UNIT 1: CHARITY

Lesson 1.1: Vocabulary

I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson, Ss are expected to achieve the following objectives:
1. Knowledge
- Vocabulary: Retrieve the meaning of the keywords below:
● Voluntary work: collect rubbish, help the animals, donate blood, help the elderly, teach children, do volunteer
work in the hospital.
● Charity activities: donate money, help sick people, help the needy, plant trees, raise money
2. Competencies:
a. General competencies:
Develop collaboration skills in the 6Cs of the 21st century skills framework: working in pairs and in teams.

b. Specific competencies:
Use the words and phrases to talk about voluntary work and charity activities.
3. Qualities:
- Being hard-working and attentive in class
- Have a positive attitude towards the lesson
- Have the motivation to do charity and volunteering

II. PREPARATIONS
Teacher: Textbooks, PowerPoint slides, TV, projector, loudspeaker
Students: Textbooks, notebooks
Language analysis
Vietnamese
Form Pronunciation Meaning
equivalent
1. collect /kəˈlekt ˈrʌbɪʃ/ to get waste material or things that are no thu gom rác
rubbish (vp) longer wanted or needed
2. donate blood /dəʊˈneɪt blʌd/ to allow a trained person to take some hiến máu
(vp) blood from your body so that it can be
stored and is ready to be given to people
who have lost a lot of blood in an accident
or operation
3. help the /help ðə to make it easier or possible for the old to giúp đỡ người già
elderly (vp) ˈeldəli/ do something by doing something for
them or by giving them something that
they need
4. volunteer (v) /ˌvɒlənˈtɪə/ often without having been asked to do it tình nguyện
and/or without expecting payment
5. charity activity /ˈtʃærəti æk an activity helps and supports people who hoạt động từ thiện
(np) ˈtɪvəti/ are ill or very poor, or who have a
disability

Assumptions 
Anticipated difficulties Solutions
- Students may have difficulty remembering - Use pictures/ photos or videos of some voluntary work and charity
voluntary work and charity activities. activities to show them in the class. 

- Students may not know how to work in teams.  - Give short, clear instructions and help if necessary.

Board Plan

Date of teaching
Unit 1: CHARITY
Lesson 1.1: Vocabulary
* WARM-UP
Game: Brainstorming!
I. Vocabulary
1. collect rubbish /kəˈlekt ˈrʌbɪʃ/ (vp): thu gom rác
2. donate blood /dəʊˈneɪt blʌd/ (vp): hiến máu
3. help the elderly /help ðə ˈeldəli/ (vp): giúp đỡ người già
4. volunteer /ˌvɒlənˈtɪə/ (v): tình nguyện
5. charity activity /ˈtʃærəti ækˈtɪvəti/ (np): hoạt động từ thiện
Activity 1: Matching.
II. Practice
Activity 2: Reading.
Activity 3: Complete the sentences.
Activity 4: Matching the sentences.
III. Production:
Discuss
IV. Homework:
- Do exercises on Workbook page 44
 - Prepare Unit 5 Lesson 2 Grammar 1.

III. PROCEDURES
Notes:
In each activity, each step will be represented as following:
* Task delivering
** Task performance
*** Report and discussion
**** Judgment

Stage Stage aim Procedure Interactio Time

n
WARM-UP - To introduce the BRAINSTORMING! 5 mins
unit topic ACTIVITY 1: Work in groups.
(voluntary work S-S
and charity - T divides Ss into 4 groups and gives instructions: to name all
activities); the words connected with charity.
- To introduce some
vocabulary related E.g.
to charity.
Support, care, donation, homeless, generous, …
T-S
 - T counts how many words each group can list.
PRESENTATI - To help students VOCABULARY 8 mins
ON use key language - T asks Ss to look at the photos to guess the meaning of T-S
more appropriately new words.
before they read
- Ss say the Vietnamese meaning of the word.
the text.

1. collect rubbish /kəˈlekt ˈrʌbɪʃ/ (vp): thu gom rác

2. donate blood /dəʊˈneɪt blʌd/ (vp): hiến máu
3. help the elderly /help ðə ˈeldəli/ (vp): giúp đỡ người già
4. volunteer /ˌvɒlənˈtɪə/ (v): tình nguyện
5. charity activity /ˈtʃærəti ækˈtɪvəti/ (np): hoạt động từ thiện
- To teach some T-S
- Other Ss correct if the previous answers are incorrect.
new voluntary
phrases. - T shows the Vietnamese meaning, says the words aloud
 and asks Ss to repeat them.
ACTIVITY 1. MATCHING (SB.p.48)
- T tells Ss to look at some pictures in Exercise 1 on
Student’s Book on page 48.
- T elicits which volunteer activities they are.
- T guides Ss to do Exercise 1: match the pictures with the
activities.
- Ss do Exercise 1.
- T pairs Ss up to check the answers then confirms with the
whole class.
- T teaches Ss the correct pronunciation and ask them to
repeat the words after the T.
- T checks the meanings of some words.
Answers:
1 donate blood
2 do vulunteer work in the hospital
3 teach children
4 collect rubbish
5 help the elderly
6 help the animals
PRACTICE ACTIVITY 2: READING (SB.p.49) T-S 6 mins
- To identify - T check Ss’ understading of the red words.
specific information
about volunteer - T gives Ss one minute to read the text then tells them to
activities in the text. close their books.
 - T asks Ss to recall what they remember about the text. T
asks them to open their books again and read the text
again from the beginning.
- T asks Ss to do Exercise 2.
- Ss do Exercise 2.
- T asks Ss to check their answers with their partners.
- Check with the whole class.

Answers:
1T
2T
3T T-S 7 mins
- To recall and 4T
apply the learnt 5F
words in real
context. ACTIVITY 3: COMPLETE THE SENTENCES (SB.p.49)
- T asks Ss to recall the meanings of the red words by
making sentences using those words.
- Ss work in pairs to make sentences.
- T calls some pairs to check.
- Ss work in pairs to do the task.
- T develops further discussion if needed.
- T guides Ss to do Exercise 3.
- Ss have 30 seconds to read through the sentences before
listen to the audio.
- T plays the audio 5.01
 - Ss listen and do Exercise 3 individually.
- T checks their answers.
Answers:
7 mins
1 homeless shelter
- To expand 2 needy
vocabulary related 3 first-aid kit
to the learnt topic. 4 medical supplies
5 blankets
6 donate

ACTIVITY 4: COMPLETE THE SENTENCES (SB.p.49)

PRODUCTIO - To practice in
N group by
- T asks Ss to look at the red words and check their
understanding of those words if necessary.
- T guides Ss to do Exercise 4.
- Ss complete exercise individually.
- T checks their answers.
- T develops further discussion if needed.
Answers:
1 help the needy
2 donate money
3 plant trees
4 help sick people
5 raise money
ACTIVITY 5: DISCUSSION (SB.p.49) 8 mins
- T shows a video about volunteer activities in Việt Nam. T-S
 discussing about - T asks Ss to watch and take note about:
volunteer  Who the activities can benefit.
activities.  Where the activities are done.
 Who joins in the activities.
- T divides Ss into 4-5 groups.
S-S
- Based on the video and suggested ideas above, each group
makes a presentation about the topic: Volunteer activities
in your local community.
- T invites some groups to present their works.
- T checks with the whole class.

WRAP UP - To help students - T asks Ss: What have you learnt today? T-S 3 mins
memorise the
- Some items and phrases about volunteer activities.
target language
and skills that they - Reading for specific information.
have learned

HOMEWORK - To review the - T assigns the home assignments. T-S 1 min

lesson and
- Ss copy their home assignments.
prepare for the
next lesson. - T explains it carefully.
HOMEWORK
- Do exercises on Workbook page 44
- Prepare Unit 5 Lesson 2 Grammar 1.