Unit 4 : Volunteer work

Welcome to our class
11A2
Look at these pictures and answer
Helping handicapped children
Helping patients in hospital
Teaching children in orphanage
Helping old people
Helping old people
Helping patients in hospital
Teaching children in orphanage
Helping handicapped children
Unit 4 : Volunteer work
A. Reading
Before you read
“If you give me a fish
I will it today
If you teach me to fish
I will it my whole life long”
Suggested ideas:
Picture: The old woman is teaching the boy.
Every can do volunteer work.
“ Poem” : We had better teach a person a career than give him money.
Volunteer (v): Tình nguyện, xung phong
+ He volunteers to teach children in mountainous areas.
2. Volunteer (n): Người tình nguyện
+ She is one of the volunteer in my university.
- Voluntary(Adj) /Voluntarily(Adv)
3. Orphanage(n):Trại trẻ mồ côi
+ When he was young, he lived in the orphanage.
Mow(v) : Cắt, gặt
Lawn (n) : Bãi cỏ
Remote(Ạdj): Xa xôi, hẻo lánh
Natural disasters: Thiên tai
Overcome(v): Vượt qua
+ We will overcome this fanancial problem soon.
9. Participate (in) : Tham gia
*New words:
While you read
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
1. She needs some ____________ to clean up the kitchen.
2. She was not fired. She left the company __________.
3. Last month the company ___________ to donate fifty trucks to help the flooded areas
4. When she retired, she did a lot of __________ service for the Red Cross
voluntarily
volunteered
voluntary
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
1. What do high school and college students usually do as volunteers in hospital, orphanages or homes for age?
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 ( and help them to overcome their difficulties)
3. Where do students volunteer to work during summer vacations?
During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas ( to provide education for children).
After you read
Discuss in groups:
Have you done a volunteer work? What was it?

2. Are you going to do volunteer work when you are students in colleges? Why? Or why not?

Write a short a paragraph about volunteer work you have done or you want to do in the future.
Homework
Thank for your attention