Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 7 - Unit 3, Period 25: Skill 1

Week: 7th 	 Preparation day: ..
Period: 25 	 Teaching day: ...
Skill 1
I. Objectives: 
By the end of the lesson, students can understand about community service and volunteer work. 
II. Language contents: 
Grammar: (review present perfect tense) 
Vocabulary: statistics, one-fifth, (to) be forced, (to) raise money, transportation 
Skills: integrated 4 skills (focus on reading and speaking skills). 
III. Classroom arrangement: 
Individual work, pair work, group work 
IV. Teaching aids: 
Pictures, textbook and cassette player
V. Procedure: 
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Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Contents 
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- T asks Ss to remind the American volunteer activities. 
- T monitors the activities and leads in the lesson. 
Pre-teach vocabulary 
- T elicits vocabulary: 
. situation: Every week each of you donates 1000 VND and the class keeps this money to help poor students. You are raising fun.
. Examples: cars, motorbikes, bus, taxi. 
. Visual: 1/5 
. Example: There are 26 students in class 7/4: 18 girls and 8 boys à 26 students, 18 girls, 8 boys are statistics. 
. situation: It’s very cold. I don’t want to turn on the air conditioner. They always ask me to turn it on, so I must turn it on. I am forced to do so. 
- T uses CCQs for each word. 
- T checks: Matching the words with the examples or situations. 
- T confirms their answers. 
Pre reading 
- T asks Ss to remind some of the American volunteer activities and leads in the text: “You are going to read the text about volunteer work in the United States.” 
- T asks Ss a question for them to guess “Do Americans enjoy doing volunteer work?” 
- T writes their predictions on the board and asks Ss to read the text and checks. 
While reading 
Read for gist 
- T confirms their answers. 
Read for details 
- T gives ICQs for task 2. 
- T confirms the answers. 
- T gives ICQs for task 3. 
- T confirms their answers. 
Post reading 
- T puts the table on the board and asks Ss to give ideas for volunteer activities. 
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- Ss name the activities they have learnt about in the last lesson (Communication). 
- Ss listen, repeat, answer the questions and copy. 
- Ss come to the board and do the task. 
- Ss remind the activities and listen to the situation. 
- Ss guess the answers for the questions. 
- Ss read the text and check their predictions. 
- Ss read the text and complete the task. Then compare and give the answers. 
- Ss complete task 3. Then compare and give the answers. 
- Ss complete the table individually. 
Then work in groups to share the ideas with their friends. 
Ss give ideas for volunteer activities
Warm up: Brainstorming 
The American volunteer activities
 + Talk to and sing for the elderly at a nursing home 
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Vocabulary 
- (to) raise fun[reiz fʌn]: gây quỹ 
- transportation (n) [trænsfɔ 'tei∫n]: phương tiện chuyên chở 
- one –fifth [wʌn fifθ]: 1/5 
- statistics (pl.n) [stə'tistiks]: số liệu 
- (to) be forced [fɔ:st]: bị ép buộc 
Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the following situations or examples:
Words/ phrases 
1. raising fun 
2. Transportation 
3. One-fifth 
4. Statistics 
5. are forced 
Situations/ examples: 
a. It’s very cold. I don’t want to turn on the air conditioner. They always ask me to turn it on, so I must turn it on. I ... to do so. 
b. There are 26 students in class 7/4: 18 girls and 8 boys à 26 students, 18 girls, 8 boys are 
c. Cars, motorbikes, bus, taxi are called ..
d. 1/5 : 
e. Every week each of you donates 1000 VND and the class keeps this money to help poor students. You are .. 
Volunteer activities for teenagers in the United States. 
 (textbook, page 31) 
Pre- question: 
 Do Americans enjoy doing volunteer work? 
(textbook, page 32)
Answer key: 
à Yes. They enjoy it. 
2. Decide if the following statements are True (T) or False (F). 
(Textbook. Page 32)
Answer key: 
T
T
F 
(The text says Americans have had the tradition of volunteering since the early days of the country. The USA was “born”, or declared its independence, in 1776.)
F 
(Americans volunteer because they enjoy it, and not because they are forced or paid to do it.) 
3. Which of the activities below are traditional volunteer activities in the United States? Tick in the boxes. 
(textbook, page 32)
Answer key: 
1. providing care for animals 
2. raising money 
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3. cooking meals 
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4. donating blood 
5. cleaning streets 
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6. teaching young children 
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Speaking 
4. Fill in the table with your ideas for volunteer activities. 
- To raise money, we could 
+ make postcards and sell them.
- To provide food, we could ..
+ cook food and bring it to street children. 
- To help repair things, we could .
- To help people with transportation, we could ..
- To tutor young children, we could .. 
5. Work in groups. Share the ideas in your idea bank with your group members. Then, use the most interesting ideas to create a new group idea bank and share it with the class. 
A: We could make postcards and sell them to raise money.
B: What types of postcards?
C: Where should we sell them?
VII. Homework: 3’
Learn new words and review the idea bank 
Prepare Unit 3: (cont) Skills 2. 
VIII. Remarks: