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COMMUNITY
SERVICE
LESSON 4: COMMUNICATION

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HOBBIES

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
o know how to give compliments
o discuss and present the benefits of community
activities

Kim's game
1

Read books to elderly people

Give gifts to old peole
5

4

Plant trees in the park
7

3

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Pick up litter

Exchange used paper
for notebooks
6

Help homeless children
8

Donate clothes to poor children

Recycle plastic bottles
9

Clean the playground

2 ways to give compliments:
- Sounds like great work!
- Wonderful!

EVERYDAY ENGLISH
Mark

Lan
- What did you do to help your community
last summer, Mark?
- Sounds like great work! We collected books
and warm clothes for our friends in the
mountainous areas.

- We planted some trees in the
schoolyard and picked up a lot of
rubbish along the nearby roads.
- Wonderful!

EVERYDAY ENGLISH
Make similar conversations.

1. - helped lonely elderly people.
2. - cleaned and decorated parts of
the neighbourhood.

EVERYDAY ENGLISH

- What did you do to help your community
last summer?

- We …………………………………..

- Sounds like great work!
We …………………………………………………………..
- Wonderful!

Read the poster about the volunteer activities for teenagers at Lending Hand.

CHANGING OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
Read the poster about the volunteer activities for teenagers at Lending Hand.
Write the project number (1 – 3) next
to its benefit (A – E)
Benefits

3 A. making the elderly less lonely
______
1 B. making the neighbourhood greener
______
2 C. helping feed children
______
2 D. helping children have a better future
______
1 E. making the neighbourhood cleaner
______
You can plant trees in your area. This makes the neighbourhood greener.

CHANGING OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

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Ask and answer which activities in Task 3
you want to join. Give reasons.

Example:
Minh: Which activity do you want to join?
Lan: I want to join some clean-up activities.
Minh: Why do you want to join these activities?
Lan: because they make the neighbourhood cleaner

CHANGING OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

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Discuss which activity each member of your
group chooses and the benefit(s) of the activity.

Example:
Mai wants to donate food to street children
because this helps feed them. Lan wants to
join clean-up activities because these
activities make our neighbourhood cleaner …

CONSOLIDATION

1

WRAP-UP

In this lesson, we have learn to:
 know how to give compliments
 discuss and present the benefits of
community activities

CONSOLIDATION

2

HOMEWORK

 Think about some environmental problems in
your neighbourhood and the activities you want
to do to solve those problems.