unit 4-special education/readin

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UNIT 4: VOLUNTEER WORK

READING

I Before you read

1 Warmer

2 Vocabulary pre-teach

II While you read

1 Activity 1

2 Activity 2

III After you read

Match the pictures with suitable activities

a Teach poor children to

read and write

b Help people in the

flood area

c Give care for the old

d Raise money for the

poor

e Clean the street

f Give blood to the

1

2

3

4

5

6

I BEFORE YOU READ

1 Warmer

I BEFORE YOU READ

2 Vocabulary pre-teach

These people are doing volunteer work They are volunteers

I BEFORE YOU READ

2 Vocabulary pre-teach

- Volunteer (n)

Eg1: Mary volunteered to clean the house

Eg 2: In her spare time, she does the work without being paid for it She does voluntary work

- Volunteer (v)

- Voluntary (adj)

This machine is used to the lawnmow

I BEFORE YOU READ

2 Vocabulary pre-teach

- Volunteer (n)

Eg1: Mary volunteered to clean the house

Eg 2: In her spare time, she does the work without being paid for

it She does voluntary work

- Volunteer (v)

- Voluntary (adj)

- Mow the lawn (v)

The home for children whose parents are dead

- Orphanage (n)

These people are handicapped

I BEFORE YOU READ

2 Vocabulary pre-teach

- Volunteer (n)

Eg1: Mary volunteered to clean the house

Eg 2: In her spare time, she does the work without being paid for

it She does voluntary work

- Volunteer (v)

- Voluntary (adj)

- Mow the lawn (v)

The home for children whose parents are dead

- Orphanage (n)

- Handicapped (adj)

= far away

- remote (adj)

1 When she retired, she did a lot of service for the Red Cross

2 She was sent to an when her mother died

3 He continued to the lawn and did routine chores

4 She needs some to clean up the kitchen

5 The company to donate fifty trucks to help the flooded areas

6 We have visited many villages in areas

7 I'm going to work two days a week teaching

Fill in blanks with suitable words from the box below

orphanage volunteers handicapped mow voluntary volunteered remote

voluntary

orphanage mow

volunteers volunteered

remote

handicapped

II WHILE YOU READ

1 Activity 1: 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

house 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

II WHILE YOU READ

1 Activity 1: Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D

for each of the following sentences

2 Big Brothers is

A The name of a club

B A home for children

C The name of the film

D An organization for boys who no longer have fathers

II WHILE YOU READ

1 Activity 1: Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D

for each of the following sentences

3 Most of the boys’ and 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 the work

D Are good at playing games

II WHILE YOU READ

1 Activity 1: Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D

for each of the following sentences

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 happinest to others makes them the happiest peope

5 The best title for the passage is

A Taking Care of Others

B Voluntary Work in the United States

C Volunteers: The Happiest People in the World

D Helping Old and Sick People in the United States

II WHILE YOU READ

1 Activity 1: Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D

for each of the following sentences

II WHILE YOU READ

2 Activity 2: Answer the questions

1 What do high school and college students usually do as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the aged?

 They read books to the people there, play games with them and listen to their problems

2 How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped children to overcome their difficulties?

 They give care and comfort to them and help them

overcome their difficulties

3 Where do students volunteer to work during summer

vacations?

 They volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas

III AFTER YOU READ

Discussion:

1 What kind of volunteer work do you usually do at

school?

2 What do you usually do in each kind of volunteer work?

write a short paragraph (50-60 words) answering the question: “Why do people do volunteer work?