Unit 8: THE STORY Ò MY VILLAGE (READING)

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TIẾNG ANH 10, UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE (READ)
TÁC GIẢ: TRẦN THỊ NHƯ NGỌC

Look at the following pictures
and answer the questions

What is the name of this animal?
buffalo

Where is this?
In a field

What are they doing?
They are transplanting

Who are they?
They are farmers


- export ['ekspɔ:t] (n):
dẫn đến
- farming methods ['fɑ:miη] ['meθədz](n):
* Vocabulary
- introduce [intrə'dju:s] (v): giới thiệu.
sự xuất khẩu, hàng xuất khẩu.
các phương pháp canh tác
- result (in) [ri'zʌlt] (v):

cash crop

► brick house
brick (n) [brik] :
gạch

mud (n) [mʌd] :bùn
straw (n) [strɔ:]: rơm

-
shortage(n) ['∫ :tidɔ ʒ] of :
Sự thiếu thốn
bumper crop(n):
vụ mùa bội thu

Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B.
A B
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.

thiếu thốn nhiều thứ.

cải thiện cuộc sống (của ai đó)
mùa màng bội thu.
cây trồng để thu hoa lợi.
kiếm đủ sống.
1. make ends meet
b. have just enough money to
pay for the things that you need
2. in need of many things
d. having to have many things
that you do not have
3. bettering one’s life
a. making one’s life better
4. bumper crops
e. good crops.
5. cash crops
c. crops to be sold, not for use
by the people who grow it

Years ago the villagers were still poor
*
*
Although the villagers were poor, they sent their
children to school or college
*
*
Today, the villagers live in many
houses
*
Villagers’ lives have become better thank
to new farming methods

*
*
T
Many years ago the villagers’ lives were not
simple.
Task 2: Decide these statements are True (T) or False (F).
F
T
F
T
straw
brick

TASK 3: Read the text carefully then complete the following
table:
Areas of
change
Before Now
Houses
Radio & TV
Farming
methods
Crops
Travel
made of straw
and mud
made of bricks
Few families had a
radio or a TV set
Many families had

radios and TV set
old methods,
by buffalo
machine/
new methods
poor/ enough to eat
bumper/
more to sell
on foot/by bikes
by motorbikes

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

1- What was life like in the author’s village
many years ago?
It was poor and simple.
Key

2.Why did the villagers want to send their children to
school and college in spite of their shortage?


Because they hoped that with an education of
science and technology, their children could find
a way of bettering their lives.

3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the
village when they finished college or technical high school?
 They introduced new farming methods which resulted in
bumper crops. They also helped the villagers grow cash
crops for export.

4- What did an
old farmer say
about the effect
of the knowledge
the young people
brought home?
Key
He said :”Our lives have
changed a lot thanks to the
knowledge our children brought
home”.

5- What exactly
did the old farmer
tell his
grandchildren?
Key


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What will you do to help
your village when you
have the chance?

Build more big and convenient houses

Build a new stadium for children