WARM-UP
1. What are they doing?
They are doing volunteer work
2.Do you like doing volunteer work?
3.Why do you like doing volunteer work?
4. What did you do for your community
last summer?

Unit 3

COMMUNITY
SERVICE
LESSON 6: SKILLS 2

Listening

• Tom and Linda's community
activities last summer.

Writing

• Write an email about your
school activities last summer.

01

Listening

PRE-LISTENING

1 What community activities are the children doing in the pictures?
a

reading books to the
elderly

b

picking up litter

c

planting trees

WHILE-LISTENING

2

Listen to Tom and Linda talking about their community activities last summer.
Circle the correct answers.

1. Linda and her friends taught ______.

3. Tom and his friends picked up ______.

A. English and literature

A. books and paper

B. maths and history

B. bottles and books

C. English and maths

C. paper and bottles

2. Linda and her friends ______ the elderly.

4. Tom and his friends ______.

A. talked to

A. grew some trees

B. cooked for

B. tutored maths

C. read books to

C. cleaned schools

WHILE-LISTENING

3 Listen again and fill in each blank with no more than two words.
fun
good time

skills

02

Writing

Tom

4. Read the format of the email and answer the questions.
Who is writing to whom?
Tom is writing to Nam.
What is the subject of the email?
School activities last summer
How does Tom start & end his email?
Starting: Dear Nam,
Signing up: Best

Informal email

nam@webmail.com
School
School activities
activitieslast
lastsummer
summer
Nam,
Dear Nam,
How are things? Did your school have any
community activities last summer?
We did some very interesting activities. We
collected rubbish in a nearby park. We also
planted trees. Then we watered them every
day, and it was enjoyable to watch them grow
up. We also had a lot of fun and learnt some
skills.
Please write to me and tell me about your
school activities.
Best,
Tom

What is the purpose of the first / second / third
paragraph of the email?
nam@webmail.com

School activities last summer

Greeting
Opening paragraph

Say why you are writing

Main paragraph

Give your news and say how you feel about it

Closing paragraph

Ask for a response/ make a suitable comment

Signing off

Dear Nam,
How are things? Did your school have any
community activities last summer?
We did some very interesting activities. We
collected rubbish in a nearby park. We also
planted trees. Then we watered them every day,
and it was enjoyable to watch them grow up. We
also had a lot of fun and learnt some skills.
Please write to me and tell me about your school
activities.
Best,
Tom

the format of the email
There are 5 parts in writing an email : Greeting, Opening paragraph, Main
paragraph, Closing paragraph and Signing up :
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

In the Greeting :
use “Dear, (name) ”
In the Opening paragraph : say the reason why you write this email .
In the Main paragraph : you give your news and say how you feel about it
In the Closing paragraph : you ask for a response or make a suitable comment
In the Signing up : you end your email with an ending phrase and your signature
Thanks! / With best wishes/ See you soon / Have a great day!

5. You are Nam. Now write an email of about 70 words to Tom
about your school activities last summer.
Start your email as shown below. tom@webmail.com
Greeting
Opening paragraph

Say why you are writing

Main paragraph

Give your news and say how you feel about it

Closing paragraph

Ask for a response/ make a suitable comment

Signing off

School activities last summer
Dear Tom,

Things are good. We also did some interesting
activities last summer.
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
See you soon.
With best wishes,
Nam,

WHILE-WRITING

5

You are Nam. Now write an email of about 70 words to Tom about your school
activities last summer. Start your email as shown below.

Sample writing.
nam@webmail.com

Greeting
Opening paragraph

Say why you are writing

Main paragraph

Give your news and say how you feel about it

Closing paragraph

Ask for a response/ make a suitable comment

Signing off

School activities last summer
Dear Tom,
Things are good. We also did some interesting
activities last summer.
______________________________________
This year, we did volunteer in the hospital. We
______________________________________
donated books and money for the sick
______________________________________
children. We also talked and read stories for
______________________________________
the sick patients. It helped them feel better.
______________________________________
We learnt some skills and we loved it.
______________________________________
See you soon.
With best wishes,
Nam,

CONSOLIDATION

1 WRAP-UP
In this lesson, we have learnt to:
 listen for specific information about some
community activities and their benefits;
 write an email about community activities
one did last summer.

CONSOLIDATION

2 HOMEWORK
 Rewrite the email on your notebook.
 Prepare for the next lesson: Looking back & Project

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