Unit4: Getting started+Líten &read

Period 21
UNIT 4: OUR PAST
Lesson 1:
Getting started, Listen and Read

I. GETTING STARTED
Look at the picture. Write the names of the things
that do not belong to the past.

Things that do not belong to the past
Modern clothes /
school uniforms
The mobile phone
TheTV
The lighting fixture
The stereo

Vocabulary:
- (to) look after:
- equipment (n)
- (to) light - lit
- (a) folktale
- traditional (adj.)
Chăm sóc
Thiết bị
Châm, thắp
Chuyện dân gian
Truyền thống
II. Listen and read

CHECK VOCABULARY
What and Where
folktale
Light – lit equipment
look after
traditional
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II. Listen and read
Nga and her Grandma
What are they talking about?
They are talking about the past

1. Practice the dialogue with a partner.

a) Where did Nga’s grandmother use to live?
=> She used to live on a farm
Eg: I used to live in Ha Noi, but now I live in Hue
Dùng để nói về thói quen thường làm trong quá khứ
nhưng không còn ở hiện tại.
* Structure:
Khẳng định: S + used to + V (inf)
Phủ định: S + didn’t use to + V (inf)
Câu hỏi: (Wh) Did + S + use to + V (inf)?

b) Why didn’t she go to school?
Because she had to stay at home and help her mom.
(She used to look after her younger brothers and sisters.)
c) What did Nga’s great-grandmother use to do?

d) What did Nga’s great - grandmother and great - grand
father do after dinner?
Her great-grandmother used to lit the lamp and her great-
grandfather used to tell them stories.
e) What did Nga ask her grandmother to do at the end
of the conversation?
She asked her grandmother to tell her the tale “The Lost
Shoe”.
2. Work with a partner. Answer the following questions.
She used to cook the meals, clean the house and
wash the clothes.

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F O
c. Mom had to do everything without the
help of modern equipment.
f. Traditional stories are great.
e. The best one was
The Lost Shoe
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d. My father used to tell us stories.
b. There wasn’t any electricity.
a. I used to live on a farm.
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Fact: (thực tế) Opinion: (ý kiến cá nhân)
Eg: F: This flower is red

O: This is the most beautiful flower
3. Fact or Opinion? Check () the boxes.

She / play soccer
She used to play soccer.
Make sentences, using ( used to + V )

Make sentences, using ( used to + V )
They / skip rope
They used to skip rope

Make sentences, using ( used to + V )
She / cry at night
She used to cry at
night

Make sentences, using ( used to + V )
They / play games
They used to play
games

HOMEWORK
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Learn by heart new words and the
structure “used to”.
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Practice the dialogue again at home.
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Prepare: Unit 4: SPEAK + LISTEN
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Make five things you used to do.