Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11 Unit 4: Volunteer work

- T asks Ss to work in pairs to read the short poem/saying Pair work &whole class... 5’ WHILE YOU READ Setting the scene You are going to read a passage about volunteer work.. - T asks S

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11

Period 1 : READING

I Objectives

By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to :

- Develop such reading micro skills as scanning for specific ideas and skimming for general information

- Use the information they have read to discuss the topic

II Materials

Text book

III Anticipated problems

Ss may need help with the discussion task , so T should be ready to help them

Group work

- T divides the class into 2 big groups and draws each ofthem a gallows on the board.

Team A Team B

- T explains to Ss that they are going to play a

“Hangman” game The rule is that T gives a secret wordand the groups will take turn to guess it by telling whatletters they think there are in this word If Ss choose aletter that appears on oe more times in the secret word, theletters and their positions will be revealed and Ss can keep

on guessing the next letter On the other hand, if Ss guess

a letter that isn’t in the secret word, them a piece of manbeing hanged will be added to the gallows and they willlose their turn to the other groups Ss will get one pointfor each letter they can guess correctly When the game isover, T will count how many points each group hascollected and the group with more points will win thegame

- T leads the game, and in this lesson, the secret word is

“volunteer” T draws the same number of dashes as the

number of letters in this word For this word, T’d need 9

dashes like this:

- T asks the whole class to look at the picture on page 46

and asks them some questions:

+ What is the old woman doing in the picture ?

+ What does this mean by “Little Moments Big Magic”?

+ What does the picture tell you ?

Suggested answers:

+ The old woman is teaching the boy to read

+ The phrase means that your little contribution and help

may lead to significant results/may greatly change a

person’s life

+ The picture tells me that everyone, no matter what they

are young or old, can do volunteer work

- T asks Ss to work in pairs to read the short poem/saying

Pair work &whole class

on page 46 and answer the question and discuss itsmeaning.

- T calls on some Ss to present their opinion T may givesome comments and her suggestion: The saying meansthat if you help somebody by giving them some money,it’s just a temporary solution It’s better to instruct themhow to make money legally by teaching then necessaryworking skills

+ to volunteer to do sth/volunteer for sth: tình nguyện, tự

nguyện làm gì

+ volunteer(n): tình nguyện viên

+ voluntary(a): done willingly, not because you are

forced(tự nguyện); doing a job without wanting to be paid for it(tình nguyện)

+ voluntarily(adv)

The aged = the old (người già)

Orphanage(n): a place where children without parents

live ( trại trẻ mồ côi)

To overcome: vợt qua, khắc phục

E.g: She’s overcome the bad habit of talking loufly in

public

To participate in = to take part in (tham gia)

To suffer sth: chịu đựng cái gì

Remote = far away(xa xôi)

- If there is some time left, T may ask some Ss to make

sentences with the above words to check their

understanding

5’

WHILE YOU READ Setting the scene

You are going to read a passage about volunteer work

While you are reading, do the tasks in the textbook

TASK 1

Instruction: Fill each blank with one part of speech of the

word “volunteer”

- T elicits different parts of speech of the word

“volunteer” and write these words on the board:

Volunteer(v/n), voluntary, voluntarily

Whole class,individualwork & pairwork

- Then T instructs Ss to read through the sentencesprovided in the task to identify the part of speech of theword to fill in each blank For example, in sentence 1 theword to fill in should be an adjective, in sentence 2 anadverb, in sentence 3 a noun, and in sentence 4 a verb Ssshould also pay attention to the word preceding the blank

to fill in the right form of the word For instance, insentence 3 the word preceding the blank is ‘some’, so aplural noun should be filled in

- T asks Ss to work individually to do the task andexchange their answers with other Ss

- T asks Ss for their answers and gives the correct answers

Instruction: You are to read the passage and choose the

best answer from A,B,C or D for each of the following sentences.

- T asks Ss how to do this task If they don’t remember, Tmay instruct them to use some strategies to do the task:+ First, skim the 5 sentences to understand them As Ss do

this they underline the key words For instance, insentence 1 Ss can underline volunteers, help, sick or old,homes

+ Ss locate the information in each sentence in the textand read this part carefully

+ Next, Ss read the 4 choices given to choose the mostsuitable one

+ To complete sentence 5, Ssread the passage and trygiving it a title Then Ss search through the list of thetitles provided in the task to find the most suitable one Ssshould make sure the title chosen covers the entire textand not just one idea within it

- T asks Ss to work individually to do the task, thendiscuss their answers with their peers

- T calls on somw Ss to give their answers and asks other

Ss to say whether they agree or disagree

- T gives feedback and the correct answers:

TASK 3

Instruction: You are required to answer the 3 questions

in the book.

- T asks Ss how to do this task If they do not remember,

T may instruct them to use some strategies to do the task:+ First, skim the 3 Qs to understand them As Ss do thisthey:

* underline the key words For instance, in Q1 Ss canunderline What, high school, college Ss, hospitals,orphanages, homes for the aged

* decide what information they need to find in the text

* look for Qs words like “why” which indicates Ssshould read for specific thing like a reason

+ Go back to the first question and locate the informationfor the question by finding the key words in the passageand mark the place

+ Read the part carefully to find the answer Ss can usetheir own words

+ Continue with the rest of the Qs

- T asks Ss to work individually to do the task, thendiscuss their answers with their peers

- T calls on some Ss to write their answers on the board

and ask them to explain their choices.

- T gives the correct answers:

1 They read books to the people there, play games with

them or listen to their problems (line 7-10, para 1)

2 They give care and comfort to them and help them to

overcome their difficulties (line 2-3,para 3)

3 They volunteer to work in remote or mountainous

areas (line 5-6, para 3)

8’

AFTER YOU READ

Instruction: You are required to work in pairs to discuss

the question in the textbook.

- T asks Ss to work in pairs to discuss the question in the

book

- T goes around to help Ss when necessary

- When all pairs have finished, T asks every 2 pairs to

share ideas

- T calls on some Ss to report their ideas to the class

- T gives feedback

Pairwork,groupwork & wholeclass

2’

WRAPPING UP

Whole class

- T summarises the main points of the lesson

- T asks Ss to learn by heart all of the new words and dothe extra activity as homework

UNIT 4: VOLUNTEER WORK

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

- T divides the class into small groups of 3-4 Ss and gives

each group a set of pictures Ss are required to describe

the activity in each picture in one sentence only Which

group finishes first and has the most correct and

Group work

meaningful sentences will be the winner

Suggested answers:

1 The student is teaching the poor children.

2 The Ss are taking part in directing the traffic.

3 The medical Ss are examining the old people.

4 The Ss are taking care of the disadvantaged

children.

5 The Ss are taking part in a Blood Donation activity.

6 The Ss are collecting the rubbish.

7 The Ss are helping the soldiers to build the road.

8 The Ss are helping the examinees during the

University entrance exam period.

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

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:thương binh

Martyr: liệt sỹ

Intersection : đường 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

Whole class

& pair work

corresponding activities on the right.

handicapped children

- Teaching the children toread and write

- Listening to theirproblems

- Playing games withthem

- Taking them to places oninterest

Taking care of war invalids

and the families of martyrs

- Listening to theirproblems

- cleaning up their houses

- Doing their shopping

- Cooking mealsTaking part in directing the

- 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

You can use the information in TASK 2 to answer the questions.

- length of time spent for

the work

- your friend’s feeling

when doing the work.

- After Ss have finished T calls on some pairs to act outtheir conversation

- T elicits feedback from the class and gives finalcomments

TASK 3

Instruction: Now you work in groups to talk anout a kind

of volunteer work your partner in the previous task do tohelp other people

- Before Ss do the task, T may ask Ss to read through theexample 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 theirpartner takes part in They may say that: Mai usually takespart in directing the traffic She directs vehicles at theintersections Besides, she helps old people and youngchildren to cross the road She enjoys the work very much

because she likes helping people.

- T goes around to observe and collect typical errors

- T calls on some Ss to talk about the activity they take

part in

- T elicits feedback from the class and gives final

comments After that, T writes the errors she has

corrected on the board to elicit correction from Ss and

offers correction if necessary

3’

WRAPPING UP

- T summarises the main points of the lesson

- T asks Ss to do the EXTRA EXERCISE as homework

Whole class

UNIT 4 : VOLUNTEER WORK

lesson 3 : Listening

I Objecitves

By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to develop such listening skills as intensive listening for specific information and taking notes while listening.

micro-II Materials

Textbook, cassette tapes, handouts.

III Anticipated problems

Ss may not be familiar with the note-taking task so T should provide them some tips to deal with tha task.

- The aim of this activity is to help Ss revise the

vocabulary items Ss learnt in previous lesson

- T puts the vocabulary items on the board in any order

Group work

For example, T may write the following words and

phrases on the board: war invalid, martyr, intersection,

the aged, orphanage, remote, suffer

- T calls on some Ss to form 2 teams, and one person

from the team runs to the board, as a representative T

gives Vietnamese translation for one of the words gets

the point The representative changes, ready for the next

- T asks Ss to read through the Qs and choices on page

51 and makes sure understand all them

- T asks Ss to discuss the Qs in pairs

- T calls on some Ss to report on their partner’s answers

Vocabulary Pre-teaching

- Before eliciting/Pre-teaching the new words, T helps

Ss to pronounce the words given in the book T may read

aloud first or play the tape and ask Ss to repeat in chorus

Whole class,individualwork & pairwork

and individually.

- T elicits / teaches some of these words and those taken

from the listening passage:

Fund-raising activies: hoạt độmg gây quỹ

Donation(n): vật/tiền quyên góp

Informal school: trường học không chính thống

Organization for Education Development: tổ chức phát

- T may get Ss to make sentences with the words and

give corrective feedback

- T sets the scene: Now you are going to listen to a

passage about Spring School, a special school in Ho Chi

- Before Ss listen and do the task, T instructs Ss how to

do this kind of exercise:

+ Firstly, Ss have to read the sentences carefully As

they do this they should:

* underline the key words For example, the key words

in sentence 1 are Spring School, Ho Chi Minh city

* try to work out what they are going to hear

* decide what they need to listen out for For example,

the word to fill in the blank in sentence 1 should be an

adj, while in sentence 2 a number + noun/noun phrase

may be needed

+ After that, Ss listen to the tape and take notes of the

answers Ss should make sure that their sentences are

grammatically correct

- T plays the tape once for Ss to do the task

- T asks for Ss’ answers and writes them on the board

- T plays the tape the second time for Ss to check their

answers

- T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 to compare their

answers

- T checks Ss’ answers by calling on some Ss If many

Ss can’t complete the sentences, T plays the tape one or

Individual

work & classwork

two more times and pauses at the answers for them tocatch.

- T gives the correct answers:

6 informal 7 30 street children 8 250 children 9

1988 10 Volunteers, June

TASK 2 Instruction: You are going to listen to the tape again

and answer the Qs;

- Before Ss listen to the tape again to do the task, T mayask them to try to answer the Qs with the things theyremember from the previous times of listening

- T plays the tape again for Ss to do the task T mightalso want to remind Ss that while listening they need tofocus on the key words in each question

- After playung the tape, T gets Ss to work in pairs andcheck their answers

- T calls on some Ss to give the answers and elicitsfeedback from others If many Ss can’t complete thetask, T might want to let Ss listen one more time andpause at the answers for them to catch

Suggested answers:

1 It provides classes to disadvantaged children in