Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 10 (Sách cũ) - Unit 8: The story of my village - A. Reading

Welcome to our classWelcome to our classWarm up:Unit 8: The story of my villageTuesday, November 29th, 2016A. ReadingNguyen Tran Nhu HuynhClass: 10A6Look at the picture and answer the questions (P.82)1. What are the people doing? - collecting the harvest2. How are they working?- working hard 3. What helps produce good crops?- good farming method, weather, effort I. Vocabulary:- mud [mʌd] (n):bùn- brick [brik] (n):gạch- straw [strɔ:] (n):rơm- farming method ['fɑ:miη] ['meθəd](n):phương pháp canh tác- export ['ekspɔ:t] (n): sự xuất khẩu, hàng xuất khẩu. ≠ import [‘impɔ:t]- Bumper crop: mùa bội thu- Cash crop: nông sản thương mại- Harvest /ˈhɑːvɪst/ (n/v) mùa gặtII. While - reading:Task 1: Matching the words in column A with theirs definitions in column BAB1. make ends meeta. making one’s life better2. in need of many thingsb. have just enough money to pay for the things that you need3. bettering one’s lifec. crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it4. bumper cropsd. having to have many things that you do not have5. cash cropse. good crops.Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes in the village. Complete the following table.Areas of changeBefore Nowhouses made of straw and mudradio and TVfarming methodscrops travel by motorbike made of brickfew families had a radio or a TV setmany families have a radio or a TV setold new poor good / bumperon footTask 3:Answer the following 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?4. What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home? 5. What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?1. It was poor and simple. (line number 1)2. Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives. (line 5,6,7,8)3. They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops. They also helped the villagers grow cash crops for export.(Paragraph 2, line 2,3)4. He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.(Paragraph 3, line 1,2)5. He told his grandchildren: “ Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.(Paragraph 3, line 2, 3)III. Post – reading: