Welcome to our lesson !
Look at the pictures and answer the following questions:
What are they doing?
He is directing traffic on roads
She is playing with the children.
He is teaching children.
They are repairing/widening the country road.
Which activity do they take part in?
VOLUNTEER WORK
Lesson 1: Reading
Unit 4
VOLUNTEER WORK
Listen to the tape and find out the new words
Volunteer (v,n)
VOLUNTARY (A)
VOLUNTARILY (ADV)
Mow the lawn
Handicapped children
Natural disaster
Mountainous area
NEW WORDS
Mow the lawn
Handicapped children
Natural disaster
Mountainous area
Provide st for sb


Task 1
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)
VOLUNTARY
 (adv)
VOLUNTARILY
 (n)
VOLUNTEERS
 (v)
VOLUNTEERED
Task 2
Multiple choices
Mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their houses.
Cooking, sewing or washing their clothes.
Telling them stories, and signing and dancing for them.
Taking them to baseball games.
1.Volunteers usually help these who are sick or old in their home by :
Task 2
Multiple choices
the name of a club.
a home for children.
the name of a film.
An organization for boys who no longer have fathers.
2.Big Brothers is:
Task 2
Multiple choices
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.
3. Most of the boys’ and girls’ clubs use many high schools and college students as volunteers because they :
Task 2
Multiple choices
in order to make others happy, they have to be happy.
the happiest people are those who make themselves happy.
the happiest people are those who are young and healthy.
bringing happiness to others make them the happiest people.
4. Volunteers believe that :
Task 2
Multiple choices
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.
5. The best title for the passage is :
TASK 3
Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.
1. Students in the United States spend their time as volunteers only in hospitals.
2. Big Brothers is an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.
3. High school students also help disadvantaged or handicapped children overcome their difficulties.
4. During vacations, volunteers come to work in remote or mountainous areas.
F
T
T
F
POST- READING
Discuss in group:
Why do people do volunteer work?
SUGGESTIONS
View a Culture from the Inside
Learn New Things
Friendship
Learning a Foreign Language
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Thanks for your attention !