Tran Van Trung, MA in TEFL Ha Tinh Specialized School Date: 26/ 10/ 2007 UNIT FOUR Allotted period in course: 21 VOLUNTEER WORK ------- * ------- PERIOD: 1 (SPEAKING) I. Aim - Improve speaking skills and practice talking about volunteer work through the tasks given. II. Objectives - By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to use appropriate language to talk about different kinds of activities related to volunteer work. III. Materials - Textbook, pictures and handouts. IV. Anticipated problems - Ss may not have sufficient vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help. V. Procedure Time Steps Work arrangement 5’ CHECKING –UP - Ask some of Ss to translate the reading passage into Vietnamese and give them mark. - Ask the other Ss to make a list of volunteer work that they have learnt in the previous lesson: - Feedback and give them marks. * Suggested activities: + Doing something good to help people in hospitals and orphanages. + Doing something good to help sick and old people. + Doing many things to help handicapped children + Helping the people who have suffered badly in wars or natural disasters…. Individual work and the whole class 7’ 15’ TASK 1 Introduction: You are required to decide which of the following activities are volunteer works. - Ask Ss to work impairs to decide which of the activities in the book are volunteer works. - Ask them to explain why a certain activity is not volunteer work. - Call some Ss to give their answers and ask for comments from other students. Suggested answers: 1, The activities which are not volunteer work: taking part 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 conversation activities, donating blood, directing traffic; guiding foreign sports teams around when they go to Vietnam to compete…. TASK 2 Introduction: You are going to make conversations based on the given suggestions. - Before Ss do the task, T ask them top read the mdel conversation on page 50. Then ask them to read the list of volunteer activities and the exact things related to them. - T can elicit or explain some words quickly: Whole class, individual work & pair work Whole class and pair work Tran Van Trung, MA in TEFL Ha Tinh Specialized School 12’ + War invalid: Thuong binh + Martyr: ['ma:to] liet sy + Intersection: nga ba, nag tu. - Get across to Ss that one activity in the first column can go with several activities in the first column. - Ask Ss to match each activity on the left with corresponding activities on the right. Helping people in mountainous areas - Teaching children to read and write - Giving them money Helping old and sick people - Cleaning up their houses, - Doing their shopping - Cooking meals Helping disadvantaged or handicapped children - Teaching the children to read and write - Listening to their problems - Playing games with them - Taking them to places of interest. Taking care of war invalids and the families of martyrs - Listening to their problems - Cleaning up their houses - Doing their shopping - Cooking meals Taking part in directing the traffic - Directing vehicles at the intersections - Helping old people and young children to cross the road. TASK 3 Introduction: Now you work in groups to to about a kind of volunteer work your partner in the previous task do to help other people. - Guide Ss to read through the example in the text book. - Encourage them to use transition signal such as also, besides, moreover, etc. to make their talk more coherent. - Move around to observe and collect typical errors. - Call on some Ss to talk about the activity they take part in. - Elicit feedback from the class and give comments Whole class and groupwork 3’ WRAPPING AND HOMEWORK - Summarize the main points of the lesson. - Ask Ss to review the uses of different verb tense that have been recovered in the lesson - Ask them to prepare the next lesson. Whole class • Self – remarks and assessment: - Has the aim of the lesson been achieved? . - Have Ss grasped the focus of language? . - Has the teaching lesson been implemented according to the steps planned? - Have the activities such as pair and group work and individual work been carried out? - Has the time been allotted appropriately for each step? - What are the strong points? . - What is the weakness that needs to be improved?