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Period 1
Unit 1 Helping those in need
Getting ready
Reading (I)
1
What is voluntary work?
Voluntary work is something you do without being paid to help people in need.
Lead -in
What kinds of voluntary work do you know?
help clean up the
city park
visit the old people
visit sick children in the hospital
Getting ready
In this unit, you will learn about voluntary activities.
What did Hi mean by his words?
What did Lo do?
Did Lo understand what Hi meant?
He needed Lo’s help.
He gave Hi his right hand.
No, he didn’t.
give me a hand = help me
Look at the cartoon and answer the questions.
Have you ever done any voluntary work?
Where can we do voluntary work?
Brainstorm
health recovery centre for
the disabled
hospital
orphanage
nursing home
/dɪsˈeɪbld/
What kind of people can we help at these places?
/ˈdɪfɪkəlti/
Match
orphanage
nursing home
health recovery centre for the disabled
hospital
the old
people who are badly ill
children without parents
= suffer from
serious illness
people who have difficulty moving, seeing, hearing, etc.
/ˈsʌfə(r)/
/ˈsɪəriəs/
/ˈɪlnəs/
Brainstorm
help raise money
help disabled children
at the health recovery centre
visit sick children
in a hospital
visit children
in an orphanage
help old people
How can we do
voluntary work?
…
/reɪz/
8
What do you know about … ?
There are many kinds of voluntary work. Can you match the activities with the pictures below? Write the correct letters in the boxes.
1
2
3
4
b
c
d
a
Before you read
What are the names of the three teenagers?
What did they offer to do during the school holidays?
Betty, Mark and Annie.
They offered to do some voluntary work
during the school holidays.
/ˈtiːneɪdʒə(r)/
/ˈɒfə(r)/
Read the title, introduction and the writers’ names on page 3. Then answer the following questions.
1 I talked to children without parents. ____________
2 I helped sick children. ____________
3 I taught disabled children to sing. _________