Bài giảng Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 Global Success - Unit 2: Life in the countryside - Lesson 1: Getting started

 Unit 2 LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
 LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
 Last summer holiday WARM-UP
 Answer the questions: 1. What did you do last summer?
 2. What is the video about?
 LIFE IN THE 
COUNTRYSIDE PRESENTATION
combine harvester (n)
 /kəmˈbaɪn ˈhɑːvɪstər /
 mỏy gặt PRESENTATION
paddy field (n)
 /ˈpổdi ˌfiːld/
 cỏnh đồng lỳa PRACTICE
 1 Listen and read.
Nick: You look great with a tan, Mai!
Mai: Thank you. I’ve just come back from a very enjoyable summer holiday.
Nick: Really? Where did you stay?
Mai: I stayed at my uncle’s house in a small village in Bac Giang Province.
Nick: What did you do there?
Mai: A lot of things. It was harvest time. The villagers were harvesting rice with a combine harvester. I 
helped them load the rice onto a truck. Then we unloaded the rice and dried it.
Nick: Sounds great!
Mai: And sometimes I went with the village children to herd the buffaloes and cows. I made friends with 
them on my first day.
Nick: Were they friendly?
Mai: Yes, they were. They took me to the paddy fields to fly kites. And in the evening, we played traditional 
games like bamboo dancing and dragon-snake.
Nick: Oh, I envy you!
Mai: Things move more slowly there than in our city, but people seem to have a healthier life. PRACTICE
 2 Read the conversation again and choose the correct answer to each question.
3. During harvest time, people harvest rice by ______.
A. hemselves B. using a truck C. using a combine harvester
4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the conversation?
A. Mai made friends with the village children on her first day.
B. Mai and the village children played traditional games.
C. Nick doesn’t like what Mai and the village children did. PRACTICE
 3 Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box.
 paddy field herd harvest time load combine harvester
1. It took them an hour to ______________ all the goods onto the truck.
2. Nowadays, people in my village use a ____________________ to harvest their rice and 
separate the grains from the rest of the plant.
3. Today it is my turn to _________________ the cows.
4. A place in which people grow rice is called a ____________________.
5. A busy time when people cut and gather their crops is called __________________. PRODUCTION
5 Work in pairs. Ask and answer about the pictures in 4.
A: What are they doing in picture a?
B: They’re ploughing a field.
  CONSOLIDATION
 2 Homework
 ⮚ Do exercises in the workbook.