Week: 4
Date of teaching: 8/9/2014
Period: 16
UNIT 3: COMMUNITY SERVICE
Lesson 1: Getting started

I. Objectives.
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about community service and volunteer work.
II. Teaching aids:
- A CD, and a CD player.
III. Procedure
A. Class organization.
- Greetings.
- Checking attendance:
B. New lesson.
Time
Contents
Teacher’s activities
Ss’ activities

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1.Warm up.

‘Green Summer Campaign’
‘working for the community’
‘having a beach holiday’


2. Activities
Ex1: Questions
What can you see in the picture?
Who do you think they are?
What are they talking about?
Ss answer the questions as a class.
Recall information:
- Global Citizen is …… (the name of the radio programme).
- Hai Ba Trung School/is… (the school where Mai and Phuc go to).
- Be a Buddy is …… (the organisation that Mai is from).
- Go Green is ………(the organisation that Phuc is from).
a. Read the conversation again and tick T (true) or F (False).
1.T 2. T
3. T 4. F 5. T







b. Read the conversation again. Answer the following questions
1. Make a difference : not the same
2. It plants trees...
3. It’s a non-profit organization










2. Look at the words in the box. Can you put them in the right groups ?
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives

help
benefit
volunteer
plant
donate
help
benefit
volunteer
recycle
plant
provide
clean
encourage
clean



Look out!
There are many words that are both verbs and nouns, e.g. volunteer, plant, help, benefit…




3. Fill the gaps with the words in the box.
1. volunteer
2. homeless people
3. donates
4. community service
5. make a difference
4. Describe the pictures with the verbs in 2.
1. donate
2. plant
3. help
4. clean
5. recycle
5. Create word webs.
donate: books, blood, money, clothes, toys, etc.
Help: children, street people, old people, the poor, etc.
Clean: streets, lakes, rivers, beaches, etc.
Provide: food, attention, life skills, education, houses, help, books, etc.



6. Game: Vocabulary Ping Pong
A: provide
B: food
A: homeless people
B: help

3. Homework
-Learn by heart new vocabulary and structures
-Prepare: A closer look 1

-Ask Ss to guess which two phrases connect to each other.
-ask them why they think ‘green summer’ relates to ‘working for the community’, and what activities a person can do.
LISTEN AND READ
Ex1:
-Ask Ss to open their books to the picture. T can ask Ss prediction questions about the picture.
-Present some new words

-play the recording and have Ss follow along.
-ask Ss to recall information from the listening.







a.
- run through the exercises
- ask Ss to do the exercise individually
- go through each statement and ask Ss how the text in the dialogue supports their answers.
-write the correct answers on the board.

b. -Have Ss look at where the phrase’ make a difference’ is located in the dialogue
-Ask Ss to think about how books and clothes can help to better the children’s lives. If needed, explain to Ss that ‘make a difference’ means doing something good, especially to improve a situation.