Grade 7: LESSON PLAN
Period 17: UNIT 3: COMMUNITY SERVICE
Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED
A HELPING HAND
Date of preparation : September 20th, 2014
Date of teaching : September 22th, 2014
Classes : 7A1
I.Aims and Objectives:
+ Language content:
- To introduce some new words relating to community service and volunteer work
- To review the simple past and present perfect tense
+ Language function: To help student talk volunteer work .
+ Educational aim: To make students aware of the value of the work they do for community.
* Educational factor: to make them be volunteers
II. Language Contents:
a- Vocabulary: community , benefit, volunteer, donate, non-profit organization, make a difference
b- Structures: Tenses – the past simple : S+ V2/ V-ed + O
- The present perfect : S+ have / has + p.p + O
III. Techniques: pairwork, groupwork, individual work, question-answer, brainstorm , T/F, Game,
IV. Teaching aids: pictures, cassette, tape/ CD
V. Procedures:
1.Stabilization(1’) Greeting and checking attendance
2.Checking up(5’): Corrects the fifteen minute test
3. New lesson:
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Teaching steps




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1. Lead-in :
- Shows the pictures : What do these people do ?







- Leads to the new lesson
2. Pre- practice:
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
Ex: Last year we provided evening classes for street children
We have asked people to donate books and clothes for them
3- Controlled-practice:
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 :……………………………..
* Keys :
a. Community service: It’s the work you do for the benefits of the community
b. Be a Buddy : an organiozation that helps street children
c. Go Green : a non=profit organization that protects the environment
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.
* Keys
1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F ( non-profit organization ) 5. T
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
* Key: make a difference means doing sthing good, especially to improve a situation
- 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