The Story of my Village
What is it?
It consists of 11 letters
It is what we have in today’s lesson
Before you give the answer you can guess three letters
Unit 8: The Story of my Village
Lesson A: Reading
Do you often go to the countryside?
What do you think about the countryside in the past and now?
What differences are there between the countryside in the past and now (houses, furniture, roads, …)?
Vocabulary

Straw
Mud
Ex: Farmer used to mix straw with mud together to build houses
Bumper crop: good crop
Cash crop (n): crop for selling
Better (v): improve
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definition in B
1. Make ends meet
2. In need of many things
3. Bettering one’s life
4. Bumper crops
5. Cash crops
a. make one’s life better
b. have just enough money to
pay for the things that they need
c. crops to be sold, not for use
by the people who grow it
d. having to have many things that
you do not have
e. good crops
1. b
5. c
4. e
3. a
2. d
Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes in the village. Complete the following table
made of brick
few families had
many families have
old
new
poor
cash/ bumper
by motorbike
Task 3: Answer the questions
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 help 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 hard so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.”
Task 4: Discussion
What are the reasons for changes in the countryside nowadays?
Because of the changes in:
ways to think
ways to work
policies
Please listen to some music “Ve Que”
Homework:
Write a paragraph about the changes in the countryside that impress you most