Unit 3 grade 7: Community Service – Skills 1
1. Reading
1.1. Task 1 Unit 3 Grade 7
Read the text about volunteer work in the United States. (Read the passage about volunteer work in America)
In the United States, almost everyone, at one time or another, has been a volunteer. According to US government statistics, about one-fifth of the American population does volunteer work each year. Americans have had the tradition of volunteering and helping one another since the early days of the country.
Americans volunteer not because they are forced or paid to do it. They enjoy it! Traditional volunteer activities include raising money for people in need, cooking and giving food, doing general labor (such as clean-up projects and home repair), providing transportation (such as giving rides to the elderly), and tutoring/mentoring young people.
(adapted from “Volunteering: An American Tradition” by Susan J. Ellis and Katherine H. Campbell in eJournal USA: The Spirit of Volunteerism. US Department of State, 2012).
Translated:
In America, most people have volunteered. According to government statistics, about one-fifth of the US population does volunteer work each year. Americans have had a tradition of volunteering and helping others since the earliest days of our nation’s founding.
Americans volunteer not because they are forced or given money to volunteer. They love to do it! Traditional volunteering activities include raising money for those in need, cooking and distributing food, doing manual labor (such as cleaning and home improvement projects), providing services, and providing services. transportation services (such as transporting the elderly), and tutoring/guided young people.
1.2. Task 2 Unit 3 Grade 7
Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). (Determine the following statements True (T) or False (F).)
Guide to answer
1 T. According to the text, nearly every American has done volunteer work in his or her life.
(According to the passage above, nearly every American has volunteered in their lifetime.)
2 T. Every year almost one in five Americans works as a volunteer.
(Each year, almost 1 out of 5 American jobs is volunteering.)
3-F. Americans have been volunteering for less than 50 years.
(Americans have been volunteering for less than 50 years.)
4-F. Americans volunteer because they are forced to do it.
(Americans volunteer because they have to.)
1.3. Task 3 Unit 3 Grade 7
Which of the activities below are traditional volunteer activities in the United States? Tick (v) the boxes. (Which of these activities are traditional volunteering activities in the United States. Check the box.)
Guide to answer
Activities: 2, 3, 5, 6
Translation
first. animal care
2. raise money
3. cook meals
4. Blood Donation
5. clean up the street
6. teach children
2. Speaking
2.1. Task 4 Unit 3 Grade 7
Idea bank: Fill in the table with your ideas for volunteer activities. (Idea bank: Fill in the table with your ideas for volunteer activities)
Guide to answer
To help repair things, we could… |
repair tables, chairs, rice cookers, electric appliances. |
To help people with transportation, we could… |
give rides to the elderly, accompany the disabled cross the street |
To tutor young children, we could… |
help them to do homework or teach them |
Translation
To help fix things, we can… |
repair tables, chairs, cabinets, indoor car |
To make it possible for people to transport, we can… |
carry the elderly around |
To be a tutor for young children, we can…. |
guide children to do homework or help them study |
2.2. Task 5 Unit 3 Grade 7
Work in groups. Share the ideas in your idea bank with your group members. Then, use the most interesting ideas to create a new group idea bank and share it with the class. (Work in groups. Share the ideas in the idea bank above with your group members. Then, use the most interesting ideas to create a new idea bank group and share it with the class. .)
Example:
A: We could make postcards and sell them to raise money.
B: What types of postcards?
C: Where should we sell them?
Translated:
A: We should make cards and sell them to raise money.
B: What kind of card?
C: Where should we sell?
Guide to answer
1. A: We could cook food and bring it to street children to provide food.
B: What kinds of food?
A: Rice with fish and meat, vegetable soup.
C: How often do we bring food to them?
A: 4 times a week.
Translation:
A: We can cook food and bring it to street children to provide food.
B: What kind of food?
A: Rice with fish, meat, vegetable soup.
C: How often do we give them food?
A: 4 times a week.
2 A: We could repair table, chair, withdraw, car in the house to help repair things.
B: Whom will we help?
A: We will help the elderly people, the people in need.
C: How often do you help do?
A: Once a week
Translated:
A: We can fix tables, chairs and cabinets to help fix something.
B: Who will we help?
A: We will help the elderly who need help.
C: How often do we help once?
A: Once a week.
4. A: We could give them rides to the elderly, to help them with transportation.
B: How often do we help them?
A: 3 times a week.
Translation:
A: We can give the elderly a ride to help them in traffic.
B: How often do we help them once?
A: 3 times a week.
5. A: We could mentor young children to do homework, help them study the lesson and to tutor.
B: Where can we teach them?
A: At their home
Translation:
A: We can guide children with their homework, help them study and tutor them.
B: Where do we teach them?
A: At their home.
3. Practice Task 1
True or False? (Choose True(True) or False(False))
Volunteer work among Vietnamese students
Hue, 17 years old: Being able to make a difference in the lives of people is a wonderful thing to me. That’s why I take part in volunteer work. I’ve been a volunteer for over three years. Once or twice a week, usually on weekends, I teach English and Math to poor children in Long Bien district. My friends and I also encourage other people to donate books to them. We also tutor some young children who can’t go to school.
Ngan, 13 years old: My family spends one Saturday morning a month collecting rubbish or planting trees in our neighbourhood. We are not forced or paid to do it, but we enjoy it. In our village, most families volunteer to do this once a month. We cook and give food to patients in some hospitals. My parents also donate their blood once or twice a year to help sick people. At the end of each year, people in my village raise money for poor and homeless people. We love helping others.
Question 1: Hue loves to make a difference in the lives of people.
Question 2: Hue started volunteering when she was 14 years old.
Question 3: Ngan collects rubbish in the neighborhood with her family on Saturday mornings.
Question 4: Ngan’s family doesn’t like volunteering.
Question 5: Many families in Ngan’s village do volunteer work.
Question 6: Ngan’s parents encourage people to donate blood to help sick people.
4. Practice Task 1
Put a word from the box in each gap to complete the following passage. (Put a word from the box in a space to complete the passage below.)
Question 1: It is the first time I have done _____ work.
Question 2: We have _____ to this village to do volunteer work several times.
Question 3: On the way home I _______ an old lady go across the road.
Question 4: We provided foods for the ______ in the hospital last week.
Question 5: Up to now, my class has collected hundreds of old books and clothes for the poor children in ______ areas.
Question 6: My friend opened the evening ______ for the poor children.
Question 7: Youth volunteers regularly ______ the streets and plant more trees.
Question 8: I ______ blood for the first time almost a year ago.
Question 9: The storm was terrible. Many homes were destroyed and many people became ______.
5. Conclusion
At the end of the lesson, students need to complete assignments, practice reading comprehension and answering related questions, practice talking about volunteer activities; Also memorize the following words:
- force /fɔːs/ required
- tutor /ˈtjuːtə(r)/ tutor/ tutor
- mentor (n/v) /ˈmentɔː(r)/ mentor/ guide
- donate /dəʊˈneɪt/ donate
- raise /reɪz/ donate
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