silk  

conical hats  

lacquerware
/ˈlækəweə(r)/   

lanterns  

Unit 1:
LOCAL ENVIRONMENT
Lesson 1: Getting started:
A visit to a traditional craft village

1. Who and what can you see in the picture?
2. Where are they?
3. What do you think the people in the picture are talking
about?

Pottery: đồ gốm

Conical hat : nón
lá

Workshop : xưởng
làm việc

Handicraft : đồ thủ công

1. Start something ( a business,
an organization...) :
2. Take control of something.
3. People who do skilled work,
making things with their
hands.
4. An interesting or enjoyable
place to go or thing to do.
5. A particular place.
6. Make someone remember or
think about something.
7. Walk around a place to see
what is there.

1. Set up (thành lập)
2. Take over ( tiếp quản)
3. Artisans (nghệ nhân)
4. Attraction (điểm thu hút)
5. Specific region (vùng riêng
biệt)
6. Remind (tưởng nhớ)
7. Look around ( đi dạo xung
quanh)

I. Vocabulary:
1. Pottery
2. Set up
3. Workshop
4. Take over
5. Attraction
6. Conical hat
7. Remind
8. Specific region
9. Handicraft
10. Look around

(n) đồ gốm
(v) thành lập
(n) xưởng
(v) tiếp quản
(n) sự thu hút
(n) nón lá
(v) tưởng nhớ
: vùng miền riêng
(n) đồ thủ công
(v) đi dạo xung quanh

1. Listen and read:

Nick: There are so many pieces of pottery here,
Phong. Do your grandparents make all of them?
Phong: They can't because we have lots of products.
They make some and other people make the rest.
Nick: As far as I know, Bat Trang is one of the most
famous traditional craft villages of Ha Noi, right?
Phong: Right. My grandmother says it's about 700
years old.
Mi: Wow! When did your grandparents set up this
workshop?

Phong: My great-grandparents started it, not my
grandparents. Then my grandparents took over the
business. All the artisans here are my aunts, uncles,
and cousins.
Mi: I see. Your village is also a place of interest of Ha
Noi, isn't it?
Phong: Yes. People come here to buy things for their
house. Another attraction is they can make pottery
themselves in workshops.
Phong: Yes. People come here to buy things for their
house. Another attraction is they can make pottery
themselves in workshops.

Nick: That must be a memorable experience.
Phong: In Viet Nam there are lots of craft villages
like Bat Trang. Have you ever been to any others?
Mi: I've been to a conical hat making village in Hue!
Nick: Cool! This is my first one. Do you think that
the various crafts remind people of a specific region?
Mi: Sure. It's the reason tourists often choose
handicrafts as souvenirs.
Phong: Let's go outside and look round the village…

1.a. Can you find a word/phrase that means?
1. a thing which is skillfully made with
your hands

craft    
  

2. start something (a business, an
organization, etc.)
3. take control of something (a business,
an organization, etc.)
4. people who do skilled work, making
things with their hands

set up

take over  

artisans

1.a. Can you find a word/phrase that means?
5. an interesting or enjoyable place to go
or thing to do

attraction   
  
  

6. a particular place

specific region    

7. make someone remember or think
about something

    remind   
 

8. walk around a place to see what is
there

look round

1.b. Answer the following questions?
1.

Where are Nick, Mi, and Phong?

2.

How old is the village?

3.

Who started Phong's family workshop?

4.

Why is the village a place of interest in Ha Noi?

5.

Where is the craft village that Mi visited?

6.

Why do tourists like to buy handicrafts as souvenirs?

1.b. Answer the following questions?
1.
2.

Where are Nick, Mi, and Phong?
They are at Phong's grandparents' workshop in Bat Trang.
How old is the village?
It is about 700 years old.

3.

Who started Phong's family workshop?
His great-grandparents did.

4.

Why is the village a place of interest in Ha Noi?
Because people can buy things for their house and make
pottery themselves there.
Where is the craft village that Mi visited?
It is in Hue.
Why do tourists like to buy handicrafts as souvenirs?
Because the handicrafts remind them of a specific region.

5.
6.

2. Write the name of each traditional handicraft in the
box under the picture.

A. paintings    

C. marble sculptures    

B. drums    

D. pottery 

E.silk  

G. conical hats  

F. lacquerware
/ˈlækəweə(r)/   

H. lanterns  

3. Complete the sentences with the words/ phrases from 2

conical hat
1. The birthplace of the famous bai tho ……………….
  is Tay Ho village in Hue.
2. If you go to Hoi An on the 15th of each lunar month,
you can enjoy the lights of many
lanterns
beautiful ……………………….
3. Van Phuc village in Ha Noi produces different types
silk
of ……………. products
such as cloth, scarves, ties, and
dresses.

3. Complete the sentences with the words/ phrases from 2
4. On the Tet holiday, many Hanoians go to Dong Ho
paintings
village to buy folk……………….. .
Pottery products of Bau Truc, such as pots and
5.  ……………
vases, have the natural colours typical of Champa
culture in Ninh Thuan.
6. Going to Non Nuoc marble village in Da Nang,
we're impressed by a wide variety
marble sculptures
of …………………………from
Buddha statues to
bracelets.

4. Quiz: WHAT IS THE PLACE OF INTERESTS?
a. Work in pairs to do the quiz.
1. People go to this area to walk, play, and relax.
2. It is a place where objects of artistic, cultural,
historical, of scientific interest are kept and shown.
3. People go to this place to see animals.
4. It is an area of sand, or small stones, beside the sea or
a lake.
5. It is a beautiful and famous place in the countryside.
1.park
4. beach

2. museum
5. beauty spot

3. zoo

»Homework
- Learn by heart the new words
- Prepare for the next lesson