Week: 08 Date of planning: 03/10/2022

Period: 21 Date of teaching: 24/10-29/10/22

UNIT 3: COMMUNITY SERVICE

Lesson 6: Skills 2
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson, Ss will be able to:
1. Knowledge:
- Listen for specific information about some community activities and their benefits;.
- Write an email about community activities one did last summer.
2. Core competence:
- Develop communication skills and creativity
- Be collaborative and supportive in pair work and teamwork
- Actively join in class activities
3. Personal qualities
- Develop self-study skills
- Raise students’ awareness of the need to keep their neighborhood green.
II. MATERIALS
- Grade 7 textbook, Unit 3, Skills 2
- Computer connected to the Internet
- Projector/ TV/ pictures and cards
- sachmem.vn
Assumptions

Anticipated difficulties Solutions

1. Students may lack knowledge about how - Prepare some suggestions on vocabularies and
to brainstorm keywords/phrases for listening. listening techniques to instruct students.

2. Students may have underdeveloped
listening, speaking and co-operating skills.
- Play the recording, the replay depends on students’
needs.
- Encourage students to work in pairs, and in groups
so that they can help each other.
- Provide feedback and help if necessary.

III. PROCEDURES

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Stage Stage aim Procedure Interaction Time

WARM-UP/ - To lead in the GAME: WHO IS FASTER? (Modified from

topic of the Ex 1, p.35)
PRE-LISTENING
lesson: school - T divides the class into two big teams. T
community
activities in - T shows 5 pictures of 5 different activities
summer. (Appendix A) one by one and requires Ss to
guess the names of the activities by slapping the
- To help Ss T-Ss
table. For each round, the team that guesses the
brainstorm correct answer faster will receive 1 point. After
keywords/ five rounds, the one that has more correct
phrases for answers will be the winner.
listening
- T checks Ss’ understanding of the rules by T-Ss 5 mins
asking some questions:
+ Which team are you in?
+ What are you going to guess?
+ How can you get the chance to answer?
- Ss join the game Ss
- T checks Ss’ answers while keeping the
scores. T-Ss
- T congratulates the winner.
T-Ss
- T leads to the lesson: “Through this game, you
have been reminded of some community T-Ss
activities. “School community activities in
summer” is also the topic of our listening and
writing lesson today. So, let’s come to Unit 3 -
Lesson 6: Skills 2 on p.35”
- T asks Ss to open their notebooks and write
down the title of the lesson. T-Ss

WHILE-LISTENING - To draw TASK 1: LISTEN TO TOM AND LINDA

students’ TALKING ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY
attention to ACTIVITIES LAST SUMMER. CIRCLE
listening skills: THE CORRECT ANSWERS. (Ex 2, p. 35)
predicting, - T informs Ss that they are going to listen to
identifying Tom and Linda talking about their community T-Ss
keywords, and activities last summer to answer some specific
listening for questions.
specific details.
- T requires Ss to read through 4 questions in 5 mins
Ex 2, then find and underline the keywords in
each question. (30s)

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T-Ss
(T takes question 1 as an example: “Let’s take
an example. Look at question 1, what are the
keywords in this question?”
Expected answer: Linda, friends, taught)
- Ss are called randomly to present their
underlined words. T checks the keywords for
the whole class. (30s)
Keywords in the questions: T-Ss
Q1: Linda, friends, taught
Q2: Linda, friends, elderly
Q3: Tom, friends, picked up
Q4: Tom, friends
- T plays the recording once for Ss to listen and
circle the answers.
- T allows Ss to peer check.
T-Ss
(If there is much time, T plays the recording a
second time for Ss to check their answers
again.) Ss
- After that, some Ss are called to present their
answers. T confirms the answers and gives
feedback.
Answer key: T-Ss
1. C
2. B
3. C
4. A

- To continue TASK 3: LISTEN AGAIN AND FILL IN

to improve EACH BLANK WITH NO MORE THAN
students’ TWO WORDS. (Ex 3, p. 35)
listening skills: - T asks Ss to read the table and focus on the T-Ss
predicting, key information.
identifying
keywords, and - T asks Ss to think about the part of speech of
the words/phrases they will need to use for each T-Ss
listening for
specific details. blank (e.g. adjective, verb or noun). T reminds
Ss of the possible plural and singular forms of
- To improve nouns. (30s)
students’
listening → T checks the answers with Ss (30s)
comprehension

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and note- (1) Plural/Uncountable noun

taking skills. (2) Countable noun 6 mins
(3) Plural noun
- T reminds Ss that they should write no more
than TWO words for each blank. T-Ss
- T plays the recording again. Ask Ss to listen
and fill in the blanks. (2’) Ss
- After that, Ss peer-check with a partner. (1’) Pair work
- T calls some Ss to give the answers to the
class and correct the mistakes where necessary. T-Ss
(1’)
Answer key:
1. fun
2. good time
3. skills

PRE-WRITING - To provide Ss TASK 4: READ TOM’S EMAIL TO NAM 12 mins

with a sample ABOUT HIS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES LAST
of an email. SUMMER. (Ex 4, p. 35)
- To improve - T asks Ss to work individually to read the
Ss’ reading email. (1’) Ss
skills. * Group work
- To prepare Ss - T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 (2 tables/a Group
for the writing group) work
activity.
1. In groups, Ss have to answer some questions
to elicit the format of an email (3’):
a. Who is writing to whom?
b. What is the subject of the email?
c. How did Tom start his email?
d. How did Tom end his email?
e. What is the purpose of the
first/second/third paragraph of the
email?
Suggested answer:
a. Tom is writing an email to Nam
b. School activities last summer
c. Tom started his email by writing “Dear

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Nam,”
d. Tom ended his email by writing “Best,”
and signing his name
e. P1: Showing interest in the reader
P2: Giving the reasons for writing
P3: Saying goodbye
- T gives feedback and provides the structure of
an informal email to the whole class. (Appendix
B) (2’) T
2. T asks Ss to discuss and underline (2’)
+ the main activities that Tom and his
friends did, Group
+ the words/phrases that show their work
feelings,
+ the words/phrases that show the benefits
of their activities.
Expected answer:
+ collected rubbish in a nearby park,
planted trees, watered trees
+ enjoyable
+ have a lot of fun & learn some skills
- T checks the answers with the whole class.
- After that, T asks Ss to brainstorm other (3’)
+ school activities
+ words/phrases that show the benefits of Group
the activities work
+ words/phrases that show feelings
- T calls 2 groups to present their ideas to
check. Then, T provides a table of suggestions
(Appendix C) (2’)
- T reminds Ss to use the structures and the
suggested language in their own email.

WHILE-WRITING - To provide Ss TASK 5: YOU ARE NAM. NOW WRITE

with a chance AN EMAIL OF ABOUT 70 WORDS TO
to apply the TOM ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL
structure and ACTIVITIES LAST SUMMER. START
language that YOUR EMAIL AS SHOWN BELOW. (Ex 5,
they have

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learned in p. 35)
writing an - Ss work individually to write their email using Ss 10 mins
email to a the structure and the recommended language.
friend talking
about school - T asks 2 Ss to come to the board and write T-Ss
activities. their emails. Meanwhile, T goes around the
class to help others.

POST-LISTENING To peer check, TASK 6: FEEDBACK AND CORRECTION

& WRITING cross-check - T asks Ss to take a look at the two emails on
and final check the board and give comments on spelling,
students’ T-Ss 5 mins
content and the organization of ideas, etc.
writing.
- Then, T then gives feedback as a class
discussion.

WRAP-UP To consolidate T asks Ss to talk about what they have learnt in T-Ss 1 min
what students the lesson.
have learnt in
the lesson.

HOMEWORK To allow Ss to - Complete the email in their notebook. T-Ss 1 min

finalize their - Do Part E. Writing, Ex 1-2-3, p. 23, WB
paragraph after
being checked - Prepare for the next lesson: Lesson 7: Looking
by friends and back and Project.
the teacher.

APPENDIX A: VOCABULARY

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1. Teach English to homeless children

2. Donating clothes

3. Planting trees

4. picking up rubbish

5. reading books to the elderly

APPENDIX B: STRUCTURE OF AN INFORMAL EMAIL

I. Greeting
● Dear Mai,
● Hi John,

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II. Body
1. Introductory paragraph:
● Have you been feeling well lately?
● How are things going?
● How are things?
● Thanks so much for the last email!
● Sorry for not getting back to you soon enough!
2. 2nd paragraph: Main Body: Giving the reasons for writing
3. Final paragraph:
● Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you again soon.
● Let me know if you have any more questions.
● I’ll get back to you as soon as possible…
● Hoping to see you soon!
III. Signing Off / Closing
- Sign-offs
● Best,
● Take care,
● Best Wishes,
● Lots of love,
- Signature

APPENDIX C: SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

Activities - donating books/clothes/bags
- tutoring homeless children
- recycling plastic bottles
- cleaning the playground/the streets/the nursing home
- picking up litter
- planting trees
- reading books for the elderly
- cooking food for homeless children
- writing encouraging notes

Benefits - having a lot of fun

- gaining some skills (communication skills, teamwork, time
management skill, etc)
- feeling useful
- staying physically healthy
- providing career experience

Feelings - enjoyable
- wonderful
- memorable
- great