Unit4-11C

Tran Van Trung, MA in TEFL Ha Tinh Specialized School
Date: 26/ 10/ 2007 UNIT FOUR
Allotted period in course: 21 VOLUNTEER WORK
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PERIOD: 1
(SPEAKING)
I. Aim
- Improve speaking skills and practice talking about volunteer work through the tasks given.
II. Objectives
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to use appropriate language to talk about different kinds of
activities related to volunteer work.
III. Materials
- Textbook, pictures and handouts.
IV. Anticipated problems
- Ss may not have sufficient vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help.
V. Procedure
Time Steps
Work
arrangement
5’
CHECKING –UP
- Ask some of Ss to translate the reading passage into Vietnamese
and give them mark.
- Ask the other Ss to make a list of volunteer work that they have
learnt in the previous lesson:
- Feedback and give them marks.
* Suggested activities:
+ Doing something good to help people in hospitals and
orphanages.
+ Doing something good to help sick and old people.
+ Doing many things to help handicapped children

+ Helping the people who have suffered badly in wars or natural
disasters….
Individual
work and the
whole class
7’
15’
TASK 1
Introduction: You are required to decide which of the following
activities are volunteer works.
- Ask Ss to work impairs to decide which of the activities in the book
are volunteer works.
- Ask them to explain why a certain activity is not volunteer work.
- Call some Ss to give their answers and ask for comments from
other students.
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
conversation activities, donating blood, directing traffic; guiding
foreign sports teams around when they go to Vietnam to compete….
TASK 2
Introduction: You are going to make conversations based on the
given suggestions.
- Before Ss do the task, T ask them top read the mdel conversation on
page 50. Then ask them to read the list of volunteer activities and the
exact things related to them.
- T can elicit or explain some words quickly:

Whole class,
individual
work & pair
work
Whole class
and pair work
Tran Van Trung, MA in TEFL Ha Tinh Specialized School
12’
+ War invalid: Thuong binh
+ Martyr: ['ma:to] liet sy
+ Intersection: nga ba, nag tu.
- Get across to Ss that one activity in the first column can go with
several activities in the first column.
- Ask Ss to match each activity on the left with corresponding
activities on the right.
Helping people in mountainous
areas
- Teaching children to read and
write
- Giving them money
Helping 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 of

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 at the
intersections
- Helping old people and young
children to cross the road.
TASK 3
Introduction: Now you work in groups to to about a kind of
volunteer work your partner in the previous task do to help other
people.
- Guide Ss to read through the example in the text book.
- Encourage them to use transition signal such as also, besides,
moreover, etc. to make their talk more coherent.
- Move around to observe and collect typical errors.
- Call on some Ss to talk about the activity they take part in.
- Elicit feedback from the class and give comments
Whole class
and groupwork
3’
WRAPPING AND HOMEWORK
- Summarize the main points of the lesson.
- Ask Ss to review the uses of different verb tense that have been
recovered in the lesson

- Ask them to prepare the next lesson.
Whole class
• Self – remarks and assessment:
- Has the aim of the lesson been achieved? ...............................................................
- Have Ss grasped the focus of language? .................................................................
- Has the teaching lesson been implemented according to the steps planned? ..........
- Have the activities such as pair and group work and individual work been carried
out? ..........................................................................................................................
- Has the time been allotted appropriately for each step? ..........................................
- What are the strong points? .....................................................................................
- What is the weakness that needs to be improved? ......................................................