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THIS UNIT INCLUDES:
Vocabulary
Community activities
Pronunciation
Sounds: /t/, /d/, and /id/
Grammar
Past simple
Skills
• Reading about community activities at a school.
• Talking about the reasons why students join different community activities
• Listening to a talk about some community activities and their benefits
• Writing an email about community activities one did last summer
Everyday English
Giving compliments
👉GETTING STARTED
Sounds like great work!
1. Listen and read. 🎧
Minh: Hi, Tom. Are you back in Ha Noi?
Tom: Yes. I came back yesterday. Can we meet up this Sunday morning? I bought you a board game.
Minh: Sure, I can't wait! But our Green School Club will have some community activities on that morning.
Tom: What activities does your club do?
Minh: Well, we pick up litter around our school and plant vegetables in our school garden.
Tom: School gardening? That's fantastic!
Minh: Yes. We donate the vegetables to a nursing home. Does your school have any activities like these?
Tom: Yes. We donate books to homeless children. We also have English classes. Last summer, we taught English to 30 kids in the area.
Minh: Sounds like great work!
Tom: Thanks.
Minh: ... So, let's meet in the afternoon then.
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2. Read the conversation again and tick() the appropriate box.
| Community activity | Minh's club | Tom's club |
| 1. picking up litter | ||
| 2. planting vegetables | ||
| 3. donating books | ||
| 4. donating vegetables | ||
| 5. teaching English |
3. Complete the phrases under the pictures with the verbs below.
pick up clean donate
recycle help
1. ________ litter 2. _______ homeless 3. _____ plastic bottles 4. ______ clothes 5. _____ the playground
children
4. Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases below.
| old people homeless children planted litter taught |
1. We collected clothes and gave them to _____.
2. Those students picked up all the _____on the street.
3. We helped _____ in the nursing home last Sunday.
4. The club members _____ maths to primary students during school holidays.
5. We _____ a lot of trees in the park last summer.
5. GAME Vocabulary Ping-pong
Work in two teams. Team A provides a cue word. Team B makes up a sentence with it. Then switch roles.
Example:
Team A: Litter
Team B: We often pick up litter in the park. Trees
Team A: We plant trees in our school every year. Book
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