Week: 15 Date of preparation: 26/11/2016
Period: 47 Date of teaching: / /2016

UNIT 8. THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE
A. Reading
I. Aim: Improve Ss’ reading skill
1. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to
- Learn more new words to talk about their community.
- Talk about changes in the life of community.
2. Skill: reading for specific information, matching
II. Methods: Integrating, mainly communication.
III. Language contents: make ends meet, straw, mud, farming method. …
IV. Teaching aids: chalk, board, textbook, …
V. Procedure:
1. Settlement: Greeting the class and checking the Ss’ attendance.
2. New lesson: UNIT 8 – A. READING
Contents
T and Ss’ activities
Abilities & qualities

. Warm up (3’)
* Questions:
1. What the people in the picture doing?
2. How are they working?
3. What do you think of the crop?
4. What helps produce good crops?
* Suggested answers:
1. They are harvesting crops.
2. They are working hard.
3. The crop is good.
4. New farming methods/ technology.

- T asks Ss to look at the picture in textbook on page 82 and answer the four questions.
- Ss look at the picture and give their answers.
- T listens to Ss answers and comments, introduces new lesson.

A: To communicate in English

II. Before you read (10’)
* Vocabulary:
- make ends meet (phv)
- to be in need of (phv) = need (v)
Ex: They are in need of money to continue going to school.
- straw (n)
- mud (n)
- crop (n)
- result (v)
- farming method (n)
- bumper crop (n)
- cash crop (n)
- brick (n)
- thanks to = due to
- knowledge (n)
- better someone’s life

- T provides new words, give examples or cues for Ss to get meanings, or give meanings directly.
- Ss listen to T’s cues and guess the meanings.
- T pronounces vocabulary correctly and asks Ss to repeat in chorus.
- Ss write down the new words and listen to T.
- T asks Ss repeat after T some times, then call 3-4 Ss to repeat, listens and corrects their pronunciation.
- Ss repeat after T, then volunteer to repeat individually, listen to T’s comments and correct their pronunciation.
A: self learning
Q: reading skill

III. While you read (20’)
Task 1. Match a word in A with its definition in B
1. make ends meet = b. have just enough money to pay for the things that you do need.
2. in need of many things = d. having to have many things that you do not have.
3. bettering one’s life = a. making one’s life better.
4. bumper crops = e. good crops.
5. cash crops = c. crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it.

Task 2. Complete the table
Areas of change
Before
After

house
Made of straw and mud
Made of bricks

Radio and TV
Few families had a radio or a TV set
Many families had a radio or a TV set

Farming methods
old
new

crops
poor
Good/ bumper

travel
On foot
By motorbikes


Task 3. Answer the questions
1. It was poor and simple.
2. Because they hope 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 helped the villagers grow and 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 harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents do.”

- T has Ss read the passage and the definition in B carefully, then match a word in A with its definition in B.
- T has Ss to give their answers on the board, asks for Ss’ translation and corrects.
- Ss do the task, give answers, listen to T’s comments and correct their answers.

- T asks Ss to read the passage again, note the changes in the village and complete the table in the task.
- Ss read the passage again, then complete the table with the information that they find