Unit 4 Volunteer work and Lieteracy progams
1. Objectives:
 Knowledge of volunteer acitvities in Vietnam.
 Benefits from doing volunteer activities.
 Expressing gratitude and responding to thanks.
 Writing a thank-you letter
 Language focus:
- Adjectives derived from Nouns.
- Reported speech
2. Visual teaching aids
 Board and chalk
 Pictures relating to the topic
 A tape and cassette player
 Handout
 Vocabulary paper attached.
3. Student’s level: 10
th
-form students
4. Class size: 40-50 students
5. Student’s background knowledge:
 Students have some vocabulary and background knowledge relating to volunteer activities.
 Students have known how to solve some social problem
 Students have soem knowledge of thank expression
6. Duration: 7 periods (45 minutes for each period)
A. Reading
1. Objectives:
 Read about volunteer work: checking facts, scanning for details
 Building vocabulary of various task of volunteer work
 Enhancing the reading skill through a new kind of exercise: completing a diagram.
2. Duration: 90 minutes
3. Aids: Textbook, board and chalk

+ Pic. C: Volunteers organize games activities for local
children
 While – reading
Guide in: to know more details about the vulunteer work, turn to the reading text in the next
page.
- Tell students to read the text in silent, hightlight the new words or expression.
- If available, play the tape of reading text. If not, divide the text into 2 parts and then call
students to read it out loud.
+ While reading, teacher can correct the student’s pronunciation.
- Read the text in silent, highlight the new words and phrases.
- Read out loud the text, other listen to the reader and scan for
information.
- Ask students to give the new words or phrases that they’ve found  explain the meaning and
form of word in both English and Vietnamese.
<list of new words and expression enclosed>
- Give the new word or phrase.
- Listen to the teacher and write down in their note books.
* Reading comprehension
- Task 1 <Exercise a, page 46>
+ Let students handle the task in pair: Read the text to indicate the activities done by the
students volunteers at Hiep Phuoc Village
- Work in pair. Discuss the answer and check for the relevant
statement.
+ Ask students to exchange the answer to cross-check.
 call some of them to read out loud their answers to the whole class
+ Key: 2-3-4-5
- Exchange answer to cross-check
- Check and correct answer.
- Task 2 <Exercise b, page 46> - Work in group
+ Have students work in group to find out more benefits gained by doing volunteer works. - Discuss to find out the information.

+ Teacher may give some clues/ new work.
+ Go round to share ideas and give help if necessary.
- Work in group, discuss the solution.
+ Call each groups’s representative to express their ideas.
+ Tell students of other groups to give feedback question.
+ Express group’s ideas in front of the class.
+ Give feedback to the other students.
+ Collect the ideas and give the most relevant solutions.
 There should be activities to show that going to school is compulsory for children and the
necessity of being educated to survive and live in the community.
 The government should take certain measures to ensure teachers’ good living and teaching
conditions.
 Local authorities should show considerable concern about building more schools and providing
convenient transportation so as to encourage children to go to school.
 Wrapping – homework
- Summarize the main points
- Homework: Summarize the reading text in 5 or 7 sentences.
Local
authorities
Teaching
condition/
facilities
Parents
Well-
qualified
teacher