Unit 03. Community Service. Lesson 5. Skills 1

WELCOME  TO  OUR  CLASS
ENGLISH 7
COMMUNITY SERVICE
By: Le Viet Phu
Unit 3:
WARM-UP: What community service are these?
donate books
clean up beaches
plant trees
donate blood
visit the elderly
give lessons to street children
Unit 3:
COMMUNITY SERVICE
NEW LESSON
SKILLS 1
READING
Vocabulary
at one time or another (exp)
government statistics (n)
force (v)
general labour (n)
clean-up project (n)
home repair (n)
transportation (n)
give rides to s.b (v)
tutor (v)
mentor (v)
lúc này hay lúc khác
thống kê nhà nước
ép buộc, bắt ép
lao động phổ thông
đề án làm vệ sinh
việc sửa chữa nhà cửa
phương tiện đi lại
chở ai đi
dạy kèm
chỉ dẫn, chỉ dạy
1. Read the text about volunteer work in the United States.
In the United States, almost everyone, at one time or another, has been a volunteer. According to U.S. government statistics, about one-fifth of the American population does volunteer work each year. Americans have had the tradition of volunteering and helping one another since the early days of the country.
Americans volunteer not because they are forced or paid to do it. They enjoy it! Traditional volunteer activities include raising money for people in need, cooking and giving food, doing general labour (such as clean-up projects and home repair), providing transportation (such as giving rides to the elderly), and tutoring/mentoring young people.
(adapted from "Volunteering: An American Tradition" by Susan J.Ellis and Katherine H.Campbell in eJoumal USA: The Spirit of Volunteerism. U.S. Department of State, 2012).
2. Decide if the following statements are true or false (F).
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3. Which of the activities below are traditional volunteer activities in the United States? Tick () the boxes.
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SPEAKING
4. Idea bank: Fill in the table with your ideas for volunteer activities.

repair the roofs of their houses and other
household appliances
give rides to the elderly
offer free bus tickets to disabled people/the poor
provide homework help before/ after school
offer evening classes for street children
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.
Example:
A: We could make postcards and sell them to raise money.
B: What types of postcards?
A: We could make paper / wooden / leather …postcards
C: Where should we sell them?
A: We could sell them in the market / to the bookstores…
G1: To raise money, we could
+ collect waste paper / used glass / bottles and sell them
+ Save from the money for breakfast
+ make post cards and sell them ,….
G2: To provide food, we could 
+ Cook food and bring it to street children 
+ plant vegetables at school ground and take them to the elderly people 
+ Offer coupons for breakfast / lunch / dinner for the poor people ,…
G3: To help repair things, we could 
+ help the old rebuild their houses, fix the roofs…
+ help them repair the household appliances,…
Suggestion for discussion
G4: To help people with transportation, we could 
+ Give rides to the elderly; Give people a lift…
+ Take old people across the road
+ Offer free bus tickets to disabled people / the poor ,…
+ Direct the traffic; Clean and make streets clear…
G5: To tutor young children, we could 
+ Provide homework help before or after school
+ Offer evening classes for street children
+ Donate books, notebooks and other school things 
G6: To recycle rubbish, we could
+ Collect paper, glass, bottles, cans for reusing or recycling
+ Ask and encourage people to classify rubbish for recycling
+ Put garbage bins in the schoolyard, along the streets,..
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