E10-u8-reading

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A. Field
B. Farmer
C. Buffalo
D. Village gate

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A.Field
C. Buffalo
D. Village gate
B. Farmer

Thursday, November 27
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2008
Unit 8: The Story of My Village
A.
Reading

1.What are the people in the picture doing?
2. How are they working?

3. What do you think of the crop ?
4. What helps produce good crops?
Look at the picture and discuss the questions.
Before -
Reading
Tractor(n): Máy kéo
Straw(n): Rơm
Rice stubble(n): Rạ

1.The farmer are harvesting the crop
2.They are working very hard
3.It is a good/bumper crop
4.Good farming methods, modern
technology used, people word hard
Suggested Answers

- Make end meets: Đủ trang trải
- Mud (n): Bùn
- In need of something: Thiếu đủ thứ
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Farming methods (n): phương pháp
canh tác
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Brick house (n): Nhà ngói
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Thanks to =Owing to (pre): Nhờ có
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Technical high school (n): Trường TH
Kỹ thuật dạy nghề

Task 1: Match each word to its definition:
Words Definitions
1. Make ends meet a. Making one’s life better
2. In need of many things b. Have just enough money
to pay for the things that
you need
3. Bettering one’s life c. Crops to be sold, not for
use by the people who grow
it
4. Bumper crops d. Having to have many
things that you do not have
5. Cash crops e. Good crops

Task 2: Complete the following table:
Areas of
change
Before Now
House Made of straw and
mud
Radio and
TV
Farming
methods
Crops
Travel Motorbike

Answers
Areas of
change
Before Now

House Made of straw and
mud
Made of bricks
Radio and
TV
Few families had a
radio or a TV set
Many families have
a radio or TV set
Farming
methods
Old New
Crops Poor Good/bumper
Travel Motorbike

Task 3: Answer the following
questions
1. What was life in the author’s many years ago?
2. Why did the villagers want to send their children to
school and college in spite of their shortages?
3. How did the children help improve the lifestyle in
the village when they finished college or technical
high school?
4. What did an old people farmer say about the effect
of the knowledge the young people brought home?
5. What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?

Task 3: Answers
1. It was poor and simple
2. Because they hope that with an education of

science and technology their children could find a
way of bettering their lives.
3. They introduced new farming methods which
resulted in bumper crops. They also helped grow
cash crops for export.
4. He said their lives had changes a lot thanks to
the knowledge their children had brought home.
5. He told his grandchildren: "Study harder so
that you can do more for the village than your
parents did"

How can people with an education
help make the life of their
community better
Discuss the following questi on
+ Introduce new farming
methods
+ Grow cash crops for export
+ Help local people apply modern
technology in farming
+ Help community especially
young people access to ways of
entertainment

* Make sentences with new words
you have learnt
* Be ready for speaking
HOMEWORK