Nguyễn Thị Thanh Phương
Nguyễn Công Trứ- NB

Take turns to name activities you can do to help the community

What
do
these
activities
mean
for
the
community?
teaching poor
help the elderly
cross the street

help disabled people

children to study

for a better community
delivering free meals

Join in traffic
instructions

Clean up the street

Unit
Uni
t

4

LIFE
1 FAMILY
FOR
A BETTER
COMMUNITY

LESSON 2

LANGUAGE

I. Pronunciation: Stress in two-syllable words with the same spelling
Act 1. Listen to the sentences and circle the word with the stress you hear.

1. The centre keeps a record of all donations.

a. 'record
b. re'cord
2. We will record the charity live show for those who can't watch it live.
a. 'record
b. re'cord
3. There was an increase in house prices last year.
a. 'increase
b. in'crease
4. We want to increase students' interest in volunteering at the community
centre.
a. 'increase
b. in'crease
5. I got this present from a visitor to our centre.
a. 'present
b. pre'sent
6. We need to help local businesses to export their products.
a. 'export
b. ex'port

I. Pronunciation:
Act 2: Listen again and practise saying the sentences in 1.
1. The centre keeps a record of all donations.
2. We will record the charity live show for those who can't watch it
live.
3. There was an increase in house prices last year.
4. We want to increase students' interest in volunteering at the
community centre.
5. I got this present from a visitor to our centre.
6. We need to help local businesses to export their products.

II. VOCABULARY
Act 1. Match the words with their meanings.
1. donate (v)
2. volunteer (n)
3. generous (adj)
4. remote (adj)
5. benefit (n)

a. giving or willing to give freely
b. far away from places where people live
c. to give money, food, clothes, etc. to a
charity

d. to give a better position because of
something, to be useful to somebody.

e. a person who does a job without being
paid for it

II. VOCABULARY
Act 2: Complete the following sentences using the correct forms of
the words in 1.
1. He is very ___________.
He is always willing to give a lot of
generous
money to charity.
2. The school is difficult to get to because it is located in a _______
remote
area.
3. If you don't have time to volunteer, you can donate
________ money
and food.
4. This clean water project will ________
benefit the people in the village.
5. Our club needs more volunteers
___________ to clean up the park at the
weekend.

II. VOCABULARY
Act 3: Choose the correct word to complete each of the following
sentences.
1. We need to be careful / careless when we record the donations.
2. I am interested / interesting in community development activities.
3. There are excited / exciting volunteering opportunities in our
community.
4. Last year, I was hopeful / hopeless at maths. I couldn't even do
simple addition in my head.
1. Adjective attitude:
V- ed and V- ing
Note:
V- ed ( chỉ trạng thái của người)
V- ing ( chỉ trạng thái của vật và sự vật)
2. Adjective suffixes: -ed, ing, ful, less

III. Grammar
Act 1: Choose the correct verb form in each of the following sentences.

1. While Lan was working / worked as a volunteer in the
countryside, she met an old friend.
2. I was revising for civics class when my dad was telling / told
me about the volunteer job.
3. We saw many unhappy children while we were helping /
helped people in remote areas.
4. He was sorting donations when he was realising / realised
how generous people were.

III. Grammar
Act 2: Combine the two sentences using when or while where appropriate.
1. They were cleaning the streets. It started to rain
-> While they were cleaning the streets, it started to rain.
They were cleaning the streets when it started to rain.
2. I was watching TV. I saw the floods and landslides in the area.
-> While I was watching TV, I saw the floods and landslides in the area.
I was watching TV when I saw the floods and landslides in the area.
3. Tim was searching for employment opportunities. He found a job advert
from a non-governmental organisation.
-> While Tim was searching for employment opportunities, he found a job
advert from a non-governmental organisation.
Tim was searching for employment opportunities when he found a job
advert from a non-governmental organisation.

Consolidation
Choose A, B, C or D to complete the sentences

1. They were so ____ about joining the local volunteer group that they couldn't
sleep last night.
A. excite
B. excitement
C. exciting
D. excited
2. It is ____ that all the students in class 1OA choose to do a project on 'Helping the
needy'.
A. surprising
B. surprised
C. surprise
D. surprisingly
3. Most of the students in that special school are making good progress, but Michael
is a ____ case.
A. hopefully
B. hopeless
C. hopeful
D. hopelessly
4. We ____ in silence when he suddenly asked me to help him.
A. was walking
B. were walking
C. walked
D. walk
5. I ____ my pen while I was doing my homework.
A. was breaking
B. were breaking
C. Broke
D. break

LeDinhXo-The English teacher of LeVietTao high s
chool- U12: Music- Part B: Speaking- Period 74