SGK Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 4: VOLUNTEER WORK

mnit 4 VOLUNTEER WORK
A. READING
Before you read
Read the following saying and explain what it means. “if you give me a fish,
I will eat today.
If you teach me to fish,
I will eat my whole life long.”
Big Brothers Big Sisters
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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 problems.
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 leam 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 vacations, they volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas to provide education for children.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games. Some of these clubs organise short trips 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.
KUf 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.
When she retired, she did a lot of	service for the Red
Cross.
She was not fired. She left the company	.
She needs some	to clean up the kitchen.
Last month the company	to donate fifty trucks to help
the flooded areas.
df* Task 2. Choose the best answer from A, B, c or D for each of the following sentences.
Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old in their homes
by	•
mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up their houses
cooking, sewing or washing their clothes
c. telling them stories, and singing and dancing for them D. taking them to baseball games
Big Brothers is	.
the name of a club
a home for children c. the name of a film
D. an organisation for boys who no longer have fathers
Most of the boys’ and girls’ clubs use many high school and college
students as volunteers because they	.
have a lot of free time
can understand the problems of younger boys and girls c. know how to do the work
D. are good at playing games
Volunteers believe that	.
in order to make others happy, they have to be unhappy
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
The best title for the passage is 	.
Taking Care of Others
Voluntary Work in the United States
c. Volunteers: The Happiest People in the World D. Helping Old and Sick People in the United States
ESsf’ Task 3. Answer the questions.
What do high school and college students usually do as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the aged?
How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped children to overcome their difficulties?
Where do students volunteer to work during summer vacations?
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After you read
Work in groups. Discuss the question: Why do people do volunteer work?
B. SPEAKING
KSV Task 1. Work in pairs. Decide which of the following activities are volunteer work.
Taking part in an excursion
e Helping people in remote or mountainous areas
Giving care and comfort to the poor and the sick
Participating in an English speaking club
Providing education for disadvantaged children
Joining the Green Saturday Movement
KUf Task 2. Work in pairs. Practise the dialogue and then make similar conversations, using the activities that follpw.
A: What kind of volunteer work are you participating in?
B: We’re helping people in mountainous areas.
A: What exactly are you doing?
B: We’re teaching the children to read and write.
A: Do you enjoy the work?
B: Yes. I like helping people.
Your activities
What exactly you are doing
• Helping people in
• Teaching the children to read
mountainous areas
and write
• Helping old or sick people
• Giving them money
• Helping disadvantaged or
• Playing games with them
handicapped children
• Listening to their problems
• Taking care of war invalids
• Cleaning up their houses
and the families of martyrs
• Doing their shopping
• Taking part in directing the
• Cooking meals
traffic	m
• Taking them to places of interest
• Directing vehicles at the
intersections
• Helping old people and young
children to cross the road
CSIf’ Task 3. Work in groups. Talk about a kind of volunteer work your friends and you usually do to help people.
Example:
We usually take part in helping people in mountainous areas. We teach the children to read and write. We enjoy the work very much because we like helping people.
c. LISTENING
Before you listen
Tick (S) the best answers to the questions that suit you.
How often do you support charities?
o regularly	I I from time to time	I I never
What’s the best way of raising money to support charities?
I I through donations I I through taxes	I I through
fund-raising
activities
Which of these kinds of volunteer work do you prefer?
□ helping the elderly o helping the poor o helping the sick
Listen and repeat.
Organisation for Educational Development Spring School co-operate disadvantaged children fund-raising co-ordinate
While you listen
Kẫỹ’ Task 1. Listen and fill in the missing information.
Spring School is an	school in Ho Chi Minh City.
Around	live and study at the school.
About	from District 1 regularly attend classes.
Organisation for Educational Development co-operated with Spring
School to set up English classes in 	.
The school requires	to help organise their fund-raising
dinner held annually in __	.
CBf Task 2. Listen again and answer the questions.
What is the aim of Spring School?
What classes were set up in 1999?
Why do children participate in fund-raising performances?
Where do children dance, sing and play music?
Why are foreign volunteers needed?
After you listen
Work in groups. Summarize the story about Spring School, using the following suggestions.
The aim of Spring School
The number of children who live and study at the school or attend classes
The activities the children at the school take part in
The kinds of volunteers that spring School requires
D. WRITING
O3’ Task 1. Read the letter and underline the sentences that express the following points:
the opening of the letter	•	the donated amount
the way(s) the money is used	•	the way the receipt is issued
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the gratitude to the donor	•	the closing of the letter
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D51r Task 2. Imagine that you have just received a donation of one million dong from one of the local organizations to build your school library. Use the suggestions in Task 1 to write a letter to acknowledge the receipt of the donation and express your gratitude.
E. LANGUAGE FOCUS
Pronunciation: / w / - / j /
Grammar:
Gerund and present participle
Perfect gerund and perfect participle
Pronunciation
• Listen and repeat.
/ w /	/ j /
we
wheel
yes
years
west
wet
yellow
use
wine
whale
young
York
• Practise reading aloud these sentences.
We went for a walk in the woods near the railway.
We wore warm clothes and walked quickly to keep warm.
At about twelve, we had veal sandwiches and sweet white wine, and we watched TV.
Excuse me. Did you use to live in York?
Did you use to be a tutor at the University?
I read about Hugh in the newspaper yesterday.
Grammar
Exercise 1. Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate gerund of the verbs from the box.
spend
behave
wait
park
start
bend
meet
listen
Example:
He found that	was difficult in that city.
- He found that parking was difficult in that city.
1.1 have no objection to	to your story again.
Touch your toes without	your knees!
You should be ashamed of yourself for	so badly.
I am looking forward to	you.
You can’t prevent him from	his own money.
Would you mind	for a moment?
In spite of	late, we arrived in time.
Exercise 2. Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate present participle of the verbs from the box.
lie
modernize
shop
pass
prepare
rise
try
read
bum
Example:
I saw him	my house.
- I saw him passing my house.
She smelt something	and saw smoke	.
If she catches you 	her diary, she’ll be furious.
They found a tree	across the road.
I’m going	this afternoon.
He doesn’t spend much time	his lessons.
They wasted a whole afternoon	to repair the bike.
They spent a lot of money	the house.
Exercise 3. Put the verbs in brackets into the perfect gerund or perfect participle.
Examples:
He was accused of	(desert) his ship two months ago.
He was accused of having deserted his ship two mouths ago.
	(fail) twice, he didn’t want to try again.
Having failed twice, he didn’t want to try again.
I object to him	(make) private calls on the office phone.
	 (be) his own boss for such a long time, he found it hard to
accept orders from another.
They denied	(be) there.
	(tie) one end of the rope to his bed, he threw the other end
out of the window.
	(read) the instruction, he snatched up the fire extinguisher.
The children admitted 	(take) the money