Bài giảng môn Tiếng Anh - Unit 8: The story of my village

WELCOME TO OUR ENGLISH LESSONTeacher: Nguyen ThuChu Van An High School9/12/08 Warmer: GUESSING VILLAGEELVILAGUNIT 8THE STORY OF MY VILLAGEPeriod 44: ReadingVocabularyMud (n) Straw (n):be made of + N.ñöôïc laøm töø.Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud Brick (n): gaïchtechnical high school tröôøng trung hoïc kyõ thuaätThis girl is a beggar. She has to live in poverty and shortage.Shortage (n) of Söï thieáu thoánCopy down the new wordsmud (n)Straw (n)Make ends meetPoverty (n)Shortage (n)Brick (n)Cash crop (n) crops for sell or exportFarming methodChange (v) become differentResult inLifestyle (n)Look at the picture and answer the following questions 1. What are the people in the picture doing?They are harvesting.4. What helps produce good crops?Good farming methods, good weather conditions, 2. How are they working?They are working hard3. What do you think of the crop? It is a bumper crop.The farmers areharvesting their cropsTASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B AB1- make ends meet2-in need of many things3- bettering one’s life4- bumper crops5- cash cropsmaking one’s life betterhave just enough money to pay for the things you need.crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow ithaving to have many things that you needgood cropsAnswers:1B2D3A4E5CAreas of changeIn the pastAt the presentHousesRadio & TVFarming methodsCrops Travelon foot,by cartby motorbikesTASK 2: Read the text carefully then complete the following table: old methods, by handmade of bricksmany families have radios and TV setnew methods , with machines bumper,more to sellmade of straw and mudfew families had a radio or a TV set2354681109Poor, enough to eat71- 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 3: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:Question number 1:1- What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?1- It was poor and simple.AnswerKeyQuestion number 2:2- Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?2-Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.AnswerKeyQuestion number 3:3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school? 3- They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops. They also helped the villagers grow cash crops for export.AnswerKeyQuestion number 4:4- What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?AnswerKey4- He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.Question number 5:5- What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren?AnswerKey5- He told his grandchildren: “ Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.”. POST-READING Choose the best answer for the following sentences:Many peasants find it difficult to make ends meet.Everything has changed since he returned.They apply new farming methods to get bumper crops A. Get plenty of foodB. Better their livesC. Earn enough money for livingD. Apply new farming methodA. Become oldB. Become sickC. Become betterD. Become differentA. Good cropsB. Cash cropsC. Bad cropsD. Crops for sellingHOMEWORKLearn by heart the new wordsRead the text again and translate the 1st paragraph into VietnameseDo the reading in workbook