Unit 4 Volunteer work

Match the phrases with the pictures:
A
B

1. Protect the environment
2. Teach poor children
3. Work in the homes of old people

F

4. Take care of
VOLUNTEER
WORK
people in hospitals
5. Help children who
don’t have fathers or mothers

C

6. Help disabled children

E
D



I.Before you read
Read the following saying:
“If you give me a fish
I will eat today
If you teach me to fish

I will eat my whole day life long.”
What does this saying mean? (Choose the right options)
A. if you just give someone something they will survive but they don't
learn anything, if you teach him how to do it then they can do it forever and
teach other people.
B. People should eat fish.
C. Providing knowledge is the best charity.
D. Learning a lesson is a better reward than winning a prize.


Volunteers help in
homes for the aged

Volunteers help in
orphanages
Volunteers mow the lawns in the homes of old people.


Big Brothers- a voluntary organization
for helping boys who no longer have fathers.

Volunteers help disadvantaged children
Volunteers help handicapped/
Students
volunteer
to provide education for children in remote and
disabled
children
mountainous area

Find the forms of the word: “volunteer”
Each nation has many people who voluntarily take care of others. For examples,
many high school and college students in the United States often spend many
voluntarily (adv)
hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages, or homes for the aged. They read
g: She works
in their
voluntarily.
books to the people in the places. e.
Sometimes
the students
just homes
visit them,
play
games with them or listen to their problems.
V.P
adv
Other young volunteers work in the homes of sick or old people. They clean up
their houses, do their
shopping, or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have
volunteer(n)
fathers, there is a voluntary organization called big Brothers. College students take
e. g: Many volunteers teach disadvantaged children.
these boys to baseballvoluntary
games and help
(a) them to get to know things that boys usually
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learn from their father.
.Some are

highvoluntary
school V
students
take part in helping
e. g: They
helpers.
disadvantaged or handicapped children. They give care or comfort to them and
n and university students
help them to overcome their difficulties. a Young college
participate in helping the people who have suffered badly in wars or natural
disasters. During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in remote or
mountainous areas to provide education for children.
volunteer
Each city has
a number(v)
of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games. Some
of these clubs
short trips
to thestudents
mountains, beaches or other places of
e. g:organize
Last Sunday,
many
interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as
volunteered to clean up the school yard.
volunteers because they are young enough to understand the problems of younger
Volunteer to + V:
boys and girls.
VolunteersVolunteer(
believe that some

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N: He volunteers
people in thefor
world
social
are those
work.
who
help to bring happiness to others.


VOLUNTARY
1. When she retired, she did a lot of……………….…….service
for the Red Cross.
(adj)  service (n)
VOLUNTARILY
2. She was not fired. She left the company……………………..
 (adv)
S V
O
VOLUNTEERS
3. She needs some………………….……..to
clean up the kitchen.
some  (n)
VOLUNTEERED
4. Last month the company……………….…….to donate fifty
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(v)
trucks to help flooded areas.

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1.Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old in their homes by :
•

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 :
A. the name of a club.
B. a home for children.
C. The name of a film.
D. An organization for boys who no longer have fathers.
3.Most of the boys’ and girls’ clubs use many high schools 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 the work.
D. are good at playing games.
4. Volunteers believe that :
A. in order to make others happy, they have to be happy.
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 make them the happiest people.
5. The best title for the passage is .....................

A. Taking care of others.
B. Voluntary work in the United Stated.
C. Volunteers : The Happiest People in the World.
D. Helping Old and Sick people in the United States.


1. What do high school and college students usually do as volunteers in
hospitals, orphanages or home for the aged ?
-> They read books to the people in the places.
Sometimes the students just visit them, 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 or comfort to them.
3. Where do students volunteer to work during summer vacations ?
-> They volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas to provide
education for children.


Summary the main ideas:
Fill in the gaps with information from the passage:
In the United States many students work as volunteers.
homes for the aged
Many
volunteers
work
in orphanages
hospitals,
(1)........................
or

of sick or old people
(2)
................................
Others
volunteers
work
in
the
Big Brothers
homes(3)................................ . There is a voluntary
organization called
no longer have
(4)who
.......................
for fathers
boys (5).............................................. Some high school
handicapped
children
volunteers
help disadvantaged
or(6) .............................. . College or university
natural disasters
students volunteer to badly
help in wars
the orpeople
who have suffered
volunteer to work
remote summer vacation, they
(7)....................................................
. in During

has a number of
(8).....................................................
or mountainous areas. Each city
(9) ............................. clubs which use students as volunteers to help younger
boys or girls overcome their problems.
People do volunteer work happiest
because people
they believe that bringing happiness to
people makes them the (10)............................... in the world.


You are a student. Now what would you volunteer to do?
( Choose the options you want)
A. work in hospitals, orphanages, or homes for the aged.
B. help in the homes of sick or old people.
C. help boys who no longer have fathers.
D. take part in helping disadvantaged or handicapped children.
E. help the people who have suffered badly in wars or natural disasters.
F. work in remote or mountainous areas to provide education for children.
G. Take part in the clubs which help younger boys and girls overcome their problems.

*Now Let’s Talk:
I am a student. I volunteer to ..................... . I will ........
........... I believe that .......
e.g: I am a student. I volunteer to help boys who no longer have

fathers. I will take these boys to ball games and help them to get
to know things that boys usually learn from their father. I
believe that bringing happiness to those boys make me the
happiest person in the world.


- Talk about what you volunteer to do
this summer vacation.
- Do reading exercises in the
workbook.
- Prepare the next lesson: Speaking.