Урок 32. Volunteer work
Предмет: Английский язык, 9 класс

9 класс. Lesson 32.

Volunteer work

In this lesson

you will learn to read, listen and talk about volunteering.

Ключевые слова: volunteer, support, donate, encourage, animal shelter, natural choice, foster home, charity event, senior citizen, abandon, get involved, properly, plant, environmental volunteer, pet carer, festival volunteer, tutoring.

Речевой материал: volunteer, support, donate, encourage, animal shelter, natural choice, foster home, charity event, senior citizen, abandon, get involved, properly, plant, environmental volunteer, pet carer, festival volunteer, tutoring.

Основное содержание урока

Most teens hang out with their friends or watch TV after school, but some of them have a favorite hobby or a passion that they share with others through volunteering.

environmental volunteer/conservationist is someone who does conservation activities like planting trees or improving footpath (волонтер по защите окружающей среды/специалист по охране природы)

pet carer is someone who looks after pets or farm animals (зооняня)

festival volunteer is someone who works on a charity stall at a music festival festival volunteer (волонтер по организации фестивалей)

tutoring is teaching playing a musical instrument, a school subject, and other things (обучение, репетиторство)

Richard helps out at the animal shelter twice a week after school. What does he do as a pet carer? He helps the staff members feed, clean and exercise the farm animals and pets.

Judie is environmentally friendly because she is an environmental volunteer. Luckily, summer is not the only busy time for conservationists. Apart from planting trees and flowers, Judie takes care of living plants in terrariums in winter and autumn.

Peter knows how to organize work properly at a music festival because he is a festival volunteer. Peter helps out with tasks such as giving out wristbands, car parking, monitoring gates, litter picking or just keeping an eye on things. Peter is most encouraged when he gets a free ticket for his volunteer work, meets new interesting people, takes autographs from recognized musicians.

Volunteering opportunities in teaching are available for all age groups. Polina found this opportunity in helping children learn Spanish. She speaks Spanish fluently and is happy to share her knowledge with other people.

Do you have a skill or a passion that you would like to share with others? There are countless ways to do it. Just lend a helping hand!

Тренировочные упражнения

1 Fill in the gaps with the necessary words from the list: senior, answer, natural, full, charity, foster, burst, answer, staff, take.

1 _________choice

2 _________members

3 _________phone calls

4 _________ care of

5 _________ into tears

6_________ a full recovery

7 _________ home

8_________ event

9_________ citizen

2 Match the words with their meanings.

Charity event воодушевлять, ободрять

Animal shelter приют

Foster home приют для животных

Volunteer внести пожертвование

Donate благотворительная акция

Encourage предлагать помощь

3 Write the definitions of the words.

animal shelter ____________________
volunteer ________________________
donate ___________________________
charity event ______________________
encourage ________________________

4 Fill in the gaps with the verbs below in the correct form: get involved, support, donate, encourage, volunteer.

1 My family ___________ old clothes and books to the local charity shop.

2 I __________once a week at a children’s hospital.

3 Many people ___________ charities by giving money to them regularly.

4 The fact that so many of Paul’s friends came to see him in hospital after the accident really _____________ him.

5 She liked the idea of ________________________ with the local animal shelter and their campaign.

5 Underline the correct variant.

1 We found the puppy abandoned/neglected on the side of a motorway.

2 Our teacher has asked us to donate/report any books or toys we don’t need to the local children’s hospital.

3 If a person cannot look after a pet extremely/properly, they should not be allowed to own one.

4 The local council is asking for volunteers to plant/feed trees in the city square.

5 You can support/encourage charities like the Red Cross by volunteering or donating money.

6 Match the words in the two columns.

Get	into tears

Make	care of

Burst	choice

Take	out with

Natural	involved

Hang	a full recovery

7 Use the words below in their correct form to complete the sentences.

get involved

take care of

burst into tears

hanging out with

natural choice

made a full recovery

1 We should all _______________ with projects that will help improve our community.

2 Henry’s grown up on a farm, so he knows very well what it’s like to _____________ animals.

3 When the doctor told her that her puppy was going to be fine, she _______________.

4 Instead of ___________________ your friends all the time, why don’t you do something more useful?

5 I want to be a nurse, so volunteering at my local hospital was the natural ___________ for me.

6 When the kitten was found, it was very sick, but luckily it _____________________.

8 Put the sentences in the right order to make up a dialogue.

Sue: Once a day I volunteer to walk my neighbor`s dog and I also volunteer as a musician at a local community centre on Tuesday.

Greg: No, Sue, I haven`t. But my sister Margaret sometimes donates her old clothes, medicine and books to different nursing homes and children`s houses. What about you?

Sue: Greg, have you ever supported charity?

Sue: I do some volunteer work.

Sue: What a good idea! I will try to find the time for organizing some activity for us.

Greg: That`s interesting! I think we should get involved with some volunteering projects together.

Greg: What exactly do you do?

Контрольные задания

Вариант 1

1 Choose the right answer.

1 Sarah has joined a community action group which helps find foster _________ for animals that have nowhere to live.

A homes	B shelters	C farms

2 A number of students in our school _________ old books and school supplies to local charities every year.

A donate	B encourage	C support

3 John looked after the injured bird until it made a ___________ recovery.

A natural	B full	C worthwhile

4 Cindy __________ into tears when a car almost hit her dog as it ran into the street.

A took	B made	C burst

5 My grandmother has joined a senior ____________ club, where she can go on trips and do interesting activities with other people around the same age as her.

A members	B citizens	C persons

2 Put the sentences in the correct order.

1) I help out about three times a week, more at the weekend.

2) Sometimes my friends joke that the animal shelter is more like a zoo than a home.

3) Well, there are sometimes farm animals too, such as horses, sheep, goats, chickens.

4) I have worked at the animal shelter for three years.

5) I also speak to children about looking after pets properly.

6) When people come to us they think that we work with dogs, cats and other pets only.

7) I can’t but agree and truly feel here at home!

3 Distribute the words on voluntary work into the categories below.

Going shopping, conducting workshops, computing, listening to people with mental or learning disabilities, coaching, reception duties, assisting with doing craftwork, personal assistance, chatting.

Administrative work

Befriending

Arts

Вариант 2

1 Distribute the words on voluntary work into the categories below.

Listening to people with mental or learning disabilities, chatting, coaching, assisting with doing craftwork, going shopping, personal assistance, computing, reception duties, conducting workshops.

Befriending

Arts

Administrative work

2 Choose the right answer.

1 Johny took care of the injured bird until it made a ________recovery.

A natural	B full	C worthwhile

2 My grandfather has joined a senior __________ club, where she can go on trips and do interesting activities with other people around the same age as his.

A members	B citizens	C persons

3 Sarah has joined a community action group which helps find foster ________ for animals that have nowhere to live.

A homes	B shelters	C farms

4 A number of students in our school ___________ old books and school supplies to local charities every year.

A donate	B encourage	C support

5 Judith ____________ into tears when a car almost hit her dog as it ran into the street.

A took	B made	C burst

3 Put the sentences in the correct order.

1) I help out about three times a week, more at the weekend.

2) Sometimes my friends joke that the animal shelter is more like a zoo than a home.

3) Well, there are sometimes farm animals too, such as horses, sheep, goats, chickens.

4) I have worked at the animal shelter for three years.

5) I also speak to children about looking after pets properly.

6) When people come to us they think that we work with dogs, cats and other pets only.

7) I can’t but agree and truly feel here at home!