UNIT 4: VOLUNTEER WORK
READING
Before you read
Warmer
Vocabulary pre-teach
II. While you read
Activity 1
Activity 2
III. After you read
IV. Homework
Match the pictures with suitable activities
Teach poor children to read and write
Help people in the flood area
Give care for the old
Raise money for the poor
Clean the street
Give blood to the patient
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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 lawn
mow
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)
Checking:
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 ........................... kids to fish
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
Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old in their house by ......................................
Mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their houses
Cooking, sewing or washing their clothes
Telling them stories, and singing and dancing for them
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 ...............................
The name of a club
A home for children
The name of the film
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 ...........................
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
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 ......................................
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 happinest to others makes them the happiest peope
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
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 to provide education for children
III. AFTER YOU READ
Discussion:
What kind of volunteer work do you usually do at school?
What do you usually do in each kind of volunteer work?
HOMEWORK
write a short paragraph (50-60 words) answering the question:
“Why do people do volunteer work?