Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 8 - Period 7: Week 7 Read about life in the countryside

Nội dung text: Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 8 - Period 7: Week 7 Read about life in the countryside

1. I. REVISION: Kim’s game - Look at the pictures and remember.(6 pictures) - Each person in each group writes only 1 activity as fast as posible. - In 1 minute if which group writes more correct activities is the winner.
2. Flying a kite
3. Herding buffaloes
4. Riding a horse
5. Collecting water
6. drying the rice
7. loading the rice
8. 1. flying a kite 4. collecting water 2. herding buffaloes 5. drying the rice 3. riding a horse 6. loading the rice
9. Friday, September27th, 2019 Period 7: WEEK 7 Read about life in the countryside
10. II. Practice: Exercise 1: Complete the sentences with the words in the box. harvest time, picking, noisy, herd, inconvenient, peaceful 1. When summer comes, we enjoy fruitspicking 2. Our village has no running water, which is very inconvenient 3. A busy time when people collect their crop is called harvest time 4. You can relax in the countryside. It’s so peaceful 5. In the countryside, children learn to theherd cattle when they are small.
11. Exercise 2. Read the passae and do. My village We are Khmer Krom, one of the biggest ethnic groups in the south of Viet Nam. We live by farming- Mostly rice- and fishing on the Mekong river. Life is sometimes hard because our work depends heavily on the weather. When it is not harvest time, the men of the village go fishing from early morning and don’t return until late afternoon. By the time the fishing boats return, most of the village women will be waiting for them on the river bank. They wait to buy the fish, which they will later sell at the local market or bring to nearby town for a higher price. We children will be there too. We love running around the beach and waiting for the boats to come in. Our most important festival of the year is Chol Chnam Thmay, which celebrates the New Year. It Falls in mid- April. Every family tries to prepare well for the festival activities. The community also visits and helps the poor families so that everybody has a happy New Year.
12. A. Are these sentences true (T ) or fasle (F) T F 1. Khmer Krom live by farming- mostly rice- and fishing on X the Mekong river. 2. The life there is very easy. X 3. The men of the village go fishing in late morning. X 4. The women and children wait on the river bank to buy the fish. X 5. The community helps the poor families because they want everybody to have a happy life. X
13. B. Read again and answer the questions. 1. Where do the Khmer Krom live? 2. Why is life hard for the Khmer? 3. What do the women do with the fish they buy from the fishment? 4. What is Chol Chnam Thmay?
14. MONKEYS COMPETITION
15. 3. What do the women do with the fish they buy from the fishment? They sell them at the local market or the town nearby for for a higher price.
16. 1. Where do the khmer Krom live? In the south of Viet Nam.
17. 4. What is Chol Chnam Thmay? It’s a celebration of the new year.
18. 2. Why is life hard for the Khmer? Because their work depends heavily On weather.
19. 4. What is Chol Chnam Thmay? It’s a celebration of the new year.
20. You can climb.
21. You can’t climb.
22. Exercise 3: Use”used to” to make sentences. - Work in groups to make sentences about your parents used to do in the past in your village but now they don’t do. Eg: They used to go swimming in the river.
23. III. Homework: - Do again all the exercises in the notebooks. - Prepare some sentences about the changes of life in the countryside.