Bài giảng Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Unit 6: Viet Nam then and now - Lesson 7: Looking back (SGK mới)

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1. 1. Complete the following word web with transport systems in Viet Nam then and now. TRANSPORTATION THEN and NOW earthen road concrete road
2. 2. Fill in each blank with one word/phrase. 1. She lived in a(n) ___extended family family, so she didn’t have much privacy. 2. We live in a ___nuclear family with only my parents and me. 3. Our children didn’t have good learning ___facilities like computers, CD players, or laboratories during the 1980s. 4. ___Rubber sandals used to be an image associated with our soldiers in the past. 5. Classrooms made of mud and straw with ___trenches all around used to be common in Viet Nam during the war.
3. 3. Read the passage and fill in each blank with a suitable word from the box. tolerant disobedient sympathetic nuclear caring understanding extended share I used to go to a school for the gifted in Ho Chi Minh City. My house was far away, so I had to live with my relatives. It was an (1) ___extended family with ten people and a cousin of my age. My mother was worried because I came from a (2) ___nuclear family– much smaller and less complicated. I was a very (3) ___disobedient girl – the type of person who never does what they are told. I was even envious when my cousin got higher grades. Luckily, my relatives were actually very (4) ___sympathetic and (5) understanding___, and my cousin herself was a (6) ___tolerant girl. She didn’t get too upset by my bad behaviour. Just as (7) ___caring as her mother, she was ready to lend a hand in my study and to take care of me when I was ill. After three years with them, I also learnt that to get along with members in a big family, I should learn how to (8) ___share .
4. 4. Complete the sentences with appropriate adjectives. 1. It is ___necessary/important to value the improved living conditions we have today 2. She was ___sure/certain/hopeful the skytrain system would solve the traffic problems in the city. 3. The government is ___sure/certain/confident that our education system will be improved significantly by the year 2020. 4. We are all ___sorry/sure that pollution is getting more and more serious. 5. We were ___sorry to have heard about the poor living conditions back then. 6. I am ___convinced/sure/certain that the clanging sounds of the trams in Ha Noi will stay in our hearts forever.
5. 5. Correct the italised text where necessary. We had finally finished the school year and Trang asked me to go to Da Nang by train with her. I thought that (1) it was dangerous to go by ourselves since we were just fifteen. But Trang (2) was confident that she take me there safely. Moreover, our (3) parents were too busy to go with us, so they (4) were happy let us go. They even took us to Ha Noi Station and left us there with all the luggage and tickets. I (5) was still worried that we would get lost, but Trang (6) was pleased to be allowed to go on her own. We both (7) felt that it was more convenient to go by night train because we could sleep during the night. When we arrived, I (8) was astonished that the city be very different from what I saw five years earlier, and I was so relieved that we had arrived safe and sound as she promised. 1. no change 5. no change 2. take → could take 6. no change 3. no change 7. no change 4. let → to let 8. be → was
6. 6. Role-play. Interview a travel agent about Vietnamese people’s holiday trends before and after 2000. Use the cues in the table for your interview. You may use the example to get you started. Before 2000 After 2000 Where to go? - beaches, mountains - beaches, mountains - inside the country - inside the country When to go? summer holiday Tet holiday, summer holiday, or other national holidays How to travel coach, train, rarely by car, train, airplane around? airplane Who to go with? alone with family with family, friends