Unit 4-English 11

Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 11
Date of planning:
Period 20: Reading
Unit 4: VOLUNTEER WORK
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A. OBJECTIVES:
I. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know volunteer
work of American teenagers.
II. Skills: Speaking, writing, reading
B. PROCEDURE:
I. Settlement: Checking attendance
II. Checking: No- checking
III. New lesson: Reading
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIIES STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
1. Pre-reading: Warm- up:
- Show the picture of volunteer work and ask questions
What is the old woman doing?
 What does she do this work for?
- Check the answers
- Give Ss the following saying :
“If you give me a fish,
I will eat today
If you teach me to fish
I will eat my whole life long.”
- Ask Ss what the saying implies.
- Check the answer.
- Supply Ss music and some more pictures of Volunteer
Work.
2. While- reading:
a. Pronunciation:
- Ask Ss to match new words with explanation.

1. Volunteer (n)
2. Orphanage (n)
3. Handicapped people
4. Disadvantaged people
- Work in groups.
- Answer the questions
- Read and guess the meaning
of the saying in their text book
- Answer the question.
- Take notes.
- Identify the pictures.
- Do in group-work.
- Match the words with sentences
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Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 11
- Check their answers :
1 - c
2 - d
3 - a
4 - b
b. TASK 1
- Ask for filling the blanks.
- Give the explanation of related words.
1. Voluntary (adj)
2. Voluntarily (adv)
3. Volunteers (n)
4. Volunteers (v)
- Correct their mistakes.
c. TASK 2:
- Ask sts to read the text again silently.

- Ask sts to choose the best answer
- Check their answers
1-B, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B, 5-C
- Give feedback
post reading:
d. TASK 3:
- Ask Ss to discuss then answer the questions in task 3.
- Check their answers.
1. They usually visit hospitals, orphanages or homes
for the ages. They read books to the people or listen to
their problems
2. They help them to overcome the difficulties and
give care and comfort to them.
3. During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in
remote or mountainous area to provide education for
children or medical services for local people.
3. Post – reading:
- Ask Ss to discuss then answer the following questions.
1. Why do people do volunteer work?
2. Have you ever joined any volunteer work before?
- Ask sts to make a report in front of class.
- Correct their mistakes.
- Take notes
- Individual work
- Read all of the sentences in task 1
and fill in each blank .
- Take notes.
- Pair-work
- Read the text again silently.
- Choose the best answer.

- Take notes.
- Group- work
- Read all of the questions in task 3
and then answer them.
- Group- work
- Discuss the questions
- Answer the questions
- Report in front of class.
IV. Consolidation: Review the text
V. Homework: - Prepare the new section of unit4
- Part B- Speaking.
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Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 11
Date of planning:
Period 21: Speaking
Unit 4: VOLUNTEER WORK
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A. OBJECTIVES:
I. Knowledge: Talking about types of volunteer work. Asking and answering
questions about volunteer work
II. Skills: Speaking, writing, reading
B. PROCEDURE:
I. Settlement: Checking attendance
II. Checking: Answer the questions
III. New lesson: Speaking
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1. Warm – up:
- Ask students to look at the picture in their
books and answer two questions:
 What are these students doing?

 Are they volunteers?
2. Pre – speaking:
TASK 1
- Have students do Task 1 in pairs
- Ask students to give their answers
- Explain some activities of volunteer work
* Helping people in the remote or
mountainous areas
* Giving care and comfort to the poor and
sick
* Providing education for disadvantaged
children
* Joining in the Green Saturday Movement
Correct the mistakes
3. While – speaking:
TASK 2
- Have students do Task 2 in pairs
- Give some suggestions:
* Providing minority children with literacy
(teach them how to read and write)
* Working in difficult or flooded areas (help
them rebuilt houses, provide medical
services, etc)
* Raising money to help the handicapped or
starving children (put money in a piggy bank)
* Taking part in directing the traffic (stand at
the crossroads during rush hour to help direct
Answer the questions:
They are helping an old man with the housework.
Yes, they are.

- Do Task 1 in pairs
Give the answers
Take notes
Do Task 2 in pairs
Take notes
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Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 11
the traffic)
* Volunteering in homes for the elderly
(clean up/ repair their houses, do the washing
up, do some shopping, mow their lawns, take
care of them, read books, etc)
- Have students perform the dialogue in front
of class
4. Post – speaking:
TASK 3
- Have students do Task 3 in groups
- Give some suggestions:
* What kind of volunteer work do you
usually take part in?
* What do you think about it?
- Correct common mistakes
- Perform in front of class
- Work in groups
- Take notes
- Each group gives a short presentation.
IV. Consolidation: Review Part B carefully
V. Homework: Prepare Part C – Listening
Date of planning:

Period 22: Listening
Unit 4: VOLUNTEER WORK
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A. OBJECTIVES:
I. Knowledge: At the end of the Ss will be able to:
+ Listen and answer questions relating to volunteer work of one high school in Vietnam.
+ Improve listening skill by using pictures and exercises
+ Summarize the story through some cues
II. Skills: Speaking, Writing, Listening
B. PROCEDURE:
I. Settlement: Checking attendance
II. Checking: Talk about some volunteer work
III. New lesson: Listening
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
1. Warm up:
T shows any pieces of song and asks Sts to guess the
name and the composer of the songs
FUNNY NOTE
- Sts work in groups
- The leader of each group will listen to
and give the most exactly and quickly
answer
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Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 11

(1) (2) (3)
 Tinh ca - Hoang Viet composer
 Ha Noi mua thu – Vu Thanh composer
 Mua He Xanh – Vu Hoang composer
“Mua He Xanh” song  volunteer work

- T shows some pictures related to Mua He Xanh
activities

2. Before you listen:
- The teacher asks students some questions
 How often do you support charities?
 What’s the best way of raising money to support
charities?
 Which of these kinds of volunteer work do you
prefer?
** New words :
- The teacher presents the new words on the board.
- Ask Sts to listen & repeat the new words (pay attention
to the pronunciation of these words)
1. Organization for Education Development
2. Spring School
3. co-operate (v) : to work together with sb else in order
to achieve sth
4. disadvantaged children (n) = poor children
5. fund-raising
6. co-ordinate (v)
7. regularly attend classes
8. to be held annually
3. While you listen:
a. Task 1: Listen and fill in the missing information
- T asks Sts to read Task 1 silently in order to
understand the sentence meaning and guess the missing
information
- T plays the tape several times if necessary
- Pairs work

- Whole class
- Whole class
- Sts listen to the tape twice to do the task.
Then, listen again to check information
- Individual work
- Whole class
Sts listen to the tape again to answer the
questions
- Individual work ( give the answer on
BB)
- Pair work
Sts fill information in diagram
- Model the discussion in front of the class
Answers:
1. informal
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