Unit 4. Volunteer work

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


Unit 4

Lesson 1: Reading

Reading skills:
Word formation
Extensive reading: multiplechoice questions
Passage comprehension



• Volunteer (n) tình nguyện viên, người tình
nguyện



handicapped(a): tàn tật


remote (a): xa xôi, hẻo lánh


A place where children without
parents live

Orphanage (n): trại trẻ mồ côi


 Volunteer (n): người tình nguyện
(v): tình nguyện, tự nguyện
->voluntary (a): tình nguyện
->voluntarily (adv): tự nguyện
 Mow (v): cắt cỏ, xén cỏ
 Handicapped (a): tàn tật

 Remote (a) xa xôi, hẻo lánh
 Orphanage (n): trại trẻ mồ côi


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.
voluntary

1. When she retired, she did a lot of ……………...service
for the Red Cross.
 (adj)
voluntarily
2. She was not fired. She left the company………………
 (adv)
volunteers

3. She needs some………………….……..to clean up the
 (n)
kitchen.
volunteered

4. Last month the company……………….…….to donate
fifty trucks to help flooded areas.  (v)



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

1.

Volunteers usually help these who are sick or old in their home by
_________.

A.

Mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their houses.

B.

Cooking, sewing or washing their clothes.

C.

Telling them stories, and signing and dancing for them.

D.

Taking them to baseball games.

2. Big Brothers is____________.
3. Most of the boys’ and girls’ clubs use many high schools and college
students as volunteers because they __________.
4. Volunteers believe that___________.
5. The best title for the passage is _________.


-2 teams: green horse and purple horse
-There are 6 numbers, but only ONE lucky number

-Choose a number and do a sentence in task 2. If it is
correct, your horse will be run. But if it is a lucky
number, your horse will be run without doing any
sentences
Which horse comes to the target first will be the winners


1

2

3

Green
Horse

4

5

Purple
Horse

6


1. What do high school and college students
usually do as volunteers in hospitals,
orphanages or homes for the ages?
2. How do volunteers help disadvantaged and

handicapped children to overcome their
difficulties?
3. Where do students volunteer to work during
summer vacations?


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. (paragraph 1, line 710)