*Complete the following word web with
transport systems in Viet Nam then and now.
TRANSPORTATION
THEN and NOW
earthen road
…………………………………………………………………………
concrete road
……………………………………………………………….................
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UNIT 6: VIET NAM NOW AND THEN
Lesson 7: Looking back & project
2. Fill in each blank with one word/phrase.
She lived in a(n) _____________ family, so she didn’t have much privacy.

2. We live in a ____________ family with only my parents and me.

3. Our children didn’t have good learning _____________ like computers, CD players, or laboratories during the 1980s.

4. ______________ used to be an image associated with our soldiers in the past.

5. Classrooms made of mud and straw with ___________
all around used to be common in Viet Nam during the war.
extended
nuclear
facilities
Rubber sandals
trenches
3. Read the passage and fill in each blank witha 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 behavior. 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 disobedient sympathetic nuclear
caring understanding extended share
extended
nuclear
disobedient
understanding
sympathetic
tolerant
caring
share
4. Complete the sentences with appropriate adjectives.
1. It is _________________ to value the improved living conditions we have today
2. She was _________________ the sky train system would solve the traffic problems in the city.

3. The government is _________________ that our education system will be improved significantly by the year 2020.

4. We are all __________________ that pollution is getting more and more serious.
5. We were _________________ to have heard about the poor living conditions back then.

6. I am _________________ that the clanging sounds of the trams in Ha Noi will stay in our hearts forever.
necessary/important
sure/certain/hopeful
sure/certain/confident
sorry/sure
sorry
convinced/sure/certain
5. Correct the italised text where necessary.
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.
1. no change
2. take → could take
3. no change
5. no change
6. no change
7. no change
8. be → was
4. let → to let
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.
⇒ The think I like most about the picture of students in the past is that they look simple and really hard-working even if the condition was not so good. In the picture of students at present, I like that they have many facilities for studies and the school condition is improved.
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. .... 
3. Present your group`s photo exhibition to the rest of the class. Remember to say .... 
*PROJECT
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HOMEWORK
- Learn by heart new words.
- Do all the exercises again
- Prepare: Review