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Unit 5: ILLITERACY
READING
Vocabulary
- (to) decrease
: giảm xuống
- (to) eradicate
: xóa
 Eradication (n)
- (a) campaign
: chiến dịch
- Ethnic minority
: dân tộc thiểu số
Decide the following sentences True or False.
_____1. In 2000, All Vietnamese were able to read and write through the programmes of “Universalisation of Primary Education” and “Illiteracy Eradication”.
_____2. The campaign for illiteracy eradication was an effective way to help people in remote and mountainous areas to read and write.
_____3. Volunteer students participated in the fight against illiteracy in their winter vacation.
_____5. The number of illiterate people is decreasing gradually.
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Task 1: Find the Vietnamese equivalent to the following expressions. (P. 48-textbook)
1. Universalisation of Primary Education: __________________________________
2. The Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion: __________________________________
3. Illiteracy eradication: __________________________________
4. farming techniques: __________________________________
5. family planning: _____________________
Phổ cập giáo dục tiểu học.
Hội khuyến học Việt Nam.
Xoá mù ch?.
Kỹ thuật canh tác.
Kế hoạch hoá gia đình.
Task 2: Choose the best answer for the following questions.
1. How many provinces and cities in Vietnam completed two programmes of “Universalisation of Primary Education” and “Illiteracy Eradication”.

50 B. 51 C. 60 D. 61

2. What was the rate of illiteracy in Vietnam in 2000?

A. 6% B. 16% C. 94% D. 96%
5. What year did eight hundred volunteer students participate in the campaign?

A. 2000 B. 2001 C. 2002 D. 2003

6. When did volunteer students teach illiterate people to read and write?

A. summer B. summer vacation
C. winter D. winter summer
3.What campaign was started by Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion?

Universalisation of Primary Education.
Illiteracy Eradication.
Mua He Xanh.
Anh Sang Van Hoa He.

4. How many ethnic minority students in the north took part in the campaign in 2000?

A. 600 B. 800
C. 1.200 D. 6000
7. What relevant materials did they talk?

Old farming techniques
B. new farming techniques
C. Family planning
D. B & C

8. What year did the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion decide to expand its activities to the central mountainous provinces?

A. 2000 B. 2001
C. 2002 D. 2003
9. How is the number of illiterate people in the remote and mountainous areas now?

A. Gradually going up
B. gradually increasing
C. Gradually going down
D. gradually developing

10. What will happen if more and more people take part in the struggle against illiteracy?

Illiteracy will soon be eradicated.
Illiteracy will not soon be eradicated.
Literacy will soon be eradicated.
Literacy will be soon stopped.
11. Which of the choices A, B, C, or D most adequately sums up the whole passage?

The programme of “Unversalisation of Primary Education” in Vietnam.
Illiteracy rates in Vietnam.
The fight against illiteracy.
Ethnic minority students’ education programme.
Discuss in groups the following question:

What do you think we should do to eradicate illiteracy in the remote and mountainous areas?
Open schools or build more schools.
Send volunteer teachers there.
Buy books for illiterate people.
Train local people to be teachers who will their own people.
……………………
I think we should build more schools ………..
Homework
Write a short paragraph about the activities above.
Good bye!
Thanks a lot
1. How many provinces and cities in Vietnam completed two programmes of “Universalisation of Primary Education” and “Illiteracy Eradication”.
A. 50 B. 51 C. 60 D. 61
2. What was the rate of illiteracy in Vietnam in 2000?
A. 6% B. 16% C. 94% D. 96%
3.What campaign was started by Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion?
Universalisation of Primary Education.
Illiteracy Eradication.
Mua He Xanh.
Anh Sang Van Hoa He.
4. How many ethnic minority students in the north took part in the campaign in 2000?
A. 600 B. 800 C. 1.200 D. 6000
5. What year did eight hundred volunteer students participate in the campaign?
A. 2000 B. 2001 C. 2002 D. 2003
6. When did volunteer students teach illiterate people to read and write?
A. summer B. summer vacation C. winter D. winter summer
7. What relevant materials did they talk?
A. Old farming techniques B. new farming techniques
C. Family planning D. B & C
8. What year did the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion decide to expand its activities to the central mountainous provinecs?
A. 2000 B. 2001 C. 2002 D. 2003
9. How is the number of illiterate people in the remote and mountainous areas now?
A. Gradually going up B. gradually increasing
C. Gradually going down D. gradually developing
10. What will happen if more and more people take part in the struggle against illiteracy?
Illiteracy will soon be eradicated.
Illiteracy will not soon be eradicated.
Literacy will soon be eradicated.
Literacy will be soon stopped.
11. Which of the choices A, B, C, or D most adequately sums up the whole passage?
The programme of “Unversalisation of Primary Education” in Vietnam.
Illiteracy rates in Vietnam.
The fight against illiteracy.
Ethnic minority students’ education programme.