Listening

1. Listen to a boy talking about changes in his village and tick (✔) the changes he mentions.

Nghe một cậu con trai nói về những thay đổi trong làng này và đánh dấu chọn những thay đổi mà cậu ây đề cập.

Click tại đây để nghe: 

A. _____ the roads in the village

B. __✓___ electrical appliances in the homes

C. __✓___ means of transport

D. _____ entertainment

E. __✓___ school

F. __✓___ visitors

2. Listen again and say if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).

Nghe lại lần nữa và nói câu nào đúng (T) hoặc sai (F).

Click tại đây để nghe: 

1. Nobody lives in an earthen house now. F

2. The village has electricity now. T

3. Horses are still the only means of transport in the village. F

4. The children used to go a long way to school. T

5. More visitors are coming to see them. T

3. Listen again and answer the questions in no more than FOUR words.

Nghe lại và trả lời những câu hỏi không hơn 4 từ.

Click tại đây để nghe: 

Audio script:

I live in a mountainous village. My parents often tell me stories about their life in the past. It’s not much like the village I can see nowadays. Some villagers now live in brick houses instead of earthen ones. Our houses are better equipped with electric fans and TVs. Thanks to the TV, we now know more about life outside our village. We don’t use oil lamps any more. We have electric lights which are much brighter. More villagers are using motorcycles for transport instead of riding a horse or walking. We — village children — no longer have to waik a long way and cross a stream to get to school, which is dangerous in the rainy season. Now there’s a new school nearby. We also have more visitors from the city. They come to experience our way of life.

1. Who often tells the boy stories about the past?

→ His parents

2. What do the villagers now know more about?

→ Life outside their village

3. Where is the new school?

→ Nearby / Near the village

4. What do the visitors want to experience in the village?

→ A nomadic life.

Writing

4. What do you think? Which change(s) in the Listening do you see as positive? Which do you see as negative?

Bạn nghĩ gì? Thay đổi nào trong bài nghe mà em thấy tích cực? Em thấy gì là tiêu cực? Hỗ trợ ý kiến của em với một lý do. Viết nó ra.

Gợi ý:

• It's good for the villagers to have TVs. Now, they can have more fun and learn more about different people and different places.
• I think electric light plays a very important part in the life of the villagers. It helps people see everything cleary at night so they can do more work.
• A nearby school is very helpful to people here because they don't have go to a long way to school, which very dangerous in rainy seasons. It will help develop the village.
• I believe that more people will go to the village to experience life here, which is a good thing for the villagers because they can develop tourism. They will have more work and more money.

5. Work in groups. Discuss and find some changes in a rural area. Make notes of the changes.

Làm theo nhóm. Thảo luận vài thay đổi ở khu vực nông thôn. Ghi chú về những thay đổi đó.

• Don’t use buffaloes for transport.
• Use motorbikes.
• Electricity & modern equipment at home.
• Some amusement centers.
• Schools near the villages.
• Access to modern technology in education: computer, projector,…
• Hospitals.

Gợi ý 1:

A: The rural area changes so much now. - Khu vực nông thôn giờ đây thay đổi nhiều quá.

B: Really? What is the change? - Vậy à? Thay đổi gì?

A: People don’t use buffaloes for transport. They use motorbikes. They have running water, electricity and TVs at home. - Người ta không dùng trâu làm để giao thông nữa. họ dùng xe máy. Họ có nước máy, điện và ti vi ở nhà.

B: Anything else? - Có gì khác không?

A: The school is near the village. There is also hospital there.- Trường học cũng ở gần làng. Cũng có thêm bệnh viện nữa.

Gợi ý 2:

A: Rural areas in our country are changing so much, aren't they?

B: Yes, they are. I think the first change is nearly each household have modem appliances like a fridge, a washing machine or a TV.

A: Exactly. Another change is you can hardly see dirt roads in the country. Modern roads have replaced them. There are even cemented roads across the rice fields.

B: I think one more change is that people in rural areas have been richer than before. They use motorbikes, even cars instead of bicycles.

6. Write a short paragraph about the changes.

Viết một đoạn văn ngắn về những thay đổi.

Ví dụ 1:

My hometown changes so much. The first change is life of local people. They have a better life because they have electricity, TV, hospital, schools nearby the village. The second change is the people There are more people and more houses here. The houses are more modern in brick not by soil anymore. The last change is the place for children to play. There is a park in the village.

Quê tôi thay đổi nhiều lắm. Thay đổi đầu tiên là cuộc sống của người dân địa phương. Họ có một cuộc sống tốt hơn bởi vì họ có điện, ti vi, bệnh viện, trường học gần làng. Thay đổi thứ hai là con người. Có nhiều người hơn và nhiều nhà hơn trong làng. Những ngôi nhà hiện đại hơn bằng gạch chứ không còn bằng đất nữa. Thay đổi cuối cùng là nơi cho bọn trẻ chơi. Có một công viên trong làng.