unit 4 volunteer work reading aims by the end of the lesson students will be able to read for specific information read for general ideas work in pairsgroups effectively get to know about volunteer

-Have students work in groups of for or five, discussing the following questions:  What kind of volunteer work do you usually do at school.  What do you usually do in each kind of vol[r]

UNIT 4: VOLUNTEER WORK

READING Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to

 read for specific information

 read for general ideas

 work in pairs/groups effectively

 get to know about volunteer work

Teaching aids: Handouts, pictures

PROCEDURE

I WARM-UP: (5’)

-divide the class into 2 groups

-give instruction: Each group will take turns to answer the questions prepared before hand by the teacher If they give the correct answer they will get 1 mark The group with more marks wins the game

Questions:

1 What do you call the person who cures diseases for animals? (vet)

2 Tell me the name of the fruit which is round, sweet, rather big? (orange)

3 Which animal lives in the forest and eats the carrots? (rabbit)

4 Fill in the missing words

5 or West, home is best

6 What is the antonym of “full”? (empty)

7 What do you call the money we give to the children on Tet Holidays?(lucky money)

8 What is a popular kind of drink in Japan, China and Vietnam? (tea)

9 What is up when it rains? (umbrella)

10 What do you call the home of the birds (nest)

Treasure: VOLUNTEER

T shows some pictures and asks them the following question: What are the people in the pictures doing?

Expected answers:

1 They are preparing a country road

2 They are playing games with children in the countryside

3 They are teaching street children

Lead-in: These people are doing the work without being paid for it What do you call this kind of

work?

Volunteer work

In the lesson today you will know about some volunteer work in the USA) Can you tell me some volunteer work in our school?

Expected answers:

 Helping the disabled

 Helping the people suffering badly in wars or natural disasters

 Helping the poor, old…

 In our lesson today, we’ll read about the volunteer work.

II PRE-READING

1 Pre-teaching vocabulary:

-volunteer (n): tình nguyện viên → picture + explanation

These people are doing volunteer work They are volunteers.

→ volunteer (v): tình nguyện

→ voluntary (adj): tình nguyện→ context situation and synonym

In her spare time, she does the work without being paid for it?

In her spare time, she does work (voluntary)

-remote (adj): xa xôi → synonym

What is the synonym of “far away”?

-mow (v): xén, gặt → picture +example

Show the picture of a mower and ask students to fill in the gap with one word in the following sentence:

This machine is used to lawn

-handicapped (adj): tàn tật, khuyết tật → picture + translation

Show a picture of the handicapped and elicit the word.

-orphanage (n): trại mồ côi→ question

What do you call the home for children whose parents are dead?

2 Checking vocabulary : Gap-filling

1 When she retired, she did a lot of _ service for the Red Cross

2 He continued to the lawn and did routine chores

3 She needs some to clean up the kitchen

4 We have visited many villages in areas

5 I’m going to work two days a week teaching kids to fish

6 She was sent to an _ when her mother died

7 The company _ to donate fifty trucks to help the flooded areas

Key:

1 Voluntary 2 mow 3 volunteers 4 remote

5 handicapped 6 orphanage 7 volunteers / volunteered

II.WHILE –READING (17’)

Activity 1: Multiple choice (task2, P.48)

-Put students into pairs

-In pairs, ask them to choose the best answer from A, B, C or D for each of the sentence -Call on some Students to give the answers

-Make corrections

Expected answers: 1.A, 2.D 3.B 4.D, 5.B

Activity 2: Questions and answers (task 3, P49)

-Have students work in pairs to ask and answer the questions

-Call some students to give the answer and write on the board

-Check with the class

Expected answers:

1 They read books to the people there, play games with them and listen to their problem

2 They give care and comfort to them and help them to overcome their difficulties

3 During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas to provide education for children

IV POST – READING: Discussion

-Have students work in groups of for or five, discussing the following questions:

 What kind of volunteer work do you usually do at school?

 What do you usually do in each kind of volunteer work?

V HOMEWORK: Write a short paragraph about volunteer work at your school/hometown.