GUESSING WORDS
1. Farmer
2. Village
3. Story
Watch the video clip and tell the word it refers to

UNIT 8:

QUESTIONS:
1. What are they doing ?
2. How are they working ?
3. What do you think of the
crop ?
4. What helps produce
good crops ?
good rice seed good farming
methods
farmers efforts/
working hard
fertilizers pesticides/
herbicides
farming
machines
(harvesting)
thu hoùach
(vuù muứa)
(gioỏng)
(phửụng phaựp
canh taực)

resulted in bumper crops. …

Task 2: Complete the following table
Areas of
changes
Before Now
houses
made of straw and mud
radio and
TV
farming
methods
crops
travel
(vieọc ủi laùi)
motorbike
made of brick
few families had a radio
or a TV set
new
good/ bumperpoor
old
many families have a
radio or a TV set
(laứm baống rụm, raù)
(gaùch, ngoựi)

Task 3 :
Answer the questions:
1. What was life in the author’s village many years


2. Why did the villagers want to send
their children to school and college in
spite of their shortages ?

Because they hoped that with an
education of science and
technology, their children could
find a way of bettering

Lucky animal !

3. How did the children help improve the
lifestyle in the village when they finished
college or technical high school ?
They introduced new farming methods, which
resulted in bumper crops. They also helped grow
cash crops for export.

4. What did an old farmer say about the
effect of the knowledge the young people
brought home ?
He said their lives had changed a
lot thanks to the knowledge their
children had brought home.

5. What exactly did he tell his
grandchildren ?
He told his grandchildren: “study harder
so that you can do even more for the