Урок "Волонтерський рух в Україні та світі "
Lesson Plan
Volunteering
Form: 8
Aims:
- To practice speaking skills: fluency, consolidating recently taught language
- To develop character-related lexis
- To practice reading skills: scanning
- To practice listening skills: gist
- To activate interest and elicit personal experience
Outcomes:
Students will be able:
- to talk about volunteer jobs, the benefits to themselves and the community and give examples
- to read, think and evaluate information they have read critically
- consider how their interests and skills would best match up with available volunteer opportunities in their communities
- reflect on their volunteer experiences in writing
Volunteering (teacher’s notes)
- Warm up
(Activity 1) 1 min
Aims: to break the ice and foster a safe environment for learning
Procedure: ask students to write down different words they associate with the word “Help”
(slide1 “HELP”)
- Help association
(slide2 “Volunteer = unpaid professional”)
- Lead in
(Activity 2) 1 min
Aims: to revise the vocabulary of the lesson.
Procedure: ask students to think about the traits of character that are important when thinking about volunteers. Ask students to brainstorm as many ideas as they can and to write them down.
(slide3” Volunteer”)
- What kind of person is a volunteer? Explain your choice.
- Speaking
(Activity 3) 3 mins
Aims: to provide students with speaking practice and apply lesson vocabulary in practice
Procedure: ask students to answer the questions based on the previously read text. (“Be a volunteer. Help Yourself by Helping Others”. kidshealth.org)
- Answer the questions:
- What can you do to help people or animals who need it?
- What does volunteering mean?
- Does volunteering help only others?
- Why are volunteer experiences important?
- Why do teens start volunteering by working together with their parents?
- What things can you do as a family?
- Why do schools ask kids to spend some time in service to others?
- What can volunteering help kids learn?
- Reading / speaking /writing
(Activity 4) 5 mins
Aims: to provide students with speaking and writing practice and apply lesson vocabulary, in practice
Procedure: ask students to match the volunteer activity 1-6 with the photos A-F. Photos show the voluntary projects of school 173.
(slide 4 “Photos of the voluntary projects of school 173”)
- Match volunteer activity 1-6 with photos A-F.
- Deliver food and personal supplies to elderly
- Plant trees and flowers
- Make cards for soldiers
- Collect wastepaper
- Help to overcome the language barrier
- Raise money for wounded soldiers
- Continue with the list of volunteering ideas in groups. Exchange the results and compare them. What is the best volunteer project?
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- Jigsaw reading/ speaking
(Activity 5) 8 mins
Aims: to provide students with reading practice and a real opportunity for genuine communication. Apply lesson vocabulary and summarizing skills in practice
Procedure: divide the students into two groups and ask them to read different texts. Prepare comprehension questions for each text. The students read their text, answer the questions and check understanding. Students then pair up with someone from the other group and tell them about their story, and listen to the other one.
(slide5 “Go Camp and AIESEC logos”)
- Read the text and answer the questions
Go Camp
Go Camp is the biggest volunteer programme in Eastern Europe, where volunteers from the whole globe motivate kids to learn foreign languages and introduce the world to children from all over Ukraine.
The main goal is to educate a new young generation of active and conscious citizens of Ukraine.
The tasks:
- Develop life skills, leadership qualities and values which will prepare the youth for the challenges of the 21st century
- Overcome the language barrier
- Teach children to think out of the box
- Establish exchange of cultural values
- Break stereotypes about Ukraine among foreigners
- Make the volunteer movement popular in Ukraine
Questions: GoCamp
- What is GoCamp?
- What do the volunteers do?
- What do they teach?
- What do they Break?
- What do they make popular?
AIESEC
AIESEC is a global platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential. AIESEC is the world’s largest non-political, independent and not –for – profit organization. It is run by students. It was officially founded in 1948. AIESEC is represented in over 126 countries. It has over 70,000 members who are interested in world problems, leadership and management. AIESEC offers three international programs: Global Talent, Global Entrepreneur and Global Volunteer.
- Global Talent gives students the opportunity to live and work in a foreign country in areas of management, marketing and sales.
- Global Entrepreneur Program gives students an opportunity to develop leadership skills, work in a startup.
- Global Volunteer gives you a chance to try to be a teacher or a project manager, see the world, learn different cultures
https://czs.muni.cz/en/student-from-abroad/internships/aiesec
Questions: AIESEC
- What is AIESEC?
- Who is it run by?
- When was it founded?
- How many countries are involved?
- How many programmes does it offer? What are they?
- Speaking
(Activity 6) 4 mins
Aims: to provide students with an opportunity for genuine communication, to apply lesson vocabulary in practice.
Procedure: interview the representative of AIESEC
- Watching a video
(Activity 7) 5 mins
Aims: to provide students with listening practice.
Procedure: play the video: “Angelina Jolie on one’s responsibilities to others”. After watching the video, ask the students to briefly answer the questions.
(slide6 “Guess who the volunteer is?”)
- Guess who the volunteer is
- Answer the questions
Questions:
- Who inspired Angelina Jolie?
- When did she decide to become a volunteer?
- What is the motto of her life?
(slide7 “I will do the best I can with this life, to be of use”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVO_UUyqrA
- Speaking
(Activity 8) 4 mins
Aims: to give the students further speaking practice using the vocabulary of the lesson.
Procedure: ask students to tell about other celebrities who do voluntary work.
- Mini survey
(Activity 9) 5 mins
Aims: to give the students further speaking/writing practice using the vocabulary of the lesson.
Procedure: tell the students they are going to find out about their classmates by doing a mini survey about volunteering. When they have gathered the information, get some feedback from the whole group.
- Mini survey
You are going to ask one or two of your classmates a question about voluntary work. Try to get as much information as possible and make notes.
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For… |
What can you do? |
What will the effect be? |
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A parent |
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A classmate |
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An old person |
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Your town |
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Your teacher |
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A charity |
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- Now tell the group what you found out
- Wrap up
Aims: to sum the information up, so the students may see the progress they have made in just one lesson.
Procedure: ask the groups to make concluding remarks.
- What is a volunteer?
- Why do people volunteer?
- Home assignment
Write an email to your friend about your decision to take part in a volunteer project.
Mention the activity, the date, the responsibilities, the advantages and the possible effects.
There are some very strange jobs you can do if you want to be a volunteer in Britain. Read these job descriptions. Decide which ones you would like to try.
Volunteering ideas
Volunteering (worksheet)
Activity 1
What words can be associated with the word “HELP”?
Activity 2
What kind of person is a volunteer? Write down your ideas. Explain your choice.
Activity 3
Answer the questions about volunteering. Support your answers with examples.
“Help yourself by helping others”
Activity 4 Group Work
Match volunteer activity 1-6 with photos A-F.
- Deliver food and personal supplies to elderly.
- Plant trees and flowers.
- Make cards for soldiers.
- Collect wastepaper.
- Help to overcome the language barrier.
- Raise money for wounded soldiers.
Continue with the list of volunteering ideas in groups. Exchange the results and compare them. What is the best volunteer project?
Activity 5
Jigsaw reading. Group A – GoCamp; Group B – AIESEC.
Read the text and discuss the questions in groups. Pair up with someone from the other group and tell them about your story, and listen to the other one.
Activity 6
Interview the guest of our lesson- the representative of AIESEC.
Activity 7
Read the information and guess what celebrity we are going to watch the video about. Answer the questions:
- Who inspired the celebrity?
- When did she decide to become a volunteer?
- What is her motto?
Activity 8
Do you know any other famous people who do voluntary work?
Activity 9
Mini survey
Ask one or two of your classmates a question about voluntary work. Try to get as much information as possible and make notes.
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For… |
What can you do? |
What will the effect be? |
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A parent |
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A classmate |
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An old person |
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Your town |
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Your teacher |
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A charity |
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Now tell the group what you found out.
Activity 10 Group Work
Group discussion:
What is a volunteer?
Why do people volunteer?
Home assignment:
- Write an email to your friend about your decision to take part in a volunteer project. Mention the activity, the date, the responsibilities, the advantages and the possible effects.
- There are some very strange jobs you can do if you want to be a volunteer in Britain. Read these job descriptions. Decide which ones you would like to try.
- Read the text and answer the questions
GoCamp
GoCamp is the biggest volunteer programme in Eastern Europe, where volunteers from the whole globe motivate kids to learn foreign languages and introduce the world to children from all over Ukraine.
The main goal is to educate a new young generation of active and conscious citizens of Ukraine.
The tasks:
- Develop life skills, leadership qualities and values which will prepare the youth for the challenges of the 21st century
- Overcome the language barrier
- Teach children to think out of the box
- Establish exchange of cultural values
- Break stereotypes about Ukraine among foreigners
- Make the volunteer movement popular in Ukraine
Questions:
- What is GoCamp?
- What do the volunteers do?
- What do they teach?
- What do they Break?
- What do they make popular?
- Read the text and answer the questions
AIESEC
AIESEC is a global platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential. AIESEC is the world’s largest non-political, independent and not –for – profit organization. It is run by students. It was officially founded in 1948. AIESEC is represented in over 126 countries. It has over 70,000 members who are interested in world problems, leadership and management. AIESEC offers three international programs: Global Talent, Global Entrepreneur and Global Volunteer.
- Global Talent gives students the opportunity to live and work in a foreign country in areas of management, marketing and sales.
- Global Entrepreneur Program gives students an opportunity to develop leadership skills, work in a startup.
- Global Volunteer gives you a chance to try to be a teacher or a project manager, see the world, learn different cultures
Questions:
- What is AIESEC?
- Who is it run by?
- When was it founded?
- How many countries are involved?
- How many programmes does it offer? What are they?
Additional text
There are some very strange jobs you can do if you want to be a volunteer in Britain. Read these job descriptions. Decide which ones you would like to try.
Strange jobs for volunteers
- Tandem bike rider- be the front rider on a tandem bike so blind people can enjoy cycling.
- Pet carer-look after pets when elderly owners go into hospital.
- Festival volunteer- work on a charity stall at a music festival and get a free ticket.
- Beach watcher- organize cleaning the beaches and do beach surveys.
- Kids theatre volunteer- work with children to do theatre plays and musical productions.
- Green gym environmental volunteer- get fit doing activities like planting trees or improving footpath.
- Toad warden- help toads cross the road when they migrate for annual breeding season.
- Radio producer- to make programmes for community radio station.
There are some very strange jobs you can do if you want to be a volunteer in Britain. Read these job descriptions. Decide which ones you would like to try.
Strange jobs for volunteers
- Tandem bike rider- be the front rider on a tandem bike so blind people can enjoy cycling.
- Pet carer-look after pets when elderly owners go into hospital.
- Festival volunteer- work on a charity stall at a music festival and get a free ticket.
- Beach watcher- organize cleaning the beaches and do beach surveys.
- Kids theatre volunteer- work with children to do theatre plays and musical productions.
- Green gym environmental volunteer- get fit doing activities like planting trees or improving footpath.
- Toad warden- help toads cross the road when they migrate for annual breeding season.
- Radio producer- to make programmes for community radio station.
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