Go for it J9

A guessing game

help

Do you often help others?

Tell us something about the last time you helped others.

I helped to clean the classroom.

I helped my parents with the chores.

I _________________________.

I _________________________.

Unit 8

I’ll help clean up the city parks.

There are many other ways you could help people.

You could help clean up the city parks.

You could cheer up the old people.

What other ways you could help people? Just think and fill in the chart.

other ways you could help people_____________________ _______________________

_____________________ _______________________

_____________________ _______________________

Here are four conversations about helping others. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks in each sentences.

1. I’d like to _____ outside. You could help clean _____ the city parks.

2. I’d like to _____ homeless people. You could give _____ food at the food bank.

3. I’d like to cheer _____ sick kids. You could _____ them in the hospital.

4. I’d like help kids _____ their schoolwork. You could _____ in an after-school study program.

Practice the conversation below. Then have similar conversation using the information in activity 1B.

A: I’d like to work outside.

B: You could help clean up the city parks.

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 fill in the blanks.

1. We need to ______ _______ _______ a plan.

2. We can’t _______ _______ making a plan. Clean-Up Day is only two weeks from now.

3. I’ll _______ _______ all our ideas.

4. We could _______ _______ signs.

5. I’ll _______ _______ advertisements after school.

6. We could each _______ _______ ten people and ask them to come.

Useful

phrases

cheer up set up clean up come up with put off

Task OneLei Feng Day is two weeks from now. We need to come up with a plan. What would you like to do? Talk with your partner and come up with a plan.

A: We need to come up with a plan.

B: Let’s have lunch first.

A: No’ we can’t put off making a plan. Clean-Up Day is only two weeks from now.

B: ….

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

Homeworkset up cheer up clean up put off

come up with write down

• I forgot to _____ its address _____, now I can’t find it.

• He couldn’t _____ an idea.• After meals, Hanmei often helps _____ the

table at home.• We have to _____ the meeting because of rain.• Young man, _____! Don’t cry for the over spilt

milk.• He _____ a new world record in September,

1935.

Section A

3a-4

A guessing game

What’s this?

A: I ‘ d like to do something for the Olympics in 2008 in Beijing. What should I do?

B: You could join the volunteer project. Being a volunteer is great!

Being a volunteer is great!

Useful

phrases

volunteer their time to plan to spend … doing… cheer up not only … but … set up put off

What kinds of volunteer work could these students do? After you read the article , fill in the table.

Name Loves Could

Hui football

Xiao Tang writing stories

Joy movies

Wei music

Role play. Take turns being one of the people in the article. Ask for and give advice.

A: I’d like to join the school volunteer project, but I’m not sure what should I do.

B: What do you like doing?

A: I love playing football.

B: Well, you could help coach a football team for little kids.

Task Two

If you work for the school volunteer project, some students want to be volunteers. Give your advice to them.

Section B

1a-4

Listen and match the sentences with similar meanings.

____ 1. I’ve run out of it. A. I repaired it.

____ 2. I take after my mother. B. I don’t have any more of it.

____ 3. I fixed it up. C. I am similar to her.

____ 4. I gave it away. D. I didn’t sell it.

Jimmy is a volunteer at the school volunteer project. After listening to the tape, can you guess what job Jimmy does? Make up a conversation with your partner.

Read the article and underline all the phrasal verbs.

Make a note of the things that Jimmy did to solve his problem.

1. He did a radio interview.

2. ______________________________.

3. ______________________________.

4. ______________________________.

5. ______________________________.

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.where ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ what ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Task 3

Write an article using the notes below. Tell what happens to Sally.

Sally Brown / a young woman / wants to be a professional singer / as a volunteer / sings at a local hospital / cheers up sick people / also sings at schools / ran out of money for singing lessons / came up with ideas for making money / put up signs asking for singing jobs / also called up parents offering singing lessons for children / now will be able to continue her lesson / become a professional singer

Make sentences using the phrasal verbs below.

come up with put off write down put up hand out call up cheer up clean up set up

How do you connect with your friends, have a call, write a letter or send an e-mail?

How is a letter different from an article? List three differences.

1. ________________________________________

2. ________________________________________

3. ________________________________________

Learning strategy:

using parts of speech

If you don’t understand a word or a phrase in English, ask yourself what part of speech it is. It might be a none, a verb or a preposition. Knowing what it is can help you understand better. And it allows you to use the new English word or phrase correctly in the future.

Find three examples of phrasal verbs from the reading. Using them to make sentences of your own.

1 . _______

Sentence: __________

__________

2 . ______

Sentence: __________

__________

3 . _______

Sentence:

__________

__________

SubjectMiss Li

Liz Smith

Lucky

“Animal Helpers”

Verbcan fetch

trains

donated

is

Object/predicateunable to move well.

money to “Animal Helpers”

animals like lucky.

things for disable people.

Use information in the letter to make true sentences by matching the different parts.

Write a short reply to Liz Smith. In your letter:1. Offer to help her

more.

2. Say why you are able to help.

3. Say what you could do to help.

Dear Liz,

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.