School: Thanh Pho Lai Chau High School
Department: The Department of English...
UNIT 4: FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY
Total lessons for teaching: 08

I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge:
By the end of this lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Vocabulary:
+ memorize the lexical items related to the topic community developments
+ use the lexical items related to the topic community developments correctly in context.
+ understanding and using suffixes -ed vs. -ing; -ful vs. -less
- Pronunciation:
+ pronounce the stress in two-syllable words with the same spelling
+ distinguish the stress in two-syllable words with the same spelling
- Grammar:
+ distinguish the uses of the past simple and past continuous tenses
+ use the past simple and past continuous tenses with when and while
2. Skills:
- Reading skills: read for general and specific information about volunteering activities
- Listening skills: listen for general and specific information in an announcement for volunteers
- Speaking skills: express feelings, prepare and display describing pictures related to the topic in
the unit, express opinions about benefits of volunteering activities, act out a conversation, and
role play a conversation.
- Writing skills: write an application letter for volunteer work
3. Attitudes:
- Develop a sense of helping the community and awareness of voluntary work
- Be responsible to the community
II. TEACHING AIDS:
- Text book, laptop, speakers, projector, handouts
- Teaching methods: Communicative, T-WC; group works; individual
III. PROCEDURES:
Lessons
Content for teaching
1
Getting started
2
Language: Vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar points
3
Skills: Reading skills
4
Skills: Speaking skills
5
Skills: Listening skills
6
Skills: Writing skills
7
Communication and culture
8
Looking back and project

UNIT 4: FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY
Lesson 1: Getting started: “Volunteering in the community”
Subject: English Language; Classes: ……………………
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to gain:
1. Knowledge
- An overview about the topic For a better community
- Vocabulary to talk about volunteering in the community
2. Core competence
- Develop communication skills and awareness of voluntary work
- Be collaborative and supportive in pair work and teamwork
- Actively join in class activities
3. Personal qualities
- Develop a sense of helping the community and awareness of voluntary work
- Be responsible to the community
II. MATERIALS
- Grade 10 textbook, Unit 4, Getting started
- Computer connected to the Internet
- Projector/ TV/ pictures and cards
- sachmem.vn
III. PROCEDURE
1. Organization:
Class
Absent student(s)
Date of teaching

2. New lesson:

Notes

1. WARM UP & INTRODUCTION ( 6 mins)
Teacher's activities
Student's activities
Greeting and chatting:
Greeting and chatting
- To activate students' knowledge on the topic
- Greet T
of the unit.
- Answer T's questions
- To create a lively atmosphere in the
classroom.
- To lead into the new unit.
Clip watching:
Clip Watching
Ss watch the clip and take notes
- T play clip about volunteering activities individually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho5b- Ss give words related to the topic
CfKTpo
- T divides class into 4 groups, gives key word “Volunteering””
+ Read books for children in orphanages
“ VOLUNTEERING”. In 2 minutes, ask each

group to find out the words related to the main
one based on clip
- Call each groups to write the words/ phrases
on the board.
- T checks and corrects if Ss spell or pronounce
the words/ phrases incorrectly.
- T collects all groups' answers, announces the
winner, ask Ss to look at the picture in the text
book
T leads in the lesson: Doing voluntary work to
help the community is a way for you to
contribute to make our community a better one.
There are many activities you can do to help
other people and in today's lesson we will find
out more about these activities.
Picture description:
- T asks Ss some questions.
+ What can you see in the picture?/ Who are the
people in the picture?
+ where are they?
+ What are they doing?

+ Visit and play games with them or
listen to their problems
+ Work at home of sick and old people
+ Volunteer to work in remote or
mountainous areas
.....

Picture description
Suggested answers
+ In the picture, I can see there are
some students. / they may be volunteers
of the centre
+ They are in the park
+ They are cleaning up the park / the
playground.

+ Do you often do these works?/ What do you
often do to contribute to making our community + I often help people with disabilities
better?
- T comments Ss' answers and introduces new - Open the textbooks and notebooks and
lesson: We're going to learn about volunteering write down new lesson
activities in the communities
2. PRESENTATION/ NEW LESSON ( 12 mins)
Teacher's activities
Student's activities
Conversation
Conversation
* Vocabulary:
* Vocabulary:
- T ask Ss to give the new words that they
+ volunteer (n) tình nguyện viên
prepared at home then write on board active
Volunteering
words that Ss have to remember in the lesso
+ advertisement (n) quảng cáo
- T asks Ss to repeat the new words in several
+ community (n) cộng đồng
times after the T.
+ Centre for community development:
- T calls some Ss to repeat the words.
trung tâm phát triển cộng đồng
+ boost (v) tăng thêm/ thúc đẩy
+ orphanage (n) trại trẻ mồ côi
+ by chance: tình cờ
+ clean up: dọn dẹp

+ get involved
(v.phr): tham gia = join /ʤɔɪn/ = take
part in
+ be so excited about something
(v.phr): hào hứng với việc gì đó
- Ss listen to the T and copy the new
words on their notebooks.
- Ss repeat the new words.
* Task 1: Listen and read
* Task 1: Listen and read
- T plays the recording and asks Ss to listen
- Ss listen and read along silently.
- T asks Ss to act out the conversation in pairs.
- Ss work in pairs to do the activity.
- T call some pairs to do the role-play activity.
The conservation is printed in the
- T gives the feedback and comments.
textbook.
Two characters: Tam and Kim
Situation: Tam and Kim have a
conversation, Tam would like to know
how to become a volunteer and what
volunteering activities are?
Topic: Provide guidelines on how to
write an application letter for volunteer
work, and share the benefits of
volunteering activities in communities.
3. PRACTICE ( 18 mins)
Teacher's activities
Student's activities
Task 2: read the conversation again and Task 2: read the conversation again
answer the questions.
and answer the questions.
- T asks Ss to read the requirements of the task. - Ss study the requirement of the task
- T explains the way to do the task.
- Work in pairs
- T asks Ss to read the sentences and underline - Give the answers in front of the class
the key words in each sentence and find out the 1. She was working as a volunteer at the
relating information in the reading text to local centre for community development.
answer the question.
2. Cleaning up the park or volunteering
- T gives Ss an example.
at the orphanage.
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to underline the key 3. She needs to fill in the form, then send
words and find out the information in the text to it in..
compare with the statements.
- Ss read the requirements of the task.
- T goes around to help Ss if necessary.
- Ss listen to the T.
- Ss work in pairs to do the task.
Key:
1. What was Tam doing when Kim went
to her house?
2. What are some regular activities at
the centre for community development?
3. How can Kim apply for volunteer
work at the centre?
* Playing game “lucky number”
- T divides the class into 2 groups.

* Play game

- T gives the rules of the game “lucky number”.
- T asks Ss to play lucky number game.
- T gives the key after getting the answer from
Ss.
- T congratulates the winner with Ss.
Task 3: find adjectives with the following
suffixes in the conversation and write them
below.
- T help students revise adjectives ending in the
suffixes -ed and -ing; -ful and -less.
"-ed" describes the emotion or reaction of a
person or object (being affected), while "-ing"
indicates the characteristic of something that
causes that emotion. ("-ed" miêu tả cảm xúc
hoặc phản ứng của người hay vật (bị tác
động), trong khi "-ing" chỉ tính chất của một
sự vật gây ra cảm xúc đó.)
"-ful" indicates the presence of a characteristic
(full), while "-less" indicates its absence. ("-ful"
chỉ sự hiện diện của đặc tính (đầy), trong khi "less" chỉ sự thiếu vắng)
- T ask Ss scan the conversation and write down
the adjectives ending in these suffixes.
- T asks some Ss to read the word related.
- T corrects Ss' pronunciation.
- T explains the meanings if necessary.
Task 4: find a verb or verb phrase in the
conversation to complete each sentence.
(p.43)
- T has Ss read the requirements of the task.
- T explains the way to do the task.
- T asks Ss to do the task individually.
- T call some Ss to go to the board and write
down their answers or stand up to speak out
- T gives the feedback and comments, and the
correct answers.

Task 3: find adjectives with the
following suffixes in the conversation
and write them below.
-ed: excited
-ing: interesting
-ful: useful, successful
-less: endless (sự vô tận)

Task 4: find a verb or verb phrase in
the conversation to complete each
sentence. (p.43)
- Ss look at the task and read the
requirements of the task.
- Ss listen to the T.
- Ss work individually.
- Ss give their answers in front of the
class
- Ss listen to the T and copy the answers
if necessary.
Key:
1. was working
2. saw

4. PRODUCTION/ FURTHER PRACTICE (5 mins)
Teacher's activities
Student's activities
SELF-REFLECTION
SELF-REFLECTION
Talk about activities you are going to do to
Talk about activities you are going to
make your community a better one (for a
do to make your community a better
minute).
one (for a minute).
- Ss do as instructed

* Teacher:
- gives Ss clear instructions in order to make
sure Ss can do effectively.
- encourages Ss to talk about some activities
including following information:
+ How many activities are you going to talk
about?
+ Where do you do those activities?
+ Who do you do with?
+ How often do you do those activities?
- T observes Ss while they are talking, note
their language errors.
- T gives Ss feedback.
- T chooses some useful or excellent words/
phrases/ expressions/ word choices Ss have
used to give suggestions to other students.
- T chooses some typical errors and correct as a
whole class without nominating the Ss' names.

5. WRAP-UP & HOMEWORK ( 4 mins)
Teacher's activities
Student's activities
1. Consolidation:
1. Consolidation:
- T asks Ss to remind the words/phrases that
+ Some lexical items about volunteering
they have just studied.
in the community
- T summarizes some main points.
2. Homework:
2. Homework:
- T instructs homework for the Ss.
- Ss listen to the T's instructions and take
notes.
- Learn by heart the new words
- Do the tasks in the workbook
- Prepare the next lesson “Lesson
2: Language”.
IV. COMMENTS: