Teacher: Nguyễn Thị Hạnh
Lương Sơn -upper-secondary-school
Welcome to our lesson
Which activity do they take part in?
What are the people in the pictures doing?
volunteer work
Blood Donation
Make house
Teach the children
Mow the lawn
Unit 4
Part A : Reading
VOLUNTEER WORK
Before you read
“If you give me a fish,
I will eat today.
If you teach me to fish,
I will eat my whole life long.”
If someone gives you something to eat, you will not feel hungry but it won’t last long. If someone gives you an opportunity to work or teaches you how to work, you will earn your own living for a long time.
Read the following saying and explain what it means
Vocabulary
- Volunteer [,vɔlən`tiə] (v) (n) tình nguyện, người tình nguyện
- volunteer to do sth: tình nguyện làm gì
- Volultary [`vɔləntri] (adj) tự nguyện
- Voluntarily [vɔlənt(ə)rili] (adv) xung phong, tự nguyện
- Take care of somebody chăm sóc ai
- Mow the lawn cắt cỏ
- Disadvantaged [,disəd`vɑ:ntidʒd] (adj) bất lợi, nghèo
- Handicapped [`hændikæpt] (adj) tàn tật, khuyết tật
- Natural disaster thiên tai
- Overcome [,ouvə`kʌm] (v) vượt qua
- Mountainous [`mauntinəs] (adj) núi non
- To take part in - to participate in – to join
- Orphanage [`ɔ:fənidʒ] (n): trại trẻ mồ côi
Task 1:
The word volunteer appears in different parts of speech. Use an appropriate form of the word Volunteer to complete each of the following sentences
While you read
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 flooded areas.
(adj)  service (n)
voluntary
 (adv)
S V O
voluntarily
some  (n)
volunteers
S (v)
volunteered

volunteer(n,v)
voluntary(adj)
voluntarily (adv)
Task 1 : Word formation
Task 2: Choose the best
answer from A, B, C or D
for each of the following
sentences.

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 homes by...……………
A. mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their houses.
B. cooking, sewing or washing their clothes.
C. telling them stories, singing and dancing for them
D. taking them to baseball games.

Task 2: Choose the best answer from A,
B, C or D for each of the following sentences.

2.Big Brother 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.
Task 2: 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...……………
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.
Task 2: Choose the best answer from A,
B, C or D for each of the following sentences.

4.Voluteers 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.
Task 2: Choose the best answer from A,
B, C or D for each of the following sentences.


5.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 the United States.
Task 3: Answer the questions
What do high school and college students usually do as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the aged ?
How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped children to overcome their difficulties ?
Where do students volunteer to work during summer vacations ?
Lucky
numbers
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 or listen to their problems. ( line 7-10, paragraph 1)
2. How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped children to overcome their difficulties?
They give care and comfort to them and help them to overcome their difficulties. ( line 2-3, paragraph 3)
3. Where do students volunteer to work during summer vacations?
They volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas. ( line 5-6, paragraph3)
After you read
1. Clean the street
2. Help the old people
3. Teach street children
4. Take part in the English speaking club
5. Repair a country road
6. Blood donation
7. Protect the environment
8. Help the poor students and dioxin infected people
9. Take part in an excursion
10. Play soccer with your friends
Volunteer work
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8,
After you read
Work in groups
Talk about some volunteer work at your
school you and your friends took part in.
When did you take part in ?
What did you take part in for ?
What kind of volunteer work did you took part in ?
Eg: Last year, I collected my old books to support the flooded areas.
HOMEWORK
Learnt new words by heart.
Read and translate passage again.
List some volunteer work in your village you took part in last year .
Prepare “Speaking”.
Thank you for your attention!