BASIC COURSE
A READING LESSON
Unit 8: the Story of My Village
Contents of the Lesson
Network
Vocabulary
Matching
Charting
Questions and Answers
Discussion
Assignment
Giáo viên: Lê thị Mỹ Dung
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The Story of My Village
Unit 8
- mud
(n) bùn
- straw
(n) rơm, rạ
New Vocabulary
- brick
(n) viên gạch
- shortage
This girl is a beggar. She has to live in poverty and shortage.
(n) sự thiếu thốn
? Copy down your new words
Match the words in A with their definitions in B
Answers:
1- What are the people in the picture doing?
2- How are they working?
3- Is it a bumper crop?
4- Are they happy with their work?
Look at the picture and answer the following questions
They are harvesting their crops.
Yes, it is.
They are working very hard and industriously
Yes, they are.
Now, Open your books and listen to the reading!
Listen
Pause
Read the text carefully then complete the following table:
old methods
Made of bricks
Many families have
radios and TV set
new
farming methods
bumper
made of straw
and mud
Few families had a
radio or a TV set
2
3
5
4
6
8
1
10
9
poor
7
1- What was life like in the author`s village many years ago?

2- Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?

3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?

4- What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?

5- What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
Question number 1:
1- What was life like in the author`s village many years ago?
1- It was poor and simple.
Answer
Key
Question number 2:
2- Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?
2-Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.
Answer
Key
Question number 3:
3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?
3- They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops. They also helped the villagers grow cash crops for export.
Answer
Key
Question number 4:
4- What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?
4- He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.
Answer
Key
Question number 5:
5- What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
5- He told his grandchildren: " Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did."
Answer
Key
1- It was poor and simple.
2-Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.
3- They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops. They also helped grow cash crops for export.
4- He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.
5- He told his grandchildren: " Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did."
Answer Keys
DISCUSSION
Discuss the changes in your village basing on the following aspects:
Example: Nowadays many people in my village go to
the universities or colleges.
HOMEWORK:
1- Practise reading the text for fluency,

2- Learn all the vocabularies by heart,

3- Write a short paragraph about the changes in your own village.

4- Prepare for the next lesson: SPEAKING.
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