Unit 4: Reading

 Help students understand why people do volunteer work and what they do.. So we can say that they are doing VOLUNTEER WORK... Look at the picture in the book and answer the questions 1.

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 ?

- They are college students / high school

students

2 Where are they?

- They are at a remote village/ at a home

3 What are they doing ?

- Thay are reparing houses / helping the

handicapped

3 Do they get paid for their work ?

- No, they are doing something without having

any kinds of payment So we can say that they are doing VOLUNTEER WORK

UNIT 4 : VOLUNTEER

WORK

PART A : READING

LOC HUNG HIGH SCHOOL

Look at the picture in the book and

answer the questions

1.How many people are there in the picture? And who are they ?

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

In our lesson today, you will know about

volunteer work in the USA

WH ILE YOU READ :

New words :

 volunteer (n )

voluntary (adj )

voluntarily (adv ) without payment; free

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

 mow (v) cut grass

 take part in (v ) participate in

 disadvantaged (adj)

 handicapped (adj )suffering from a mental or physical handicap

 remote (adj )

Task 1 :The word volunteer appears in the passage in different

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

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

3 Most of the boy’s 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

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

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

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?

3 Where do students volunteer to work during summer

vacations?

 During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in

AFTER YOU READ Answer the questions

1.What kind of voluntary work do you usually do at

school?

2 What do you usually do in each kind of volunteer

work?

- collecting donations from friends, family and involving

them in fundraising activities (to help the poor

students )

- participating in the Green Saturday Movement (to

clean the streets /to plant trees/to raise people’s

awareness of protecting the enviroment )

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

 Prepare Unit 4 ( cont ) : Speaking