unit4.Reading

Blood Donation Teaching the children Helping the children 1. What are they doing? 2. Which activity do they take part in? Volunteer work 3.handicapped (adj ): 2.orphanage (n): 7.participate(v) = take part in (vp): 4.mow (v): 6.remote (adj): tham gia 5.overcome (v): người tình nguyện trẻ mồ côi khuyết tật vượt qua xa xôi, hẻo lánh - Volunteer (v): tình nguyện làm gì - Voluntary (adj.) : tự nguyện - Voluntarily (adv.) : một cách tự nguyện 1.Volunteer (n): Vocabulary: I. Before you read: cắt cỏ 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 II. While you read: 1. Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old in their home by ___________ . A. moving the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their house. B. cooking, sewing or wahsing their clothes. C. telling them stories, and singing and dancing for them. D. talking them to baseball games. 2. Big Brothers is _________ . A. the name of a club B. a home for children C. the name of film D. an organisation for boys who no longer have fathers. 3. Most of the boys’ and girls’ clubs use many high school and college students as volunteers because they __________ . A. have a lot of free time B. can understand the problems of youngers boys and girls. C. know how to do the work D. are good at playing games. Task 2: 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 be unhappy. B. the happinest people are those who make themselves happy. C. the happinest people are those who make themselves unhappy. D. bringing happinest to others makes them the happinest peple. 5. The best title of the passage is __________ . A. Taking Care of Others. B. Voluntary Work in the United States. C. Volunteers: The Happinest Pepple in the World. D. Helping Old and Sick People in the United States Task 2: Choose the best answer from A,B,C or D for each of the following sentences. Task3: Answer the questions 1. What do high school and college students usually do as volunteers in hospitals , orphanages or homes for the aged? 2. How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped children to overcome their difficulties? 3. Where do students volunteer to work during summer vacations?  They usually visit hospitals, orphanages or homes .They often read books, play games or listen to their problems. The volunteers give care, comfort and help them to overcome their problems or difficulties.  During summer vacations, they volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas to provide education for children. “If you give me a fish I will eat today If you teach me to fish, I’ll eat whole my life long.” Read the following saying and explain what it means III. After you read: