unit 8- Reading

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Teacher: Nguyen Dinh Hung
NGOC TAO HIGH SCHOOL
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Period 43: UNIT 8
The story of my village
A. Reading
(Page 82, 83)
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Work in pairs. Look at the picture. Discuss the questions
3. What are they doing?
4. How are they working?
5. What do you think of the crop?
6. What helps produce good crops?
Before you read
1. Who are these people?
2. Where are they?
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Pre-reading vocabulary:
straw (n):
mud (n):
shortage (n):
farming method (n):
brick (n):
dry, cut stems of rice
wet, soft soil
lack of something
method of using land for growing

crops and raising animals
baked clay used for building
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Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B
A B
1. make ends meet
2. in need of many things
3. bettering one’s life
4. bumper crops
5. cash crops
a. making one’s life better
b. have just enough money to pay
for the things that you need
c. crops to be sold, not for use
by the people who grow it
d. having to have many things that
you do not have
e. good crops
While you read