Date of preparation : 23/10/2015 Date of teaching : 26/10/2015
Unit 4 : Volunteer Work
Period 25 Speaking
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson,Ss will be able to talk about different kinds of activities related to volunteer work.
II. Materials
Textbook, pictures, handouts.
III. Anticipated problems
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help
IV. Procedure

Time
Teacher’s activities
 Student’s activities

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12’

WARM UP
Ask students to look at the picture in their books and answer two questions:
What are these students doing?
Are they volunteers?

TASK 1
Instruction: You are required to decide which of the following activities are volunteer works.
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to decide which of the activities in the book are volunteer works. Ss should also explain why a certain activity is not volunteer work.
- T calls some Ss to give their answers ands for comments from other Ss.
- T elicits other volunteer activities from Ss.
Suggested answers:
1.The activities which are not volunteer work: taking part in an excursion and participating in an English speaking club.
+ Reason: You take part in these activities for yourself, not to help other people.
2. Some other volunteer activities: taking part in environmental conservation activities, donating blood, directing traffic, guiding foreign sports teams around when they go to Vietnam to compete...

TASK 2
Instruction : You are goimg to make conversations based on the given suggestions.
- Before Ss do the task, T asks them to read the model conversation onpage 50. Then Ss read the list of volunteer activities and the exact things related to them.
- T can elicit or explain some words quickly:
War invalid:th­¬ng binh
Martyr: liÖt sü
Intersection : ®­êng giao nhau
- T gets across to Ss that one activity in the first column can go with several activities in the 2nd column. T may require Ss to match each activity on the left with corresponding activities on the right.
Suggested answers:

Helping people in mountainous areas
- Teaching the children to read and write
- Give them money

Help old and sick people
- Cleaning up their houses
- Doing their shopping
- Cooking meals

Helping disadvantaged or handicapped children
- Teaching the children to read and write
- Listening to their problems
- Playing games with them.
- Taking them to places on interest

Taking care of war invalids and the families of martyrs
- Listening to their problems
- cleaning up their houses.
- Doing their shopping
- Cooking meals

Taking part in directing the traffic
- Directing vehicles ar the intersections
- Helping old people and young children to cross the road


- T may design a handout for this activity to help Ss talk more naturally and to lead to the next task. Ss may choose one or more activities to talk about , and they change the role after one activity.
Student A
You want to take part in the volunteer work your friend is doing .
Ask him/her all the information you want to know.
You can use suggestions below:
- kind of volunteer work
- exact things to do
- frequency of doing the work
- length of time spent for the work
- your friend’s feeling when doing the work.
Student B
You are participating in a volunteer work. Answer your friend’s questions about the work.
You can use the information in TASK 2 to answer the questions.





- After Ss have finished T calls on some pairs to act out their conversation.
- T elicits feedback from the class and gives final comments.

TASK 3
Instruction: Now you work in groups to talk anout a kind of volunteer work your partner in the previous task do to help other people.
- Before Ss do the task, T may ask Ss to read through the example in the book. T encourages Ss to use transition signals such as also, besides, moreover, etc. to make their talk more coherent.
- Now Ss work in groups to talk about one activity their partner takes part in. They may say that: Mai usually takes part in directing the traffic. She directs vehicles at the intersections. Besides, she helps old people and young children to cross the road. She enjoys