unit4.Reading

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.. Most of the boys’ and

Blood Donation Teaching the children

1 What are they doing?

2 Which activity do they take part in?

3 h andicapped (adj ):

2 o rphanage (n):

4.mow (v):

6.re m ote (adj):

5.over c ome (v):

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- Volunteer (v): tình nguyện làm gì

- Voluntary (adj.) : tự nguyện

- Voluntarily (adv.) : một cách tự nguyện

1.Volun t eer (n):

Vocabulary:

I Before you read:

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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.

voluntary

voluntarily volunteers

volunteered

II While you read:

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

_

A moving the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their house.

B cooking, sewing or wahsing their clothes.

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

D talking them to baseball games.

2 Big Brothers is _

A the name of a club

B a home for children

C the name of film

D an organisation for boys who no longer have fathers.

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

Task 2: 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 happinest people are those who make themselves happy.

C the happinest people are those who make themselves unhappy.

D bringing happinest to others makes them the happinest peple.

5 The best title of the passage is

A Taking Care of Others.

B Voluntary Work in the United States.

C Volunteers: The Happinest Pepple in the World.

D Helping Old and Sick People in the United States

Task 2: Choose the best answer from A,B,C or

D for each of the following sentences.

Task3: Answer the questions

1 What do high school and college students usually do as

volunteers in hospitals , orphanages or homes for the aged?

2 How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped

children to overcome their difficulties?

3 Where do students volunteer to work

during summer vacations?

 They usually visit hospitals, orphanages or homes They

often read books, play games or listen to their problems

The volunteers give care, comfort and help them to

overcome their problems or difficulties.

“If you give me a fish

I will eat today

If you teach me to fish, I’ll eat whole my life long.” Read the following saying and explain what it means

III After you read: