Lớp 7 Unit 3 Skills 1

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 transportati[r]

SKILLS 1

UNIT 3

COMMUNITY SERVICE Period 7

Monday, November 1 st 2021

Volunteer activities

Raise money Donate books Donate blood

Donate clothes Help elderly people Help disabled children

In the United States, almost everyone, at one time or

another, has been a volunteer According to the US

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 enjoys 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), tutoring/mentoring young people

(adapted from “Volunteering: An American Tradition” by Susan

J.Ellis and Katherine H Campbell in eJournal USA: The spirit of

Volunteerism U.S Department of State,2012)

I vocabulary

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2 population: (n)

4 (to) force: /fɔ:s/ Ép buộc, cưỡng ép

5 (to) raise money: Quyên góp tiền

all the inhabitants of

a particular town, area, or country.

dân số

3 One fifth:

1 statistic / stəˈtistiks /(n) Số liệu thống kê

II Decide if the following statements are True or False?

………1 According to the text, nearly every

American has done volunteer work in his or her life.

………2 Every year, almost one in five Americans

works as a volunteer.

…… 3 Americans have been volunteering for less

than 50 years

……… 4 Americans volunteer because they are

forced to do it.

T

T

F

F (The text says Americans have had the tradition of

volunteering since the early days of the country The USA was “born”, or declared its independence, in 1776.)

Americans volunteer because they enjoy it, and not because they are forced or paid to do it

since the early days of the country (1776 )

enjoy it

III Which of the activities below are traditional

volunteer activities in the USA Tick in the box

1 Providing care for animals

2 Raising money

3 Cooking meals

4 Donating bloods

5 Cleaning the street

6 Teaching young children

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X

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X

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Americans volunteer not because they are forced or paid to do it They enjoys 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), tutoring/mentoring young people.

1 Which are traditional volunteer activities in the USA?

Cooking meals Raising money

Tutoring young children Cleaning streets

2 How many people do volunteer work in the

USA each year?

About One- fifth

3 Why do they volunteer work?

Because they enjoy it

4 Idea bank:

Fill in the table with your ideas for volunteer activites.

To raise

money, we

could

To provide food, we could

To help repair things, we could

To help people with transportatio

n, we could

To tutor young children, we could

Make

postcards

and sell

them

Cook food and bring it to street

children

Fill in the table with your ideas for volunteer activities

Volunteer

activities How could we do ?

To raise money

To provide food

To help repair

things

To help with

transportation

To tutor the young

children

make postcards/ collect glass bottles and sell them

cook food and bring it to street children Fix the lights, TV, roof or fence ….for

disabled people

Give rides / Help the elderly people with their shopping

Give the evening classes for street children

A: We could make postcards and sell them to raise money.

B: What types of postcards?

C: What are the postcards made of?

D: Who can make the postcards?

E: Where should we sell them?

F: What should we do to tell people about our

project?

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

6 Discussion: ideas for volunteer activities

6 Tick () volunteer activities students at your school do.

Activities

1 Donating blood

2 Helping the elderly

3 Cooking for the

poor

4 Planting trees

5 Recycle things

6 Raise money

7 Provide books and

clothes

8 Help disable people

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Poor students

A: What should you do to help

poor students at school?

B: I think ….………

A: How can we help your classmates or mountainous students?

B: We … ……… ………

We can raise fund by saving money

donate books and clothes

Old people

A: What should you do to help the old people?

B: We could help them with ………

… ……….……… ……… ………

cleaning up the house

disable children

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A: What should you do to help disable children at school?

B: I think ……… ……… We can raise fund by saving money,

tutoring or providing homework helping before or after school.

A: Why do you want to do them?

B: Because………We want they have the good knowledge

to get a good job and life

Work in group Discuss ideas for volunteer activities.

How can we help ……… ?

THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION!

conversation.

to helped people in need

- Do exercises- D1, 2, 3 (WB)

- Prepare Skills 2