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COMMUNITY SERVICE
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED

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HOBBIES

WARM-UP

Describe the picture.

Community service

* Community service
- donate clothes, book, money,….
- clean the street,..
- Planting trees, vegetables
- pick up litter
 - help homeless people

Community service
The work that people do to
help others without paying

* Vocabulary
- community activity (n.phr.): hoạt động cộng đồng
/kəˈmjuːnɪti ækˈtɪvɪti/

- donate (v):
/dəʊˈneɪt/

quyên góp, ủng hộ

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

- homeless (adj): vô gia cư
/ˈhəʊmləs/

* Vocabulary
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

* Answer some questions
- What can you see in the pictures?
- Where do you think the boys and the girls are?
- What do you think they are doing?
 In picture 1: I can see a boy with a box. He is arranging
books and toys (and may be clothes).
I n picture 2: I can see a girl and some small children. They
are in a classroom. The girl is teaching the small children.
 In picture 3: I can see two girls and a boy. They are in
the garden.They are gardening.
 

* 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.

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

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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. ______

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

clean

donate
4. _________
clothes

donate

recycle

help

clean the playground
5. ________

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
old people

homeless children

planted

litter

taught

1. We collected clothes and gave them to _________________.
2. Those students picked up all the __________ on the street.
3. We helped ____________ in the nursing home last Sunday.
4. The club members ________ maths to primary students during school holidays.
5. We __________ a lot of trees in the park last summer.

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2

5

Who's faster?

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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 _________________.

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
old people

homeless children

planted

litter

litter
2. Those students picked up all the __________
on the street.

taught

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
old people

homeless children

planted

litter

old people
3. We helped ____________in the nursing home last Sunday.

taught

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
old people

homeless children
taught

planted

litter

taught

4. The club members ________ maths to primary students during
school holidays.

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
old people

homeless children

planted

litter

planted
5. We __________ a lot of trees in the park last summer.

taught

you get 1 plus point

4 Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
old people

homeless children

planted

litter

taught

children
1. We collected clothes and gave them to homeless
_________________.
litter
2. Those students picked up all the __________
on the street.
old people
3. We helped ____________
in the nursing home last Sunday.
taught maths to primary students during school holidays.
4. The club members ________
planted
5. We __________
a lot of trees in the park last summer.

* 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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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

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HOMEWORK

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

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