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COMMUNITY SERVICE
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED

Sounds like great work!

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HOBBIES

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community activity (n.phr.)
/kəˈmjuːnəti ækˈtɪvəti/
hoạt động cộng đồng

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donate (v)
/dəʊˈneɪt/
quyên góp, ủng hộ

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nursing home (n.phr.)
/ˈnɜːsɪŋ həʊm/
viện dưỡng lão

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homeless (adj)
/ˈhəʊmləs/
vô gia cư

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New words

Pronunciation

Meaning

community activity

/kəˈmjuːnɪti ækˈtɪvɪti/

hoạt động cộng đồng

donate

/dəʊˈneɪt/

quyên góp, ủng hộ

nursing home

/ˈnɜːsɪŋ həʊm/

viện dưỡng lão

homeless

/ˈhəʊmləs/

vô gia cư

PRACTICE

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.

PRACTICE

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

PRACTICE

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

pick up litter
1. ________

clean

donate

recycle

help

recycle plastic bottles
help homeless children 3. _______
2. ______

PRACTICE

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

clean

donate clothes
4. _________

donate

recycle

help

clean the playground
5. ________

PRACTICE

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 school holidays.
4. The club members ________
planted a lot of trees in the park last summer.
5. We __________

PRODUCTION

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
Team A: We plant trees in our school every year.
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