grade 10- unit8- reading

Unit 8: The Story of My Village
Lesson 1 – Reading
Date: 27/11/2009
Class: 10A1 – K64
School: Luong Ngoc Quyen senior high school
Trainee: Bui Thi Thu Huong
Coach: Ngo Kim Thuy
I. Aim:
- Students read about the changes in the country life.
II. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, students are able to know about the life of a village.
III. Skills:
- Scanning for specific information. Use the new words, which relate to the topic in
speaking, asking and answering activities.
IV. Teaching aids:
- Pictures, board, chalk, textbook, tape, cassette.
V. Procedure:
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
3’
15’
- Greeting: - Good morning!
- How are you today?
- Who is absent today?
- What is the topic of our lesson today?
1. Pre-reading
- Give Ss 2 pictures and ask:
+ Look at the picture a, what do you see? What are
they doing?
+ Look at the picture b, what do you see?
+ These pictures about the city or the country?
+ Do you prefer life in the city of life in the country?

Why?
- Now, work in pairs. Look at the picture and discuss
the questions
a. What are the people in the picture?
b. How are they working?
c. What do you think of the crop?
d. What helps produce good crops?
Vocabulary:
- Now, I will present some new words to help you
understand the text easily.
Make ends meet [ ‘meik end ‘mi:t]
In needs of [ in ‘ni:dz əv]
Straw [strɔ:](n)
Mud [mʌd](n)
Shortage ['∫ɔ:tidʒ](n)
Bumper crop ['bʌmpə krɔp](n)
Cash [kæ∫](n)
Export ['ekspɔ:t]
- Explain the meaning of new words and provide some
examples:
E.g.: - Poor people should make ends meet all year.
- She is always in needs of many things.
- There are some straws on his hair.
- The buffalo like to soak into the mud.
- Our country had been in a shortage of rice.
- Our village has a bumper crop this year.
- I have no cash with me.
- The government is going to increase the export
duty of rice this year.
- Guide Ss to read aloud the new words.

- Good morning!
- Answer.
- Answer (The topic of our lesson today is
the changing of country life).
- Answer:
+ There are some farmers with their
buffalo plough on the field.
+ There is a man who is fishing on the
river, near the river’s bank there are some
bamboo trees…
+ These pictures are about the country.
+ I prefer life in the country because it is
peaceful… (I prefer life in the city because
it is modern and excited…)
- Look at the picture and discuss the
questions
a. They are harvesting.
b. They are working hard.
c. It is good / It is a bumper crop.
d. Good farming methods/ farmers’
efforts
using farming machines, fertilizers …
- Pay attention to the new words.
- Copy new words onto the notebook
- Pay attention to the meaning of new
words and examples, copy it into
notebook
- Read after the Ts
Date:…………………….
Signature coach

Ngô Kim Thúy