Lesson plan – grade 11 - Unit four: Volunteer work

Hoang Thi Xuan – Quynh Luu I high school Suggested answers:  Classes for disadvantaged children..  250 children with special difficulties from District 1 attend classes.[r]

LESSON PLAN – GRADE 11

Unit Four: VOLUNTEER WORK

C Listening

Outcomes: - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to listen for specific

information

- By the end of the lesson, the students can know more about volunteer work

Type of lesson: - skill – based (Listening)

Key Vocabulary: - co- operate, fundraising, sponsor……

Anticipated problems: - Students may have difficulty in understanding some words in the

tape

Materials: - Textbook - Poster

- Chalk and board - Handouts

- CD player & CD - Markers

Stage/

Timing

1 Warm

up (6 ms)

Hangman:

C H A R I T Y

- Draw dashes on the board, each dash is for a letter of the word

- Have sts guess the letter, one by one

- For every wrong guess, draw a line, sts will lose the game if they guess wrong 5 times

- Give sts a cue of necessary:

Raise money to help the poor is a work for………

To raise sts’

interest and introduce the lesson

Sts - Sts Chalk &

Board

Before you

listen

(7 ms)

(5 ms)

Chatting:

1.Do you know "charity"?

2.Have you ever supported charities?

3.How often do you support

charities? (regularly/ from time to time/ never …)

4.Do your family and people around you often support charities?

5.In what ways? (support money/

used books and clothes/ hold music performances/ help the poor, …) 6.What is the best way of raising money to support charities? (through the donations/ through taxes/ through fund-raising activities…)

Pre – teach vocabulary:

- Teach the words below by giving examples and making a question

1.co- operate (v) (Example) Example: I work with him and help him for a particular purpose So I co-operate with him

2 fundraising (n) (Question): hoạt động gây quỹ

Ask sts: What do you call the activity

of collecting money to support a charity or an organization?

3 sponsor (n) (Example):nhà tài trợ Hanoi brewery company paid all the expenses for the World Cup 2002

Checking vocabulary:

Vietnamese – English equivalent

- Say an English word and ask sts to speak out its Vietnamese

equipvalent

- Say the Vietnamese meaning of a word and ask sts to speak out the English word

- Set the scene:

Now you are going to listen to a passage about Spring School, a special school in Ho Chi Minh City,

To help facilitate the listening tasks

To enable to understand the meaning of new words

To check sts’understanding

of the words

To lead into the listening lesson

T – Sts

T - class

T - Class

T

Chalk & board

Chalk & board

While you

listen

(7 ms)

(8 ms)

and then do the tasks followed

Task 1 – Gap- filling:

Instruction: Listen to the passage

and fill in the missing information in each sentence

- Before sts listen and do the task, instruct sts how to do this kind of exercise:

+ First, ask sts to read the sentences carefully

+ 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 to

For example: in sentence 1, the word should be an adjective, while in sentence 2 a number + noun / noun phrase may be needed

+ Get sts to listen to the tape and take notes of the answers

- Play the tape once for sts to do the task

- Ask sts for answers and write them

on the board

- Play the tape one or two more times and pause at the answers so that sts can check their answers

- Give correct answers

Expected answers:

1 informal

2 30 street children

3 250 children

4 1998

5 Volunteers / June

Task 2 – Error Recognization:

Instruction:

- Deliver the handouts to sts

- Tell sts to read the sentences carefully

To check sts’

note-taking skill

To develop sts’

listening skill

Individuals

Pairs

CD player, CD

Chalk & board Textbook

Handouts, Chalk & board

After you

listen

(10 ms)

- Play the tape again for sts to do the task

- Have sts work in pairs and check their answers

- Call on some sts to give the answers

Handouts:

1 Spring School provides schools for disadvantaged children in Ho Chi Minh City.

2 Dance, theatre, singing and circus classes were set up in 1999.

3 Spring School requires volunteers helping organize their fundaraising dinner.

4 This is an exciting night in where children dance, sing and play music.

5 More school like Spring School will soon be finding in other cities in Vietnam.

Expected answers:

1 classes 2 folk music

3 to help 4.which 5 found

Task 3 – Brainstorm

- Ask sts to write down what they

remember about Spring School.

- Call on some sts to give the answers

- Note down sts’ ideas on the board.

- Elicit feedback from the class and give final comment

To integrate writing and speaking skill

Groups Posters &

Markers

Spring School

(2 ms)

Suggested answers:

 Classes for disadvantaged children.

 30 street children live & study here.

 250 children with special difficulties from District 1 attend classes.

 English classes were set up in 1998/

 Dance, theatre, singing and folk music classes were set up a year later.

 It requires volunteers to help organise their fundraising dinner, contact sponsor & organise these events.

Information – searching:

- Ask sts to search on the Net, newspapers or magazines information about other volunteer organizations/ groups/ schools such

as Spring School

- Prepare for the new lesson: Writing

Individuals Any

relevant materials