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COMMUNICATION Extra vocabulary
suff ered illiteracy
exporter mushrooming
Viet Nam: then and now

2 Read the posts on Viet Travel Forum (VTF) and
1 Read the posts on Viet Travel Forum (VTF) from retell them to your friends.
people who visited Viet Nam a long time ago.

Example:
Kate is from Russia. She said that she had been
to Ho Chi Minh City for the fi rst time in 1983.
Ten years later, she was amazed to see so many
motorbikes.
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3 Work in groups. Use the suggestions in the
table to write as many posts as possible about
the recent changes in Viet Nam that you have
he first time I was in Ho Chi Minh City was in 1983. heard of or read about. Remember to use
T Most people rode bicycles then and there were very adjectives or adverbs to modify the changes.
few motorbikes on the road. Ten years later, when I came
back, the city had dramatically changed, with 800,000
motorbikes and two million bicycles on the roads. PAST PRESENT
Kate from Russia
manual labour more technology and equipment

n 1995, I went back mostly agricultural more industrial production
Ito Viet Nam after production
30 years and to my few services more services
surprise, the population
was three times higher mostly grew rice export rice, co ee, cashew nuts,
but the country no longer pepper, fruit
suffered illiteracy. It had
also become one of the fewer opportunities for many opportunities for university
world’s largest exporters university education education (inside and outside the
country)
of rice, which was another
surprise for me. only wealthy families most families go on holiday
Charles from France went on holiday
went to Ha Noi in August 1997, two years after holiday inside the holiday inside and outside the
I Viet Nam joined ASEAN. The road system in Ha Noi country country
was very simple then. It has dramatically changed over extended family nuclear family
the last 18 years. Flyovers and high-rise buildings are
mushrooming!
Peter from the USA Which of the changes do you think are the most
benefi cial?

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4 Present your group’s posts to other groups.

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