Unit 04 For a Better Community Lesson 8 Looking back project

WARM-UP
Watch a video and write down volunteer
activitives you have seen in the video


Unit 4: FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY

Period: 39 LOOKING BACK- PROJECT
I. Pronunciation
II. Vocabulary
III. Grammar

Nguyễn Nữ Hoàng Danh


A. LOOKING BACK
I. Pronunciation
II. Vocabulary
III. Grammar


Pronunciation
Listen and circle the words you hear in the sentences.

Look at that ant.
He didn't mend that.

They have just built a new
ice rink in the area.

The houses in this area stink

of carbon dioxide gas.
The banks lent money to the poor
people in the village.

We spent our last summer holiday
doing volunteer work in a mountainous
province of Vietnam.


VOCABULARY: Complete the text with the words from the box:
excited
donate

meaningless

interesting

disadvantaged

meaningful

1. Before he joined our volunteer team, he felt his life was boring. Sometimes he
thought it was ________.
2. They all got _______about the trip to Ha Long Bay, so they had a sleepless
night.
3. The donation of warm clothes from the donors last winter was really ________
to those poor children.
4. The charity music night was _______. All the audience thought it was
interesting.
5. The public service announcement called for volunteers to ________ time to look

after sick people in the local hospital.
6. Those volunteers spent a sleepless night preparing gifts for ________ children in
Cao Bang.


GRAMMAR
Simple past tense

Past continuous tense

Form
- S + V-ed/V2 + (O)
- S + did not/didn’t + V + (O)
- Did + S + V + (O)?
II. Use
+ He ate a chicken last Sunday.
+ She came home, switched on the
computer and checked her emails.
+ I often got up late when I was
young.
+ I was eating dinner when she
came.
+ If I were you,I wouldn't get
engaged to him.

I. Form
- S + was/were + V-ing.
- S + was/were + not + V-ing.
- Was/were + S + V-ing?
II. Use

+ I was cleaning the house at 6.00
yesterday.
+ My mum was cooking when my
father came back .
+ She was cooking While he was
watching TV.

I.


1. Choose the correct answer:
1. The telephone / ring / while / we / have dinner
A. The telephone rang while we had dinner.
B. The telephone was ringing while we were having
dinner
C. The telephone rang while we were having dinner
D. The telephone rings while we were having dinner


2. I / wait / at the bus stop / when / I / receive / his text

message
A. I was waiting at the bus stop when I received his text
message.
B. I waited at the bus stop when I was receiving his
text message.
C. I was waiting at the bus stop when I receive his text
message.
D. I am waiting at the bus stop when I received his text
message.

3. You / listen / when / the teacher / call / your name?
A. Do you listen when the teacher called your name?
B. Are you listening when the teacher called your
name?
C. Were you listening when the teacher calls your
name?
D. Were you listening when the teacher called your
name?


3. Read the text about Tilly smith and put verbs in brackets in the past simple or the
past continuous
FROM A GEOGRAPHY LESSON TO A REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE

Tilly Smith war born in 1994. She came from Surrey England. At school, she was
very interested in her Geography classes. On 26th December, 2004 Tilly
was having
______________ (1. have) a holiday with her family in Thailand when she ______
(2. realise) that Geography was not realised
only an interesting school subject
shorelinebut
(n):also
ven bờ
helped to save people`s lives.
While Tilly ______________ (3.sit) on Maikhao
was sitting
Beach in Phuket, Thailand, the sea water suddenly receded from shoreline.
recognised (4. recognise) the symptoms of a tsunami because two

Tilly______________
weeks before her holiday she learnt about tsunamis in a Geography lesson from
wanted
Recedeto(v):
mờ dần,
xa dần
her teacher at school. Tilly_______ (5. want)
leave
the beach
quickly because
she knew what ______________ (6. happen), but the peoplewas
onhappening
the beach didn`t
seem to care. She was very worried and ______ (7. tell) her parents about it
told
immediately. When Tilly`s
father warned others on the beach and the staff at the
hotel where they were staying about the possible tsunami, she ______(8. run) to
a saferanplace with her mother and sister. The tsunami ______ (9. be) a terrible
diaster
for thousands of people, but it _______ (10. not kill) anybody on Maikhao
was
Beach
Tsunami (n): sóng thần
didn'tThank
kill to Tilly.


Who was Tilly Smith?

She was a school girl from Surrey, England.


You are lucky


Which school subject was she interested in?

She was interested in Geography.


What happened when Tilly was sitting on Maikhao
Beach?
The sea water suddenly receded from the shoreline,
which is a symptom of a tsunami.


What did she do to help people on Maikhao Beach
at that time?
She told her parents about a possible tsunami,
and her father warned other people on the
beach and the staff at the hotel where they
were staying about it.


Sing a song about
volunteers


B. Project

• Watch a video and answer the following
questions:
• What are the problems of these peolple /
these places?
• What do you think you can do to help them?
Make a plan.
• Present your ideas to the whole class


B. PROJECT : Make plan to help someone / a place in your
community that needs help.
Present your ideas to the class, your presentation should
include:
1- Greetings.
2- Introduction: name, be a representative of…
3- Content of the report.
- Find someone / a place in your community that needs help.
- What are the problems of this person / this place?
- What do you think you can do to help? Make a plan.
4- Conclusion : why people do volunteer work .


Homework:
• Learn by heart the structures and vocabulary .

• Prepare unit 5