Change the sentences from active into passive :
1. They have just introduced a new style of jeans in the USA.
2. We can solve this problem.
3. They are going to build a new bridge in the area.
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Period 13
Unit 3: A trip to the countryside

Lesson 1:
GETTING STARTED
LISTEN  READ
She is watering the vegetables
* Getting started

They are swimming in the river.

She is feeding the chickens.
They are harvesting the crop.
He is feeding the pig.
He is plowing with his buffalo.

A buffalo boy is flying his kite.

They are playing football.

a bamboo forest :
a banyan tree :
a shrine :
river bank (n) :
entrance (n) :
bụi tre
cây đa
miếu thờ
bờ sông
lối vào
1.Ba and his family had a two-day trip to their home village.
2.Many people like going there for their weekends.
3.There is a small bamboo forest at the entrance to the village.
4.Liz has a snack at the house of Ba’s uncle.
5.There is a shrine on the mountain near Ba’s village.
6.Everyone had a picnic on the mountain.
7.Everyone left the village late in the evening.
8.Liz had a videotape to show the trip to her parents.
9.Liz wants to go there again.
1.Ba and his family had a two-day trip to their home village.
2.Many people like going there for their weekends.
3.There is a small bamboo forest at the entrance to the village.
4.Liz has a snack at the house of Ba’s uncle.
5.There is a shrine on the mountain near Ba’s village.
6.Everyone had a picnic on the mountain.
7.Everyone left the village late in the evening.
8.Liz had a videotape to show the trip to her parents.
9.Liz wants to go there again.
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Ba and his family had a day trip to their home village.
There is a big old banyan tree at the entrance to the village.
People had a snack under the banyan tree.

People had a picnic on the river bank.

Liz took a lot of photos to show the trip to her parents.

RESULT
a. Where is Ba’s village?
b. How did Ba and his family get to the village?
c. Where is the banyan tree?
d. What did they see on the mountain?
e. Where did they have their picnic?
f. What did Liz do to show the trip to her parents?
g. What does Liz wish?
Questions
a. It’s 60 kilometers to the north of Hanoi.
b. Ba and his family got to the village by bus.
c. The banyan tree is at the entrance to the village.
d. They saw the shrine of a Vietnamese hero on the mountain.
e. They had a picnic on the river bank.
f. Liz took a lot of photos to show the trip to her parents.
g. Liz wishes she could visit Ba’s village again.
Answer Keys:
Ask and answer about your home village:
1. How far is it from here to your home village?
2. How often do you go there?
3. How can you get there?
4. Do you like to live in the countryside?
Prepositions of time:


Find some prepositions of time from the text:
after, on, in, at

Read the text and do the exercises again.
Write about your home village.