UNIT 7 I'll help clean up the city parks.
SECTION B
1a Match the sentences with similar meanings.
1b Make sentences with the phrases in the box
using your ideas.
run out of take after fix up
give away
I gave away my bicycle to charity.
2a Listen and number the pictures (1-4)
in the correct order.
This morning I'm talking with a very generous
young man,Jimmy the Bike Boy.
Jimmy is the boy who fixes up old bikes and
gives them away.
Good morning,Jimmy.Good morning.
So,Jimmy,tell our listeners what you do.
Well,like you said,I find or buy old bikes that
nobody wants.
Then I fix up the bikes and give them away to
kids who don't have enough money to buy their
own bikes.That's fantastic.
What gave you the idea?
I guess I take after my father.
He's always helping people.
Wow!Your parents must be proud of you.
I guess so.But now I've run out of money to buy
old bikes.Oh,that's too bad.
Yeah.I need to come up with some way of getting
money or I'll have to stop.
2b Listen again.Circle "T"(for true) or "F" (for false).
2c PAIRWORK
Practice the conversation between Jimmy and the
reporter.Use the information from 2a and 2b.
3a Read the article and underline all the phrasal verbs.
Last week everyone was trying to cheer up Jimmy,
the Bike Boy.
But this week,Jimmy is happy again.
On Monday,he told a radio interviewer that he
had run out of money to buy old bikes.
He also put up some signs asking for old bikes
and called up all his friends and told them
about the problem.
He even handed out advertisements at a local supermarket.
Then he told the teachers at school about his
problem and they set up a call-in center for parents.
The strategies that he came up with worked out fine.
He now has sixteen bikes to fix up and give away
to children who don't have bikes.
3b Make a note of the things that Jimmy did to solve his problem.
4 GROUPWORK
Brainstorm a plan for helping out in your community.
Make notes on where you will help and what you
will do.Then tell the class about your plan.