UNIT 4 :

FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY

LANGUAGE
 UNIT 4 :FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE
I. Warm- up
II. The new lesson
1. Vocabulary: Adjective suffixes: -ed vs. -ing; -ful
vs. -less
2. Grammar:
● Irregular past tense verbs
● The past simple vs. the past continuous with
when and while
 I. Vocabulary

• Read the conversation in GETTING

STARTED
again. Find the adjectives ending with the
following suffixes:
● -ed ________________________________
● -ing ________________________________
● -ful ________________________________
● -less ________________________________
Underline the adjectives ending with –ing, -ed, -ful, -less.
Quan: Hi, Hieu. I called you yesterday afternoon, but you didn’t answer.
Hieu: Oh, really? What time?
Quan: At about 2 p.m. What were you doing then?
Hieu: Oh, when you called, I was working. I volunteer every Tuesday afternoon at the Happy
Mind Charity Centre. I teach children.
Quan: Really? Why?
Hieu: Because these children are disadvantaged. They have many problems and they need our
help.
Quan: What subjects do you teach them?
Hieu: Vietnamese and Maths.
Quan: It sounds interesting. How did you get the job?
Hieu: Just by chance. I was interested in doing volunteer work, so when I saw the
advertisement for volunteer positions in the newspaper last summer, I applied and was
chosen.
Quan: Oh I see. Was the job easy at first?
Hieu: Not really. When I worked with them for the first time, many of them couldn’t read or
write. Some of them were hopeless at Maths!
Quan: What did you do then?
Hieu: I got some useful advice from my teacher. It was really helpful. All of the children can
read and write now.
Quan: Your job is very meaningful. I also want to do something useful for our society.
Hieu: Well, if you are interested in this kind of work, I will introduce you to my team leader.
 I. Vocabulary:

Task 1. Read the conversation in GETTING

STARTED again. Find the adjectives ending with
the following suffixes:
-ed -ing -ful -less
disadvantaged interesting useful hopeless
interested helpful
excited meaningful
 Adjectives ending with -ing Adjectives ending with -ed
(Present Participial /V-ing) (Past participle/V-ed)
The book is boring. The boy is bored.
Tính từ tận cùng bằng ‘ing’ dùng để chỉ Tính từ tận cùng bằng ‘ed’ mang
bản chất, tính chất của sự vật, sự việc, ý nghĩa bị tác động hay bị động (dùng khi
hành động, có nghĩa tác động lên đối danh từ mà nó bổ nghĩa là đối tượng
tượng khác. Tính từ này cũng thường nhận sự tác động của hành động).
được dùng khi danh từ mà nó bổ
nghĩa thực hiện hoặc chịu trách nhiệm về
hành động.

Adjectives ending with –ful Adjectives ending with -less

(danh từ + -ful) (danh từ + – less)
- ful : đầy, có - less : không có
        harm        ->        harmful         child       ->        childless
        use         ->        useful         tree        ->        treeless
        success    ->        successful         home      ->        homeless
   
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Use the words in brackets with appropriate endings from 1 to
complete the following sentence
1. If people spend most of their time doing nothing, they will find
meaningless
their lives………………(mean)
interested in doing charity work. (interest)
2. I am ……………..
3. Last year, she was really…………..at hopeless English. She couldn’t even
say a word in English. Now her English is much better. (hope)
4. The new teacher’s advice was very……………His useful students
could learn English vocabulary faster. (use)
5. They were……………..toexcited know that their contributions
were….................... to the poor people in that area.(excite, mean)
meaningful
6. Our school volunteer activities are very…………...(excite)
exciting
Pronunciation
1 Listen and repeat

/nd/ /ŋ/ /nt/

second interesting announcement
friend teaching student
understand exciting advertisement
planned helping spent
grand training environment
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2. Practise saying the following sentences. Pay attention to

pronunciation of the ending sounds /nd/, /ŋ/, /nt/.

1. I don’t understand what the second friend says.

2. It is interesting and exciting to teach English to
children in disadvantaged areas.
3. That student didn’t listen to the announcement for
the job advertisement.
 What were you doing at 9PM last night?

What was your mom doing at 9PM last night?

 Simple past tense Past continuous tense
I. Form I. Form
(+) S + V-ed + (O) (+) S + was/were + V-ing.
(-)S + did not/didn’t + V + (O) (-) S + was/were + not + V-ing.
(?) Did + S + V + (O)? (?) Was/were + S + V-ing?
II. Use II. Use
1. Diễn đạt một hành động xảy ra và chấm 1. Diễn đạt một hành động đang xảy ra tại
dứt hoàn toàn trong quá khứ       một thời điểm trong quá khứ
+ He ate a chicken last Sunday.  + I was cleaning the house at 6.00
2. Diễn đạt các hành động xảy ra liên tiếp yesterday.
trong quá khứ 2. Diễn đạt 1 hành động đang xảy ra thì có
She came home, switched on the computer hành động khác bất chợt cắt ngang. (When/
and checked her e-mails.  While)
3. Được sử dụng trong một số công thức ví dụ: my mum was cooking when my father
sau: came back .
- I used to ridebicycle to school (thói quen - while dùng khi diễn tả 2 hành động cùng xảy
trong quá khứ) ra trong qk
While she was cooking, he watching TV.
- I was eating dinner when she came
-If I were you,I wouldn't get engaged to him …
(Câu điều kiện loại II) III. Signal Words:
… At this time last night; at this moment last
 III. Signal Words: year, at that time, at 6 p.m last night;
Last night/ year/month; yesterday, 2 years while...
ago; in 1999...
1. Rewrite the sentences in the past tense, using the time expression in brackets

1. I hardly ever wear jeans to school. (yesterday)

• I wore jeans to school yesterday.
2. My sister and I buy a lot of clothes in the summer.( last summer)
• My sister and I bought a lot of clothes last summer.
3. My father sometimes reads newspapers in bed.(last night)
• My father read newspapers in bed last night.
4. My mother makes my bed on weekends. (last Sunday)
• My mother made my bed last Sunday.
5. I write letters to my grandparents at the weekend. (yesterday
afternoon)
• I wrote letters to my grandparents yesterday afternoon.
Match 1-5 with a-e and complete the sentences in the past simple or the past continuous
1. We were walking in the park when it started to rain. (d)
2. While I was talking to a friend, the teacher asked me a question. (c)
3. We lost the keys while we playing in the garden. (e)
4. We were sitting on a bench in the park when someone took our school bags.(b
5. When the phone rang, I was having a bath. (a)

a. I (have) a bath.
b. when someone (take) our school bags.
c. the teacher (ask) me a question.
d. when it (start) to rain.
e. while we (play) in the garden.
 Make 2 sentences using past simple and past
continuous to talk about what happened in the past
III. CONSOLIDATION
Answer the following questions
- What have you learned today?
- What can you do now?
VI. HOMEWORK
Do the above exercises again in the notebook,
learn by heart irregular verbs, and prepare for
the reading section.