Unit 3: A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
1) GETTING STARTED
Look at the picture in your book and talk about activities in the countryside.
1. A woman is watering the vegetables.
2. Some boys are swimming in the river.
3. A girl is collecting the eggs.
4. People are harvesting.
5. A man is feeding the pig.
6. A man is plowing with his buffalo.
7. An boy is sitting on the back of the buffalo and flying the kite.
8. Some boys are playing football.






2)LISTEN AND READ
Main Vocabulary:
banyan: cây đa
entrance: lối vào
shrine: điện thờ
river bank: bờ sông
Read the paragraph
a) True or False. Check (x) the boxes (in your book). Correct the false sentence.
Ba and his family had a two-day trip to their home village.
Many people like going there for their weekends.
There is a small bamboo forest at the entrance to the village.
Liz had a snack at the house of Ba`s uncle.
There is a shrine on the mountain.
Everyone had a picnic on the mountain.
Everyone left the village late in the evening.
Liz had a videotape to show the trip to her parents.
Liz wants to go there again.


b) Answer these question.

1. Where is Ba`s village?
-> It`s about 60 kilometer to the north of Ha Noi.
2. How did Ba and his family get to the village?
-> They got there by bus.
3. Where is the banyan tree?
-> It`s at the entrance to the village.
4. What did they see on the mountain.
-> They saw the shrine of a Vietnamese hero.
5. Where did they have their picnic.
-> They had their picnic on the river bank.
6. What did Liz do to show the trip to her parents?
-> She took a lot of photos.
7. What does Liz wish?
-> She wishes she could visit Ba`s village again someday.