Unit 4. Volunteer work

They are cleaning the road after the flood

What are they doing?
They are repairing the banks of the lake
What are they doing?


Ask and answer the questions
1. How often do you support charities?
2. What’s the best way of raising money
to support charities?
3. Which of these kinds of volunteer
work do you prefer?


Ask and answer
1. How often do you support charities?
• Regularly
• From time to time
• Never


Ask and answer
2. What’s the best way of raising
money to support charities?
• Through donations
• Through taxes
• Through fund-raising activities

Ask and answer
3. Which of these kinds of
volunteer work do you prefer?
• Helping the elderly
• Helping the poor
• Helping the sick


• Organisation for Educational Development

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/di'veləpmənt/
 Tổ chức Phát triển Giáo dục
• Spring School /sprin// sku:l/l
• Disadvantaged children

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Trẻ em bị thiệt thòi


• Co-operate /kəu'opəreit/

(v) Hợp tác, cộng tác
• Fund raising /fcnd//reizin/

Gây quỹ
• Co-ordinate
/kəu'o:rdineit/

Phối hợp, xếp đặt


• Organisation for Educational
Development
• Spring School
• Disadvantaged children
• Co-operate
• Fund raising
• Co-ordinate


Task 1. listen and fill in the
missing information

1. Spring School is an informal
_______ school in Ho Chi
Minh City.
30 street children live and study at the
2. Around ______________
school.
children with special difficulties from
3. About 250
____________________________
District 1 regularly attend classes.
4. Organisation for Educational Development cooperated with Spring School to set up English
1998
classes in ____.
volunteers to help organise
5. The school requires _________

June
their fund-raising dinner held annually in _____.


Task 2. Listen again and answer
the questions.
1. What is the aim of Spring School?
2. What classes were set up in 1999?
3. Why do children participate in fundraising performances?
4. Where do children dance, sing and play
music?
5. Why are foreign volunteers needed?


1.What is the aim of Spring School?
 It provides classes for disadvantaged
children in Ho Chi Minh City.
2.What classes were set up in 1999?
 Dance, theatre, singing and circus
classes were set up in 1999.


3.Why do children participate in fundraising performances?
 Because they need money to
continue their English and
Performance Arts classes.
4.Where do children dance, sing and
play music?
 They perform circus, theatre, dance
and singing at one of the largest

hotels in Ho Chi Minh City.


5.Why are foreign volunteers needed?
 Because they need help to organise
their fund-raising dinner held
annually in June.


Summarize the story about Spring
School, using the suggestions below.
Provides classes / disadvantaged children /
Ho Chi Minh City. 30 street children / live and
study / the school. 250 children / special
difficulties/ District 1 / attend classes. They /
perform circus, theatre, dance and singing /
largest hotels / Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese
and foreign volunteers / needed


• Summarize the story about Spring School.
• Prepare writing lesson
(write a formal letter expressing gratitude)



Reflective pronouns
• Myself
• Ourselves
• Yourself

• Yourselves
• Himself
• Themselves
• Herself
• Itself
5 points is given for each correct pronoun


:2
You’ve just lost
half of your
points!

You are unlucky!


Adverbs of frequency.
• Always

• Occasionally

• Usually

• Rarely

• Sometimes

• Seldom

• Often

• Never

5 points is given for each correct adverb


Phrases related to volunteer work
•
•
•
•
•
•

Help disadvantaged or handicapped children.
Take care of the aged and orphanages.
Give care and comfort to the poor and sick.
Take part in directing the traffic.
Provide education for disadvantaged children.
Take care of war invalids and the families of
martyrs.
• Help people in mountainous areas.

5 points is given for each correct phrase


X

2
Lucky

number!


What
do take
thesepart
students
take part
in?
They
in volunteer
work