Unit 03. Community Service. Lesson 5. Skills 1

WELCOME  TO  OUR  CLASS

ENGLISH 7

Unit 3:

COMMUNITY SERVICE
By: Le Viet Phu


WARM-UP: What community service are these?

donate books

donate blood

clean up beaches

visit the elderly

plant trees

give lessons to street
children


NEW LESSON

Unit 3:

COMMUNITY SERVICE

SKILLS 1


READING


Vocabulary

− at one time or another (exp)
− government statistics (n)
− force (v)
− general labour (n)
− clean-up project (n)
− home repair (n)
− transportation (n)
− give rides to s.b (v)
− tutor (v)
− mentor (v)

lúc này hay lúc khác
thống kê nhà nước
ép buộc, bắt ép
lao động phổ thông
đề án làm vệ sinh
việc sửa chữa nhà cửa
phương tiện đi lại
chở ai đi
dạy kèm
chỉ dẫn, chỉ dạy

Checking vocabulary

− at one time or another (exp)
− government statistics (n)
− force (v)
− general labour (n)
− clean-up project (n)
− home repair (n)
− transportation (n)
− give rides to s.b (v)
− tutor (v)
− mentor (v)

lúc này hay lúc khác
thống kê nhà nước
ép buộc, bắt ép
lao động phổ thông
đề án làm vệ sinh
việc sửa chữa nhà cửa
phương tiện đi lại
chở ai đi
dạy kèm
chỉ dẫn, chỉ dạy


InRead
the United
almost everyone,

atUnited
one time
or another, has been a volunteer. According to
1.
the textStates,
about volunteer
work in the
States.
U.S. government statistics, about one-fifth of the American population does volunteer work each
year. Americans have had the tradition of volunteering and helping one another since the early
days of the country.
Americans volunteer not because they are forced or paid to do it. They enjoy it! Traditional
volunteer activities include raising money for people in need, cooking and giving food,
doing general labour (such as clean-up projects and home repair), providing transportation
(such as giving rides to the elderly), and tutoring/mentoring young people.
(adapted from "Volunteering: An American Tradition" by Susan J.Ellis and Katherine H.Campbell in eJoumal USA: The Spirit of
Volunteerism. U.S. Department of State, 2012).


2. Decide if the following statements are true or false (F).
T

F

1. According to the text, nearly every American has done volunteer
work in his or her life.

2. Every year almost one in five Americans works as a volunteer.

3. Americans have been volunteering for less than 50 years.

4. Americans volunteer because they are forced to do it.

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3. Which of the activities below are traditional volunteer activities in the United
States? Tick () the boxes.

1. providing care for animals
2. raising money

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3. cooking meals

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4. donating blood
5. cleaning streets

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6. teaching young children

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SPEAKING


4. Idea bank: Fill in the table with your ideas for volunteer activities.

To raise

To provide

To help repair

To help people

To tutor young

money, we

food, we

things, we

with transport-

children, we could...

could...

could...

could…

ation, we could...

• make

• cook food

postcar-ds

and bring it to

• repair the roofs of • give rides to the

and sell them

street children

• provide homework help

their houses and

elderly

before/ after school

other

• offer free bus

• offer evening classes for

household

tickets to disabled

street children

appliances

people/the poor


5. Work in groups. Share the ideas in your idea bank with your group members. Then, use the most
interesting ideas to create a new group idea bank and share it with the class.

Example:
A: We could make postcards and sell them to raise money.
B: What types of postcards?
A: We could make paper / wooden / leather …postcards
C: Where should we sell them?
A: We could sell them in the market / to the bookstores…


Suggestion for discussion
G1: To raise money, we could
+ collect waste paper / used glass / bottles and sell them

+ Save from the money for breakfast
+ make post cards and sell them ,….
G2: To provide food, we could 
+ Cook food and bring it to street children 
+ plant vegetables at school ground and take them to the elderly people 
+ Offer coupons for breakfast / lunch / dinner for the poor people ,…
G3: To help repair things, we could 
+ help the old rebuild their houses, fix the roofs…
+ help them repair the household appliances,…


G4: To help people with transportation, we could 
+ Give rides to the elderly; Give people a lift…
+ Take old people across the road
+ Offer free bus tickets to disabled people / the poor ,…
+ Direct the traffic; Clean and make streets clear…
G5: To tutor young children, we could 
+ Provide homework help before or after school
+ Offer evening classes for street children
+ Donate books, notebooks and other school things 
G6: To recycle rubbish, we could
+ Collect paper, glass, bottles, cans for reusing or recycling
+ Ask and encourage people to classify rubbish for recycling
+ Put garbage bins in the schoolyard, along the streets,..


HOMEWORK

- Learn the new words.
- Practice reading the passage again

- Prepare for Unit 3: SKILLS 1

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