UNIT 4: OUR PAST
LESSON 1:
Getting Started + Listen and Read
GETTING STARTED
Look at the picture. Write the names of the things that do not belong to the past:
VIET NAM 100 YEARS AGO
stereo
television
lighting fixture
school uniform
school bag
mobile phone
to look after
to light the lamp
modern equipment
I/ Vocabulary:
- to look after: trông nom, chăm sóc
to light the lamp: thắp đèn
modern equipment: thiết bị hiện đại
folktale: truyện dân gian
used to: đã từng, thường
- Who are they?
- They are Nga and her grandmother.
Where did Nga’s grandmother used to live
in the past?
2) Why didn`t she go to school?
- She lived on a farm.
- Because she had to stay home and help her Mom.
* T/F statements:
Nga used to live on the farm.

2) Nga`grandma didn`t go to school.

3) She had an easy and happy life
when she was young.

4) There wasn`t any modern equipment
at her time.

5) "The lost shoe" is a short story.
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What did Nga`s great-grandmother use to do?
2) What did Nga`s great-grandmother and great-grandfather do after dinner?
- She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes.
- She lit the lamp and he told stories.
- Nga asked her grandmother to tell the tale.
3) What did Nga ask her grandmother to do at the end of the conversation?
She used to live on a farm.
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+ used to
+V(bare)
(express an action usually happening in the past, not relating to the present )
Form:
*Word cue drill:
our grandmother / tell stories
Lan / cry at night
Vietnamese children / stay at home
Nam / get up late
*Word cue drill:
3) our grandmother / tell stories
2) Lan / cry at night
4) Vietnamese children / stay at home
1) Nam / get up late
3) Our grandmother used to tell stories.
2) Lan used to cry at night.
4) Vietnamese children used to stay at home.
1) Nam used to get up late.
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+ used to
+V(bare)
(express an action usually happening in the past, not relating to the present )
Learn by heart new words.

-Write some things that belong to the past.

-Do the exercises: 1, 2 in workbook.

-Prepare: Speak and Listen.
Homework