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1、Lesson ThreeTEXT AMessage of the Land Pira SudhamPre-class Work IRead the text once for the main idea. Do not refer to the notes dictionaries or the glossaryyet.Yes, these are our rice fields. They belonged to my parents and forefathers. The land is
2、morethan three centuries old. I'm the only daughter in our family and it was I who stayed with myparents till they died. My three brothers moved out to their wives' houses when they gotmarried. My husband moved into our house as is the way with us in
3、 Esarn. I was then eighteenand he was nineteen. He gave me six children. Two died in infancy from sickness. The rest, twoboys and two girls, went away as soon as we could afford to buy jeans for them. Our oldestson got a job as a gardener in a rich m
4、an's home in Bangkok but later an employment agencysent him to a foreign land to work. My other son also went far away. One of our daughters is working in a textile factory in Bangkok, and the other has a job in astore. They come home to see us now a
5、nd then, stay a few days, and then they are off again.Often they send some money to us and tell us that they are doing well. I know this is notalways true. Sometimes, they get bullied and insulted, and it is like a knife piercing my heart. It'seasier
6、 for my husband. He has ears which don't hear, a mouth which doesn't speak, and eyesthat don't see. He has always been patient and silent, minding his own life. All of them remain my children in spite of their long absence. Maybe it's fate that sent
7、themaway from us. Our piece of land is small, and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after yearand, like us, getting old and exhausted. Still my husband and I work on this land. The soil is notdifficult to till when there is a lot of rain, but in
8、 a bad year, it's not only the ploughs that breakbut our hearts, too. No, we two haven't changed much, but the village has. In what way? Only ten years ago, youcould barter for things, but now it's all cash. Years ago, you could ask your neighbors to
