UNIT 7 I'll help clean up the city parks.
SECTION A
Language Goal:Offer help
1a Look at the bulletin board and read about
ways you could help people.
Then list other ways you could help people.
I'd like to work outside.
You could help clean up the city parks.
Other ways you could help people
1b Listen and complete the sentences.
Conversation 1
I'd like to work outside.
You could help clean up the city parks.
Conversation 2
I'd like to help homeless people.
You could give out food at the food bank.
Conversation 3
I'd like to cheer up sick kids.
You could visit them in the hospital.
Conversation 4
I'd like to help kids with their schoolwork.
You could volunteer in an after-school study program.
1c PAIRWORK
Practice the conversation in the picture above.
Then have similar Conversations using the
information in 1b.
2a A group of students are planning a City Parks
Clean-Up Day.
They are talking about ways to tell people about
the Clean-Up Day.
Listen and check(√)the things the students are going to do.
OK.Now we need to come up with a plan to tell
people about the city park clean-up.
Yeah,but I'm hungry,Bob.Let's have lunch first.
No,we can't put off making a plan.
Clean-up Day is only two weeks from now.
You're right,Sally.While we talk,I'll write down all our ideas.
Then we can decide which ideas are best.
Um...well...we could put up signs.
That's a good idea!
I'll hand out advertisements after school.
OK.Great!And we could each call up ten people
and ask them to come.
Hey,we're coming up with a lot of good ideas,
aren't we?
2b Listen again.Fill in the blanks.
2c PAIRWORK
Role play the Conversation in 2b.
We need to come up with a plan.
Let's have lunch first.
No,we can't put off making a plan.
Clean-Up Day is only two weeks from now.
Grammar Focus
Phrasal verb
Sentence
Meaning of phrasal verb
cheer up
He looks sad.Let's cheer him up.
make someone happier
set up
We're going to set up a food bank to help hungry people.
establish,start
come up with
We need to come up with some ideas.
think up
3a Read this article about volunteers.
Underline the kinds of work the volunteers do.
Circle the reasons why they like their work.
Being a volunteer is great!
Number 77 High School is home to three very
special young people:
Li Huiping,Lin Pei and Zhu Ming.
These three students all volunteer their time to
help other people.
This volunteer work takes each of them several
hours a week,so it is a major commitment.
Huiping loves to read,and she puts this love to
good use by working in the after-school care
center at her local elementary school.
Here,she helps young children to read.
Lin Pei loves animals and plans to study to be a
veterinarian when he leaves school.
He spends every Saturday morning working in an
animal hospital.
Zhu Ming wants to be a professional singer.
He sings for groups of people at the city
hospital to cheer them up.
"Volunteering is great!"says Huiping.
"Not only do I feel good about helping
other people,
but I get to spend time doing what I love to do.
Lin Pei says he has learned more about animals.
Zhu Ming says he has met some wonderful people
at the hospital.
The three students plan to set up a student
volunteer project at their school.
"Don't put it off,"says Huiping.
"Become a volunteer today!"
3b What kinds of volunteer work could these
students do? Fill in the table.
Name Loves Could Xu Hui soccer
Xiao Tang writing stories Joy movies
Gong Wei music
3c PAIRWORK
Role play.Take turns being one of the people in
3b. Ask for and give advice.
I'd like to join the school volunteer project,
but I'm not sure what I should do.
What do you like doing?
I love playing soccer.
Well,you could help coach a soccer team
for little kids.
4 PAIRWORK
Write down three things you like to do.
Ask your partner for advice about the kinds
of volunteer work you could do.
Things I like to do
Volunteer work I could do
I like to read about Chinese history.
What kind of volunteer work do you think I could do?
You could start a Chinese History Club.