-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]
(1)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 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 mark The group with more marks wins the game
Questions:
1 What you call the person who cures diseases for animals? (vet) Tell me the name of the fruit which is round, sweet, rather big? (orange) Which animal lives in the forest and eats the carrots? (rabbit)
4 Fill in the missing words
5 or West, home is best What is the antonym of “full”? (empty)
7 What you call the money we give to the children on Tet Holidays?(lucky money) What is a popular kind of drink in Japan, China and Vietnam? (tea)
9 What is up when it rains? (umbrella)
10 What you call the home of the birds (nest)
Treasure: VOLUNTEER
(2)Expected answers:
1 They are preparing a country road
2 They are playing games with children in the countryside They are teaching street children
Lead-in: These people are doing the work without being paid for it What 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
(3)Show a picture of the handicapped and elicit the word -orphanage (n): trại mồ côi→ question
What you call the home for children whose parents are dead? Checking vocabulary : Gap-filling
1 When she retired, she did a lot of _ service for the Red Cross He continued to the lawn and did routine chores
3 She needs some to clean up the kitchen We have visited many villages in areas
5 I’m going to work two days a week teaching kids to fish She was sent to an _ when her mother died
7 The company _ to donate fifty trucks to help the flooded areas
Key:
1 Voluntary mow volunteers remote
5 handicapped orphanage 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:
(4)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 you usually at school?
What you usually in each kind of volunteer work?