Unit 15 Young volunteers
Teaching aim: To improve Ss’
readingcomprehension ability.
To red and understand the text.
To learn some useful expressions.
Teaching date:
Teaching procedure:
I.Pre-reading
II. Scanning
Scan the passage and then decide how many parts it can be divided into and what is the general idea of each paragraph.
The text can be divided into three parts:
Part one(para1): more and more people want to make a
contribution to society by doing
voluntary work.
Part two(para2 -4): three examples to support the main idea of the text.
Part three(para5): a conclusion.
Answer the questions.
The text
mainly tells us _____.
A.
voluntary work is interesting B.
voluntary work is demanding
C.
voluntary work can make a difference not only to the helped people but also to the volunteers themselves
whatever kind it is
D. how to do
voluntary work
2. From the text we can infer that
voluntary work is worth doing for_______.
A. only young people B.
healthy people
C. people with knowledge D. almost all people
3.volunteer do
voluntary work in order to____ __
A. make money
B. make a
contribution to society
C. kill time
D. become healthy
4.Volunteers refer to ______.
A .people who are
willing to help others
B. people ho devote their time to helping others
C. people who
donate their time to help to others
D. all of the above
III. Careful reading
Read the second part carefully and fill in the table
Name
What does he or she do
Time
Benefits to the people helped
Lu
Hao
Lin
Ying
Meng
Yu
List all the benefits mentioned in the text and add more .
IV. Reading
V. Useful expressions
1.acknowledge vt.
告知已收到,承认(属实),为…表示感谢
① ~ sth. 承认,感谢 ② ~ sb. to be/as 承认
③ ~ +doing sth. 承认 ④ ~ that-clause 承认 Confess 常不情愿
He acknowledged his faults.
He ~d it to be true. He ~d that it was true.
They ~d having been defeated.
They ~d that they had been defeated.
Acknowledge the applause谢幕
Acknowledge the
receipt of a letter表示收到来信
Acknowledge a favor答谢所受到的关照
It is
universallyacknowledge that ……是大家所公认的
suggest risk devote to, stand deny escape;
建议冒险去献身,忍受否认不逃跑;
give up delay regret, insist on
appreciate practise;
放弃延期悔失去,坚持欣赏实践成;
Admit/acknowlege
forgive avoid resist, consider put off cannot help;
承认原谅避反对,考虑推迟不自禁;
permit/allow be used to mind, be worth imagine.
允许习惯不介意;价值开始想动名.
2.Company n.
1) 友谊; 交情;陪伴
他陪伴我。 He kept me company.
2) 伴侣;同伴
我在旅行中没有同伴。
I had no company on the journey.
in the company of
在...陪同下
3. Make a / one’s
contribution to / towards doing sth
为环境保护作贡献是我们的义务.
It is our duty to make a
contribution to protecting the environment.
4.
whereas conj.
然而, 反之, 鉴于, 尽管, 但是
有些人喜欢肥肉,相反有些人讨厌肥肉。
Some people like fat meat,
whereas others hate it.
他们想要一座房子, 而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
They want a house,
whereas we would rather live in a flat.
5.straight away /off : without
hesitation /delay 马上
I can’t tell you straight away.
6. fit in: be in
harmony with sb./sth 适合,配合,谐调,一致
a) This information does not fit in with what I was told yesterday.
b) You should fit in with other employees.(与…和睦相处)
7.Starve
starve to death
starve for sth. (eg. love, food)
be starved of
发动机没有汽油,启动不了.
The engine was starved of petrol and wouldn’t start.
8.Relief n.
1 ) 免除,解脱的感觉
脱贫poverty relief
听说我已经通过了考试,感到轻松多了。
I felt great
relief when I heard
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