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Unit 1 Local Environment Lesson 1 Getting Started

This document provides information about traditional craft villages in Vietnam. It includes a picture showing various crafts like pottery, silk, lacquerware, and conical hats. It then has a conversation where Nick, Mi, and Phong discuss Bat Trang village, one of the oldest and most famous craft villages in Hanoi known for pottery. Phong explains how his grandparents and extended family have long been artisans in the village. The document also mentions other craft villages in Vietnam and the memorable experiences of learning crafts like making conical hats.

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Unit 1 Local Environment Lesson 1 Getting Started

This document provides information about traditional craft villages in Vietnam. It includes a picture showing various crafts like pottery, silk, lacquerware, and conical hats. It then has a conversation where Nick, Mi, and Phong discuss Bat Trang village, one of the oldest and most famous craft villages in Hanoi known for pottery. Phong explains how his grandparents and extended family have long been artisans in the village. The document also mentions other craft villages in Vietnam and the memorable experiences of learning crafts like making conical hats.

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UNIT 1: LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

Lesson 1: Getting started


silk   lacquerware  

conical hats   lanterns  


1. Who and what can you see in the picture?
2. Where are they?
3. What do you think the people in the picture are talking
about?
- craft (n): nghề thủ công
- craft village (n) làng nghề thủ công
- set up (v): thành lập
- workshop (n): xưởng
- memorable experience (n): trải nghiệm đáng nhớ
- take over (v): tiếp quản, kế nhiệm
- artisant (n): thợ làm nghề thủ công
- conical hat (n): nón lá
- specific region (n): vùng miền đặc trưng
- remind (v): gợi nhớ về
- handicraft (n): thủ công mỹ nghệ
- pottery (n): đồ gốm
- look round (v): tham quan
- drum (n): trống
- silk (n): lụa
- lantern (n): lồng đèn
- lacquerware (n): đồ sơn mài
- marble sculpture (n): tác phẩm điêu khắc bằng đá cẩm thạch
1. Listen and read:

Nick: There are so many pieces of pottery here,


Phong. Do your grandparents make all of them?
Phong: They can’t because we have lots of
products. They make some and other people make
the rest.
Nick: As far as I know, Bat Trang is one of the most
famous traditional craft villages of Ha Noi, right?
Phong: Right. My grandmother says it’s about 700
years old.
Mi: Wow! When did your grandparents set up this
workshop?
Phong: My great-grandparents started it, not my
grandparents. Then my grandparents took over the
business. All the artisans here are my aunts, uncles,
and cousins.
Mi: I see. Your village is also a place of interest of
Ha Noi, isn’t it?
Phong: Yes. People come here to buy things for
their house. Another attraction is they can make
pottery themselves in workshops.
Phong: Yes. People come here to buy things for
their house. Another attraction is they can make
pottery themselves in workshops.
Nick: That must be a memorable experience.
Phong: In Viet Nam there are lots of craft villages
like Bat Trang. Have you ever been to any others?
Mi: I’ve been to a conical hat making village in
Hue!
Nick: Cool! This is my first one. Do you think that
the various crafts remind people of a specific
region?
Mi: Sure. It’s the reason tourists often choose
handicrafts as souvenirs.
Phong: Let’s go outside and look round the
village…
1.a. Can you find a word/phrase that means?

1. a thing which is skillfully made with craft    


your hands
  
2. start something (a business, an
organization, etc.) set up

3. take control of something (a


business, an organization, etc.) take over  

4. people who do skilled work, making


things with their hands artisans
1.a. Can you find a word/phrase that means?

attraction   
5. an interesting or enjoyable place to
go or thing to do   

  
6. a particular place specific region    

7. make someone remember or think     remind   


about something  

8. walk around a place to see what is


there look round
1.b. Answer the following questions?

1. Where are Nick, Mi, and Phong?

2. How old is the village?

3. Who started Phong’s family workshop?

4. Why is the village a place of interest in Ha Noi?

5. Where is the craft village that Mi visited?

6. Why do tourists like to buy handicrafts as souvenirs?


1.b. Answer the following questions?
1. Where are Nick, Mi, and Phong?
They are at Phong’s grandparents’ workshop in
Bat Trang.
2. How old is the village?
It’s about 700 years old.
3. Who started Phong’s family workshop?
His great-grandparents did.
4. Why is the village a place of interest in Ha Noi?
Because people can buy things for their house and
make pottery themselves there.
5. Where is the craft village that Mi visited?
It’s in Hue.
6. Why do tourists like to buy handicrafts as souvenirs?
Because the handicrafts remind them of a specific
region.
2. Write the name of each traditional handicraft in the
box under the picture.

A. paintings     B. drums    

C. marble sculptures     D. pottery 


E.silk   F. lacquerware   

G. conical hats   H. lanterns  


3. Complete the sentences with the words/ phrases from 2
conical hat
1. The birthplace of the famous bai tho……………
is Tay Ho village in Hue.

2. If you go to Hoi An on the 15th of each lunar


month, you can enjoy the lights of many
lanterns
beautiful ……………

3. Van Phuc village in Ha Noi produces different


silk
types of ……… products such as cloth, scarves, ties,
and dresses.
3. Complete the sentences with the words/ phrases from 2
4. On the Tet holiday, many Hanoians go to Dong
paintings
Ho village to buy folk……………….. .

Pottery products of Bau Truc, such as pots


5.  ……………
and vases, have the natural colours typical of
Champa culture in Ninh Thuan.

6. Going to Non Nuoc marble village in Da Nang,


we’re impressed by a wide variety
marble sculptures
of …………………………from Buddha statues to
bracelets.
4. Quiz: WHAT IS THE PLACE OF INTERESTS?
a. Work in pairs to do the quiz.

1. People go to this area to walk, play, and relax.


1.park
2. It is a place where objects of artistic, cultural,
historical, of scientific interest are kept and
shown. 2. museum
3. People go to this place to see animals. 3. zoo
4. It is an area of sand, or small stones, beside the
sea or a lake. 4. beach
5. It is a beautiful and famous place in the
countryside. 5. beauty spot
»Homework

- Learn by heart the new words


- Prepare for the next lesson

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