Teacher’s name: Dong Thi Thao Trang
Date: Tuesday August 23th, 2016
Class: 7A7


LESSON PLAN
UNIT 3: COMMUNITY SERVICE
Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED
A HELPING HAND


Class description:
26 boys, 13 girls. All Vietnamese. They are all students and they get on well together as a class.
Most of them had actually studied some English at primary schools.

Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
- Understand and use some new words relating to community service and volunteer work: community, benefit, volunteer, donate, non-profit organization, make a difference
- Review the simple past and present perfect tense:
Structures: Tenses – the past simple: S+ V2/ V-ed + O
- Talk about volunteer work.
- Aware of the value of the work they do for community.
=> Educational factor: to make students be volunteers

Time: 45 minutes

Teaching aids: pictures, cassette, tape/ CD

Anticipated problems
- Problem: Ss may not sufficient vocabulary to speak
- Solution: Support them some new word related to the vocabulary

Procedure:
Stabilization(1’) Greeting and checking attendance
Checking up(5’): Corrects the fifteen minute test
New lesson:






Steps
Time
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Purpose

1.Lead-in :

4’
- Shows the pictures : What do these people do ?







- Leads to the new lesson

- Pay attention to teacher and then answer
- Students should comment whether these activities are useful to the community or not.
- To create excited for students.

- To elicit new lesson


2.Pre- practice:

2’
a- Vocabulary:
- Teaches vocabulary:
+community(n):(synonym) :cộng đồng
+benefit (n) : (synonym) : lợi ích
+ volunteer (n ),(v) ( explain) : đi tình nguyện , tình nguyện viên
+ non-profit organization( n )
( explain): tổ chức phi lợi nhuận
+ donate(v): example: hiến tặng, đóng góp
Ex: We should donate our old books and clothes for poor children
* Checking understanding of new words, using “slap the board”.
b- Structures:
- Reviews the past simple and present prefect tense
Tenses – the past simple: S+ V2/ V-ed + O
Ex: Last year we provided evening classes for street children

- Read and underline new work












-Text note and make a example sentences:
We have asked people to donate books and clothes for them



-Support students the new words related topic community service and volunteer work




-Reviews the past simple and present prefect tense

3.
Controlled-practice:
15’
3.1. Listen and read:
- Asks student to listen to the tap and read.

- Calls 3 students to read, helps them correct their pronunciation.
- Asks sts to recall information from the listening
a.Community service: ……………………….
b. Be a Buddy:……………………………
c. Go Green:……………………………..











a. Read the conversation again and tick True or False
- Asks sts to work individually then compare the answers with a partner and then discuss as a class
- Goes through each statements and asks sts how the text in the dislogue supports their answer.


b. Read the conversation again. Asnwer the questions
- Has sts look at the phrase “ make a difference “ is located in the conversation then guess the meaning

- Asks sts to think of a community garden in their neighborhood .
- Has them dissuss the questions in pairs


3.2. Look at the words in the box . can you put them in the right groups?
- Lets sts do the task in groups .
- Writes the correct answer on the board
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives

 Volunteer
Benefit
Help
Plant






Shop
Garden
Book
play
Donate
Help
Benefit
Volunteer
Recycle
Plant
Provide
Clean
Encourage
Shop
Garden
Book
Play
Tidy
Empty
Clean
Environmental










Tidy
Empty



- Draws sts’ attention to the look out
- Asks sts add some more words
3.3. Fill the gaps with the words in the box
- Asks sts to do the task individually then checks the answers as a class
1. volunteer 2. homeless people 3. donates
4. community service 5. make a difference