Unit 4: Volunteer work

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Helping children in orphanages


Teaching the children in orphanages


Helping patients in a hospital


Helping old people


Helping handicapped children

Helping children in orphanages

Helping patients in a hospital

Helping handicapped children

Teaching the children in orphanages

Helping old people


Period 18: Unit 4

VOLUNTEER WORK
Lesson 1: Reading


I/ BEFORE READING

“ If you give me a fish,
I will eat it today.
If you teach me to fish,
I will eat my whole life
long”


* NEW WORDS
1. volunteer (v):

•tình nguyện, xung phong
+ She volunteers to work here.
- volunteer (n):
người tình nguyện
+ She is one of the volunteers.
- voluntary (adj)/Voluntarily(adv)
2. orphanage (n):
Trại trẻ mồ côi
3. handicapped (adj): bị tật nguyền
cắt gặt(cỏ)
4. mow (v):
5. lawn (n):
bãi cỏ
6. overcome (v):
vượt qua
7. participate (in ) (v): tham gia
8. natural disasters: thiên tai
9. remote (adj):
xa xôi, hẻo lánh

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II/ WHILE READING

• 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


volunteers to clean up the
1.She needs some ____________
kitchen.
2.She was not fired. She left the company
voluntarily
__________.
volunteered to donate
3.Last month the company ___________
fifty trucks to help the flooded areas
voluntary
4.When she retired, she did a lot of __________
service for the Red Cross


Task 2:
Choose the best answer


• 1. Volunteers usually help those who are sick
or old in their homes by _______________
• A. telling them stories, and singing and
dancing for them
• B. cooking, sewing or washing their clothes
• C. mowing the lawns, doing shopping and
cleaning up their houses
• D. taking them to baseball games

• 2. Big Brothers is ________________.
• A. an organisation for boys who no longer
have fathers
• B. the name of a club
• C. the name of a film
• D. a home for children


• 3. Most of the boys’ and girls’ clubs use
many high school and college students as
volunteers because they _____________.
• A. know how to do the work
• B. are good at playing games
• C. have a lot of free time
• D. can understand the problems of younger
boys and girls


• 4. Volunteers believe that ______________.
• A. the happiest people are those who are
young and healthy
• B. in order to make others happy, they have
to be unhappy
• C. bringing happiness to others make them
the happiest people
• D. the happiest people are those who make
themselves happy

5. Volunteer work is done in _____________.
A. Only in United State.
B. In Big Brother Organization only
C. In hospitals and orphanages
D. In every country in over the world


• 6. The best title for the passage is ________.
• A. Helping Old and Sick People in the
United States
• B. Volunteers: The Happiest People in the
World
• C. Taking Care of Others
• D. Voluntary Work in the United States


• Task 3:
• Ask and answer the questions in pairs