The volunteers are cleaning the rubbish

Students are collecting used paper

Students are planting a tree

Students are cleaning the park

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COMMUNITY SERVICE
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED

Sounds like great work!

Uni
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HOBBIES

LESSON 1: GETTING
STARTED
What's Community
service?
(It's the work that people do without
payment to help other people)

I/ Vocabulary:

- community activity (n.phr.)
/kəˈmjuːnɪti ækˈtɪvɪti/

hoạt động cộng đồng

I/ Vocabulary:
- (to) donate /dəʊˈneɪt/
quyên góp, ủng hộ

I/ Vocabulary:

- nursing home (n)
/ˈnɜːsɪŋ həʊm/

viện dưỡng lão

I/ Vocabulary:

- homeless (adj)
/ˈhəʊmləs/

vô gia cư

I/ Vocabulary:
- (to) pick up litter /pɪk ʌp ˈliːtə/:
nhặt rác

I/ Vocabulary:
New words

community
activity(n)

Pronunciation

Meaning

/kəˈmjuːnɪti ækˈtɪvɪti/ hoạt động cộng đồng

(to) donate

/dəʊˈneɪt/

quyên góp, ủng hộ

nursing home (n)

/ˈnɜːsɪŋ həʊm/

viện dưỡng lão

homeless (adj)
(to)pick up litter

/ˈhəʊmləs/

vô gia cư

/pɪk ʌp ˈliːtə/

nhặt rác

1 Listen and read.
Minh: Hi, Tom. Are you back in Ha Noi?
Tom: Yes. I came back yesterday. Can we
meet up this Sunday morning? I bought
you a board game.
Minh: Sure, I can't wait! But our Green
School Club will have some community
activities on that morning.
Tom: What activities does your club do?
Minh: Well, we pick up litter around our
school and plant vegetables in our school
garden.

Tom: School gardening? That's
fantastic!
Minh: Yes. We donate the
vegetables to a nursing home. Does
your school have any activities like
these?
Tom: Yes. We donate books to
homeless children. We also have
English classes. Last summer, we
taught English to 30 kids in the area.
Minh: Sounds like great work!
Tom: Thanks.
Minh: ... So, let's meet in the
afternoon then.

2 Read the conversation again and tick the appropriate box.
Community activity
1. picking up litter
2. planting vegetables
3. donating books
4. donating vegetables
5. teaching English

Minh's club

Tom's
club

3 Complete the phrases under the pictures with the verbs below.
pick up

1. ________
pick up litter

clean

donate

recycle

2. ______
help homeless
children

donate clothes
4. _________

help

3. _______
recycle plastic bottles

5. ________
clean the

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
old people- homeless children – planted - litter- taught
homeless children
1. We collected clothes and gave them to _________________.
litter
2. Those students picked up all the __________
on the street.
old people in the nursing home last Sunday.
3. We helped ____________

taught maths to primary students during schoo
4. The club members ________
holidays.
planted a lot of trees in the park last summer.
5. We __________

5 Game: Vocabulary Ping-pong

Work in two teams.

Team A provides a cue word.
Team B makes up a sentence with it.
Then switch roles.
Example:
Team A: Litter
Team B: We often pick up litter in the park.
Trees

children.
Team A:We
Wedonate
plant books
trees to
inhomeless
our school
everyvegetables
Team A:
……..
year.
Book
Team B: …

CONSOLIDATION

1 WRAP-UP
What have we learnt in this lesson?
 identify the topic of the unit
 use lexical items related to community activities
 identify the language features that are covered in the unit

2

HOMEWORK

 Think about community activities that students
can do (at least 3 activities)
 Prepare for the Project lesson

1.Learn by heart the new words.
2.Practice reading the dia
3.Prepare: A closer look 1.