country
farmhouse
village
canal
crop
buffalo
Harvesting
machine
field
river
farmer
plough
THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE
unit 8
reading
Before you read
Word in pairs. Look at the picture. Discuss the question

What are the people in the picture doing ?
How are they working ?
What do you think of the crop ?
What helps produce good crops ?
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
1. What are the people in the picture doing?
-They are collecting rice from the field.
- They are harvesting.
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
2. How are they working ?
They are working hard.
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
3. What do you think of the crop ?
It’s very important.
It’s a bumper crop.
It’s good.
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
4. What helps produce good crops ?
Good farming methods
Soil / Water
Farmer’s efforts
Using modern machines
Good weather condition
Brick (n) [brik] :
Mud (n) [mʌd] :
Straw (n) [strɔ:]
technical high school
This girl is a beggar.
She has to live in poverty
and shortage.
Shortage (n) of
Sự thiếu thốn
field
river
bridge

Make ends meet : kiếm đủ tiền để sống
Be in need of : cần/thiếu cái gì
Managed to do s.t : gi?i quyết, xoay xở
Introduce (v) : giới thiệu, đưa vào (sử dụng)
Farming method : phương pháp canh tác
Result in : dẫn đến, đưa đến
Bumper crop : vụ mùa bội thu
Cash crop : vụ trồng để bán/thương phẩm
Lifestyle (n) : lối sống
Thanks to : nhờ vào/nhờ có
Better (v ) : làm cho tốt hơn, cải thiện
vocabulary
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
Task 1. The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B
1.b 2.d 3.a 4.e 5.c
Task 2: Read the text carefully then complete the following table:
old methods,
by buffalo
Made of bricks
Many families have
radios and TV set
Machine/
new methods
Bumper/
more to sell
made of straw
and mud
Few families had a
radio or a TV set
2
3
5
4
6
8
1
10
9
Poor/ enough to eat
7
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
Task 3: Answering the questions
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?
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
-Read the passage
-Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
Their lives were simple and they were in need of many things. Many people had to live in houses made of straw and mud, and a few families had a radio or a TV set.
1- What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?
However, in spite of the shortages, the villagers managed to send their children to school and college.
Unit 8 – the story of my village
Warmer : Network
Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
2- Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?
Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.
Unit 8 – The story of my village
Warmer : Network
- Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
- Read the passage
- Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?
The children have met their parents’ wishes. When they came back from college or technical high school, they introduced new farming methods, which resulted in bumper crops.
Unit 8 – the story of my village
Warmer : Network
- Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
4- What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?
A. He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.
B- she said their lives had change a lot thanks to the knowledge children had brought home.
C- Tom said his lives had change a lot thanks to the knowledge the children had brought home.
Unit 8 – the story of my village
Warmer : Network
- Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
5- What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren?
A. He told his grandchildren: “ Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.”
B. She told her grandchildren: Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.
Reported speech
Statements

1. Many peasants find it difficult to make ends meet.



2. Everything has changed since he returned.



3. They apply new farming methods to get bumper crops
A. Get plenty of food
B. Better their lives
C. Earn enough money for living
D. Apply new farming method
A. Become old
B. Become sick
C. Become young
D. Become different
A. Good crops
B. Cash crops
C. Bad crops
D. Crops for selling
Choose the best answer for the following sentences
Unit 8 – the story of my village
Warmer : Network
- Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
vocabulary
Task 1:
vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
Homework
Learn by heart new word
Read the text again and translate the 1st paragraph into Vietnamese
Do the reading in workbook
Prepare for the Speaking lesson
What will you do in the future to help people in your hometown?
A: Thanh, what do you want to do in the future?
A: If you are a doctor, what can you
do to help people in your home-
town?
B: I will kill their diseases and keep
them healthy. What about you, Lan?
A: I want to be an architect. I will build
lots of flats for local people to live in.
What will you do in the future to help people in your hometown?
B: I want to become a doctor
Unit 8 – the story of my village
Warmer : Network
- Picture describing
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Read the passage
Vocabulary
Task 1:
Vocabulary matching
Task 2 : Table completion
Task 3: Answering the questions
After you read
- Chose the best answer
Some ways to help the life of our community better.
Homework
- Introduce new farming methods
- Grow cash crops for export
- Help local people apply modern technology in farming
- Help community especially young people access to ways of entertainment
- Raise people’s awareness about food and safety and environmental hygiene.