Unit 4: Volunteer Work Reading

UNIT 4 : VOLUNTEER
WORK
PART A : READING

LOC HUNG HIGH SCHOOL


AIMS :
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Help students know a lot of new words and a
new point of grammar.
Help students understand why people do
volunteer work and what they do.
Help students practice reading skill and find
the main ideas in the passage


LEXICAL ITEMS :
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(v) : mow, suffer in/ from, take part in =
participate in, take care of…..

(a ) : disadvantaged, remote, handicapped,
voluntary.
(n ) : volunteer


STRUCTURE :
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Perfect gerund and perfect participle
Gerund and present participle


TEACHING AIDS :
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Pictures
Cassette
Color chalks
Computer
A textbook


WARM – UP :
Look at these pictures and answer some
questions.

Who are they ?
2.
What do they do to help the others?
Well, they do different work which is called
volunteer work.
1.


BEFORE YOU READ :
Look at the picture in the book and answer the
questions


1.How many people are there in the picture?
There are 2 people in the picture : an old
woman and a boy.
2. What is the old woman doing?
She is reading books to the boy.


WH ILE YOU READ :
New words :
volunteer (n )
voluntary (a )
voluntarily (adv )
volunteer (something; for/as something) (v )
 mow (v) cut grass
 take part in (v ) participate in

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disadvantaged (a)
handicapped (a )
suffer in/from (v)
remote (a )


Task 1 :The word volunteer appears in the passage in different
parts of speech. Use an appropriate form of the word volunteer
to complete each of the following sentences.

1. When she retired, she did a lot of _______
service for the Red Cross.
2. She was not fired. She left the company
________.
3. She needs some_______ to clean up the
kitchen.
4. Last month the company ______ to donate
fifty trucks to help the flooded areas.
Answer :
1. voluntary
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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, and singing and dancing for them.
D. taking them to baseball games.
A
2. Big Brother is __________.
A. the name of the club
B. a home for children
C. the name of the film
D. an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.
D


3. Most of the boys’and the 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 work
D. are good at playing games
B
4. 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.

D


5. The best title for the passage is ____________________.
A. Taking care of others.
B. Volunteer work in the United States.
C. Volunteers : The Happiest People In The World
D. Helping Old and Sick People in the United States
B


Task 3 : Answer the questions
1. What do high school and college students usually do as
volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the ages?
They usually visit these places. They read books to the
people there, play games with them or listen to their
problems.
2. How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped
children to overcome their difficulties?
They give care and comfort to them.
3. Where do students volunteer to work during summer
vacations?
During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in remote
or mountainous areas.


AFTER YOU READ
Answer the questions
1.What kind of voluntary work do people
usually?

2. How do they usually do it?
3. Why do they it?


Homework
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Learn words by their hearts and then read
the text again.