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LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED

Last summer holiday

LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
WARM-UP

Video watching

PRESENTATION

• Task 1: Listen and read.
• Task 2: Read the conversation and choose the correct
answer to each question.
• Task 3: Complete the sentences with the words and
phrases from the box.
• Task 4: Match the activities that people living in the
countryside often do with the pictures.

PRACTICE

PRODUCTION
CONSOLIDATION

Vocabulary

• Task 5: Work in pairs. ask and answer about the pictures
in 4.
• Wrap-up
• Homework

WARM-UP
Answer the questions: 1. What did you do last summer?
2. What is the video about?

LIFE IN THE
COUNTRYSIDE

PRESENTATION

harvest (v)
/ˈhɑːvɪst/
thu hoạch

PRESENTATION

combine harvester (n)
/kəmˈbaɪn ˈhɑːvɪstər /
máy gặt

PRESENTATION

herd (v)
/hɜːd/
chăn (gia súc)

PRESENTATION

paddy field (n)
/ˈpædi ˌfiːld/
cánh đồng lúa

PRESENTATION
New words
1. harvest (v)

Pronunciation
/ˈhɑːvɪst/

Meaning
thu hoạch

2. combine harvester (n) /kəmˈbaɪn ˈhɑːvɪstər/

máy gặt

3. herd (v)

/hɜːd/

chăn

4. paddy field (n)

/ˈpædi ˌfiːld/

đồng lúa

PRACTICE

1

Listen and read.

Nick: You look great with a tan, Mai!
Mai: Thank you. I've just come back from a very enjoyable summer holiday.
Nick: Really? Where did you stay?
Mai: I stayed at my uncle's house in a small village in Bac Giang Province.
Nick: What did you do there?
Mai: A lot of things. It was harvest time. The villagers were harvesting rice with a combine harvester. I helped them load the rice onto a truck.
Then we unloaded the rice and dried it.
Nick: Sounds great!
Mai: And sometimes I went with the village children to herd the buffaloes and cows. I made friends with them on my first day.
Nick: Were they friendly?
Mai: Yes, they were. They took me to the paddy fields to fly kites. And in the evening, we played traditional games like bamboo dancing and
dragon-snake.
Nick: Oh, I envy you!
Mai: Things move more slowly there than in our city, but people seem to have a healthier life.

PRACTICE

2 Read the conversation again and choose the correct answer to each question.
1. How does Mai feel about her summer holiday?
A. She likes it.
B. She doesn't like it.
C. She thought it was fine.
2. Where did she stay during her summer holiday?
A. At her friend's house.
B. At her uncle's house.
C. At her grandparents' house.

PRACTICE

2 Read the conversation again and choose the correct answer to each question.
3. During harvest time, people harvest rice by ______.
A. themselves
B. using a truck
C. using a combine harvester
4. Mai thinks people in the countryside lead ______.
A. a healthy life
B. an exciting life
C. an interesting life

PRACTICE

3 Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box.
paddy field

herd

harvest time

load

combine harvester

1. It took them an hour to ___________ all the goods onto the truck.
2. Nowadays, people in my village use a __________________ to harvest their
rice and separate the grains from the rest of the plant.
3. Today it is my turn to __________ the cows.
4. A place in which people grow rice is called a _______________.
5. A busy time when people cut and gather their crops is called _____________.

PRACTICE

4 Match the activities that people living in the countryside often do with the pictures.
1. unloading rice
4. feeding pigs

2. ploughing fields
5. catching fish

3. milking cows
6. drying rice

PRODUCTION

5

Work in pairs. ask and answer about the pictures in 4

Example:
A: What are they doing in picture
a?
B: They're ploughing fields

CONSOLIDATION

1 Wrap-up
What have we learnt in this lesson?
 identify the topic of the unit
 use lexical items related to life in the countryside
 identify the language features that are covered in the unit

CONSOLIDATION

2

Homework

 Do exercises in the workbook.
 Start preparing for the Project of the unit.

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