Tuesday, September 23rd, 2010
What are they doing ?
Who will pay for them ?
A.Reading
Class : 11A2
Period : 21st
Time : 45 minutes
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, scan for the main idea of the reading.
Get more awareness about word formation, for example “volunteer”.
Understand the meaning of the volunteer work.

Repair bridges
Visit the elderly
Plant trees
Play with children
Take care of
sick people
Teach children
(to) participate in
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Remote (adj):
The handicapped (n):
an orphan (n):
(to) clean up:
a volunteer (n):
= a person who does social activities
Tình nguyện viên, người xung phong
Dọn dẹp, làm vệ sinh.
= a child whose parents died
Trẻ mồ côi
Người tàn tật
≠ near
Xa xôi, hẻo lánh
= (to) take part in, join
Tham gia, tham dự vào
Students listen to the tape one time and repeat silently.
Then ask students read the text silently in some minutes
Choose the right words in to the columns
voluntary
volunteer
voluntarily
voluteer
voluntary
voluntarily
volunteer
volunteer
When she retired, she did a lot of……………….service for the Red Cross.

She was not fired. She left the company……………….

She needs some……………………to clean up the kitchen.

Last month the company………………………to
donate fifty trucks to help the flooded areas.
Helping people in the
mountainous areas

3.Teaching children to read and write


7. Giving them money

B. Helping old or sick people
1. Mowing the lawn
8. Cleaning up their houses
5. Doing shopping
10. Asking them to places of interest
C. Helping disadvantaged
or handicapped children
2. Playing games with them
9. Helping them to
rebuild their houses
6. Visiting and taking care of them
D. Helping people suffer in
in wars and disasters
4. Listening to their problem
Why do people do volunteer work?
Because they are useful , meaningful
Do the volunteer work make life better and brighter
Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
Volunteer Work
(to) mow the lawn
The handicaped
. Share problems and play with children.

Help chidren to read and write.
Take care of sick people.
Visit the elderly
Repair bridges.
Plant trees
Thanks for your attention.
Hoping that you will do volunteer work whenever and wherever you can
- Learnt by heart the new words
- Answer three questions in task 3 page 49
Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old in their homes by……………………..

A. Mowing the lawns, doing the 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
Big Brothers is……………..

A. the name of a club
B. a home for children
C. the name of a film
D. an organisation for boys who no longer have fathers
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.
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.
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