Unit4

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Unit 4:

Class 11C1
VÕ THỊ THU THẢO
NATURAL DISASTERS
What are they doing?
Do you think they do these
works for their benefits?
Teach poor children
Help the old

Help children
Help the poor
Volunteer work
Teach poor children
Help the poor
Help children
Help the old

Ethnic minorities
Volunteer
Cut lawns
The aged
Vocabulary:
1. volunteer (n) : tình nguyện viên
5. natural disasters (n) : thiên tai
7. disadvantaged children (n) :
3. voluntary (a) : tình nguyện
4. voluntarily (adv) : một cách tình nguyện
Ex: She is volunteer.
Ex: Big brothers is a voluntary organisation.
Ex: Volunteers work voluntarily.
2. volunteer (v) : tình nguyện
trẻ em có hoàn cảnh khó khăn
6. charity (n) : lòng bác ái, từ thiện
Ex: He volunteers to teach poor children.
Vocabulary: (cont)
9. ethnic minority (n) : dân tộc thiểu số

13. orphanage (n) : trại mồ côi
12. handicapped people (n) : người khuyết tật
15. mow the lawns (v) : cắt cỏ
11. remote (a) : xa xôi hẻo lánh
14. Donaten (v) : sự đóng góp, dâng hiến
10. Gratitude (n) : sự biết ơn
8. the aged = the old (n) : người già
A. READING
Before you read

Read the following saying and explain what it means

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

Big Brothers Big Sisters
Little moments Big magic

While you read
Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow
Each nation has many people who voluntarily take care of others. For example, many high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the aged. They read books to the people in these places. Sometimes the students just visit them, play games with them or listen to their problem.
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 fathers, there is a voluntary organization called Big Brothers.
College students take these boys to baseball games and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Some high school students take part in helping disadvantaged or handicapped children. They give care and comfort to them and help them to overcome their difficulties. Young college and university students participate in helping the people who have suffered badly in wars or natural disasters. During summer vocations they volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas to provide education for children.
Each city has a number of clubs where boy and girls can go to play games. Some of these clubs organise short trip to the mountains, beaches or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to understand the problems of younger boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
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:
1. When she retired, she did a lot of .....................
service for the Red Cross.
2. She was not fired. She left the company ...
....................
3. She needs some ................... to clean up the
kitchen.
4.Last month the company......................to donate
fifty trucks to help the flooded areas
voluntary
voluntarily
volunteers
volunteered
Task 2:
Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D for
each of the following sentences:
1. Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old
in their homes by
A. mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning
up their houses.
B. cooking, sewing or washing their clothes
C. telling them stories, and singing and dancing for
them.
D. taking them to baseball games.
..........
mowing the lawns, doing
shopping and cleaning up their houses.
A.
2. Big Brothers is
A. the name of the club.
B. a home for children.
C. the name of a film
D. an organisation for boys who no longer have
father .
....................
Task 2: (cont)
Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D for
each of the following sentences:
an organisation for boys
who no longer have father .
D.
Task 2: (cont)
Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D for
each of the following sentences:
3. Most of the boys’ and girls’ club use many high
school 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.
..................
can understand the problems
of younger boys and girls .
B.
Task 2: (cont)
Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D for
each of the following sentences:
4. Volunteers believe that
A. in order to make others happy, they have to
unhappy .
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 makes them the
happiest people .
....................
bringing happiness to
others makes them the happiest people .
D.
5. The best title of the passage is
A. Taking Care of Others.
B. Voluntary work in the United States .
C. Volunteers: The happiest people in the World.
D. Helping Old and Sick People in the United
States.
....................
Task 2: (cont)
Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D for
each of the following sentences:
Voluntary work
in the United States.
B.
HÀNH KHÚC THANH NIÊN TÌNH NGUYỆN
Chúng ta hát bài ca thanh niên tình nguyện
Chúng ta đến vùng sâu nơi xa mọi miền
Tuổi trẻ có thanh niên, đầy nhiệt huyết trong tim
Bạn cùng tôi hòa mình vào mùa hè xanh
Với khối óc bàn tay hăng say nhiệt tình
Góp công sức dựng xây quê hương của mình
Từ nhịp sống hôm nay là hạnh phúc mai sau
Mùa hè xanh giục giã bước nhanh lên đường
Về đồng bằng phương nam ta đắp đê ngăn cơn lũ tràn
Dậy đàn em học hành dựng cất nhà cho người neo đơn
Ta đi lên Trường Sơn mở con đường lịch sử hào hùng
Ta đi lên vùng cao giục đông bào trồng cây gây rừng
Áo xanh thắm đoàn ta thanh niên tình nguyện
Những năm tháng nào phai trong ta kỷ niệm
Đời cần có thanh niên đầy nhịp sống trong tim
Mùa hè xanh hát vang bài ca lên đường.