Unit 5: ILLITERACY
A. READING
Before you read
Work in pairs: Describe the picture using cues below.

The location and the time of the class
People in the class
The text book
The teacher
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Guessing pictures
What do these picture show/ tell you????
1) The first picture shows an evening class, learners are adults. May be it happened in 1975
2) the second picture shows a class to mountainous people
3) The third one shows a class to children from remote people
4) The forth picture shows a map of illiteracy in the world in 1999
5) The last one shows a map of the rate of adult illiteracy

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Project world about illiteracy eradication rate in over the world in 2015
An eradicate illiteracy class in remote areas
An eradicate illiteracy class before 1975 in Vietnam
A map about illiteracy eradication rate in over the world in 1999
An eradicate illiteracy class in mountainous areas
Task 1. Find the Vietnamese equivalent to the following expressions
Universalisation of Primary Education:

The Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion:

illiteracy eradication:

farming techniques

family planning

Hội khuyến học Việt Nam


Xóa nạn mù chữ


Kỹ thuật nông nghiệp

Phổ cập giáo dục tiểu học

Kế hoạch hóa gia đình
While you read
Universalisation of Primary Education
Illiteracy
Eradication
Ethnic minority
Against
Technique
Struggle
Campaign
Honorable

Phổ cập giáo dục tiểu học

Nạn mù chữ
Xóa bỏ
Dân tộc thiểu số
Chống lại, ngược lại, phản đối
Kỹ thuật, phương pháp kỹ thuật
Cuộc đấu tranh
Chiến dịch
Xứng đáng, danh giá
Task 2. Which of the choices A, B, C, or D most adequatelt sums up the whole passage
The programme of “Universalisation of Primary Education
Illiteracy rates in Vietnam
Ethnic minority students’ education programme
The fight against illiteracy
Task 3. Answer the question
What was the rate of literacy in Vietnam in 2000?
What campaign was started by the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion?
How many students participated in the campaign in 2000 and how many in 2001?
What did the students do to help cradicate illiteracy?
What will happen if more and more people take part in the strugger agains illiteracy?
The rate of literacy in Vietnam in 2000 was 94%
This was a campaign for illiteracy eradication
In 2000 is 600 people and in 2001 is 800 people
They were asked to provide reading and writing skills to illiterate
If more and more people take part in the struggle against illiteracy, illiteracy will soon be eradicated
After you read
Work in groups. Ask and answer the question

1.Are there any illiterate people in your neighborhood?
2.What do you think we should do to help them read and write?