UNIT 6: VIET NAM: THEN AND NOW
Period 52: Lesson 7: Looking back and Project
Teacher: Nguyen Thi Thu Thuan
Watch video and name the transport system appearing in the video.
1. Complete the following word with transport system in Viet Nam then and now.
1. Complete the following word with transport system in Viet Nam then and now. Suggestion:
2. Fill in each blank with one word/phrase.
4. Complete the sentences with appropriate adjectives.
2. Fill in each blank with one word/phrase.
Answer:
4. Complete the sentences with appropriate adjectives. Answer:
3. Read the passage and fill in each blank with a suitable word from the box.
I used to go to a school for the gifted in Ho Chi Minh City. My house was far away, so I had to live with my relatives. It was an (1)__________ family with ten people and a cousin of my age. My mother was worried because I came from a (2)_______ family – much smaller and less complicated. I was a very (3)__________ girl – the type of person who never does what they are told. I was even envious when my cousin got higher grades. Luckily, my relatives were actually very (4)__________ and (5)_____________ , and my cousin herself was a (6)________ girl. She didn`t get too upset by my bad behaviour. Just as (7)_______ as her mother, she was ready to lend a hand in my study and to take care of me when I was ill. After three years with them, I also learnt that to get along with members in a big family, I should learn how to (8)_______.
tolerant
nuclear
disobedient
extended
understanding
sympathetic
caring
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We had finally finished the school year and Trang asked me to go to Da Nang by train with her. I thought that (1) it was dangerous to go by ourselves since we were just fifteen. But Trang (2) was confident that she take me there safely. Moreover, our (3) parents were too busy to go with us, so they (4) were happy let us go. They even took us to Ha Noi Station and left us there with all the luggage and tickets. I (5) was still worried that we would get lost, but Trang (6) was pleased to be allowed to go on her own. We both (7) felt that it was more convenient to go by night train because we could sleep during the night. When we arrived, I (8) was astonished that the city be very different from what I saw five years earlier, and I was so relieved that we had arrived safe and sound as she promised.
5. Correct the italised text where necessary.
ANSWER


6. Role-play. Interview a travel agent about Vietnamese people’s holiday trends before and after 2000. Use the cues in the table for your interview. You may use the example to get you started. Answer:
Interviewer: Have the Vietnamese changed the way they spend their holidays over the last 20 years?
Travel agent: Considerably. For example, they’ve changed their holiday destinations.
Interviewer: So... where did they often go before 2000?
Travel agent: They often went to...
Project
1. What do you like most about each of the pictures? Why?

2. Plan a photo exhibition about school life in Viet Nam then and now. Work in groups of four. Search for information about the subject. Find photos which show the similarities and differences between then and now. Put them together with some captions as a photo exhibition.

3. Present your group`s photo exhibition to the rest of the class. Remember to say what values you`ve learned from school life in the past.
THANKS FOR WATCHING!