Good morning!
Everybody
Which season is harvest time in?
What do the farmers do?
What do the children do?

Buffalo-drawn cart:
Go herding = herd (v):
Load (v):
Harvest time (n):
UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
Lesson 1: Getting started
It’s harvest time.
New words:
a. Are these sentences true (T ) or fasle (F)
Nguyen didn’t think country life could be
so interesting.
2. Nguyen never joins the boys in herding the
buffaloes.
3. Rice is transported home on trucks.
4. Nick would like to visit the countryside at
harvest time.
5. Nguyen thinks life in the city is faster than
that in the countryside.
T
F
X
X
X
X
X
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sometimes
buffalo-drawn carts
b. Answer the questions.
Where is Nguyen now?

2. When was he able to make new friends?

3. What is Nguyen’s kite like?

4. Who is Nguyen probably staying with?

5. Does Nick want to be there with Nguyen?

He’s in the countryside.
Yes, he does.
It’s big and colourful.
Right on his first day there.
His grandfather.
c. Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
When a thing has lots of bright colours, it is……….
When people are not in a hurry, they………………
A busy time when people collect their crops is called..

A place where rice grows is called is………………..
My brother is taking his buffaloes out to feed them. He’s

6. Rice is loaded onto a ………………to transport it home.
colourful
move slowly
harvest time
paddy field
herding
buffalo-drawn cart
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He likes it.
‘… it’s more exciting than I expected.’
‘It (the kite) looks great up there in the sky.’
‘I live more happily here, and there’s still a lot more to explore.’
2. Look at the pictures and say out the activities.
Loading the rice
Drying the rice
Herding buffaloes
Collecting water
Riding a horse
Flying a kite
3. Can you think of some more things that children do in the countryside? Make a list & then share it with your partner.

They climb trees
They go swimming in the river.
Example:
They go swimming in the river.
They go herding the buffaloes.
They skip rope.
They play hide and seek.
GAME: COUNTRYSIDE CHARADES
TEAM RED
TEAM BLUE
Riding horse
Use the activities in exercise 3, I will whisper an acitvity to one of you and you have to mine the activity for your friends to guess.
UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
Lesson 1: Getting started
It’s harvest time.