Unit 4: Speaking
Describing the pictures
Eg: The student is teaching the poor children.
Task 1. Decide which of the following activities are
Taking part in an excursion
Helping people in remote or mountainous areas
Giving care and comfort to the poor and the sick
Participating in an English speaking club
Providing education for disadvantaged children
Joining the Green Saturday
Movement
volunteer work
Some other volunteer activities:
* Taking part in environmental conversation activities:
* donating blood,
* directing traffic,
* guiding foreign sports teams around when they go to Viet Nam to compete…
Task 2. Practice the dialogue and then make similar conversations, using the activities that follow.
A: What kind of volunteer work are you participating in?
B: We’re helping
A: What exactly are you doing?
B: We’re.
A: Do you enjoy the work?
B: Yes. I like helping people.

people in mountainous areas
(teaching the children to read and write )
( people in mountainous areas)
teaching the children to read and write
Task 2. Practice the dialogue and then make similar conversations, using the activities that follow.
A: What kind of volunteer work are you participating in?
B: We’re helping..........................................
A: What exactly are you doing?
B: We’re............................................................
A: Do you enjoy the work?
B: Yes. I like helping people.

handicapped children
- taking them to places of interest
playing games with them
Task 2. Practice the dialogue and then make similar conversations, using the activities that follow.
A: What kind of volunteer work are you participating in?
B: We’re helping..........................................
A: What exactly are you doing?
B: We’re............................................................
A: Do you enjoy the work?
B: Yes. I like helping people.

- directing the traffic
- directing the vehicle into intersection
- helping the old and young cross the road
Sub- task : Complete the dialogue using the words in the box
A: What kind of volunteer work are you participating in?
B :We’re helping old or ……….people
A: What exactly are you doing?
B: We’re ………….. their houses, doing their shopping and cooking ……….for them
A: Do you enjoy the work?
B: Yes. I like ………….people.
sick
helping
meals
cleaning up
Helping old or sick people


Cleaning up their houses



Taking care of war invalids and the families of martyrs
Listening to their problems

Cooking meals
Doing their shopping
Match each activity on the left with corresponding activities on the right.
Taking care of war invalids and the families of martyrs



Taking part in directing the traffic
Listening to their problems
cleaning up their houses
Doing their shopping
Cooking meals
+ directing vehicles at the intersections
+ Helping old people and young children to cross the road
Task 3: Talk about a kind of volunteer work your friends and you usually do to help people
Eg: We usually take part in helping old and sick people in my town. We help them to clean up their houses, do shopping and cook meals. We enjoy the work very much because we enjoy helping people.
Home work
Write a paragraph about a volunteer work you often do (use suggestions bellow)
Kind of volunteer work
Exact things to do
Frequency of doing the work
Length of time spent for the work
Your feeling when doing the work