Welcome to the lesson today
Cai Be High School
UNIT 4: VOLUNTEER WORK
Part A: READING
Let’s see some pictures
Before you read
“if you give a fish
I will eat today
If you teach me to fish
I will eat my whole life long”
Vocabulary
New words:

A Volunteer (n)




to volunteer (v)
Voluntary (a)
Orphanage (n)
To mow (v) grass






Lawn mow (n)
Handicapped (a)
Remote (a)
To suffer from (v)

Task 1: The word volunteer appears in the passage in different part of speech. Use an appropriate form of the word volunteer to complete each of the following sentences.
Answer:
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 home by
Mowing their lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their house.
Cooking, sewing or washing their clothes.
Telling stories, and singing and dancing for them
Taking them to the baseball games.
2. Big brother is
The name of a club
A home for children
The name of a film
An organization for boys who no longer have father
3. Most of the boys and girls’ clubs use many high school and college students as volunteers because they
Have a lot of free time
Can understand the problems of younger boys and girls
Know how to do the work
Are good at playing games
4. Volunteers believe that
In order to make others happy, they have to be unhappy
The happiest people are those who make themselves happy
The happiest people are those who are young and healthy
Bringing happiness to others makes them the happiest people
5. The best title for the passage is
Taking care of others
Voluntary work in the United States
Volunteers: the happiest people in the world
Helping old and sick people in the United States

Task 3: Answer the questions
Answer
1. They read books to the people there, play games with them and listen to their problems
2. They give care and comfort to them and help them overcome their difficulties
3. During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas to provide education for children
Discussion:
1. What of volunteer work do you usually do at school?
2. What do you usually do in each kind of volunteer work?
Thank you!
Good bye!