Unit 4: Volunteer Work Reading

 Help students understand why people do volunteer work and what they do.. Well, they do different work which is called volunteer work... 1.How many people are there in the picture?The

UNIT 4 : VOLUNTEER

WORK

PART A : READING

LOC HUNG HIGH SCHOOL

AIMS :

 Help students know a lot of new words and a new point of grammar

 Help students understand why people do

volunteer work and what they do

 Help students practice reading skill and find the main ideas in the passage

LEXICAL ITEMS :

 (v) : mow, suffer in/ from, take part in =

participate in, take care of…

 (a ) : disadvantaged, remote, handicapped, voluntary

 (n ) : volunteer

STRUCTURE :

 Perfect gerund and perfect participle

 Gerund and present participle

TEACHING AIDS :

 Pictures

 Cassette

 Color chalks

 Computer

 A textbook

WARM – UP : Look at these pictures and answer some

questions

1. Who are they ?

2. What do they do to help the others?

Well, they do different work which is called

volunteer work

BEFORE YOU READ : Look at the picture in the book and answer the

questions

1.How many people are there in the picture?

There are 2 people in the picture : an old

woman and a boy

2 What is the old woman doing?

She is reading books to the boy

WH ILE YOU READ :

New words :

 volunteer (n )

voluntary (a )

voluntarily (adv )

volunteer (something; for/as something) (v )

 mow (v) cut grass

 take part in (v ) participate in

 disadvantaged (a)

 handicapped (a )

 suffer in/from (v)

 remote (a )

Task 1 :The word volunteer appears in the passage in different parts of speech Use an appropriate form of the word volunteer

to complete each of the following sentences.

1 When she retired, she did a lot of _ service

for the Red Cross

2 She was not fired She left the company .

3 She needs some _ to clean up the kitchen.

4 Last month the company to donate fifty

trucks to help the flooded areas.

1 voluntary

2 voluntarily

3 volunteers

4 volunteered

Task 2 : Choose the best answer from A,B,C or D for each of

the following sentences.

1 Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old in their homes by

.

A mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their houses.

B cooking, sewing or washing their clothes.

C telling them stories, and singing and dancing for them.

D taking them to baseball games.

A

2 Big Brother is .

A the name of the club

B a home for children

C the name of the film

D an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.

D

3 Most of the boys’and the girls’ clubs use many high school and college

students as volunteers because they .

A have a lot of free time.

B can understand the problems of younger boys and girls.

C know how to do work

D are good at playing games

B

4 Volunteers believe that _.

A in order to make others happy, they have to be unhappy.

B the happiest people are those who make themselves happy.

C the happiest people are those who are young and healthy.

D bringing happiness to others makes them the happiest people.

D

5 The best title for the passage is .

A Taking care of others.

B Volunteer work in the United States.

C Volunteers : The Happiest People In The World

D Helping Old and Sick People in the United States

B

Task 3 : Answer the questions

1 What do high school and college students usually do as

volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the ages?

They usually visit these places They read books to the people

there, play games with them or listen to their problems.

2 How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped

children to overcome their difficulties?

They give care and comfort to them.

3 Where do students volunteer to work during summer

vacations?

During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in remote or

mountainous areas.

AFTER YOU READ Answer the questions

1.What kind of voluntary work do people

usually?

2 How do they usually do it?

3 Why do they it?

 Learn words by their hearts and then read the text again