Unit 8 I’ll help clean up the city parks．

please read the article the first time and underline the things they do. there are three questions on the blackboard to help you.
write the three questions on the blackboard and tell them to scan the passage to get the answers and underline the words.
questions
 1. what does li huiping do to help people as a volunteer?
 2. what does lan pei do?
 3. what does zhu ming do?
check the answers by asking three students to answer the questions.
read the article to the class and do some explanation on any new words. tell the students to raise their hands when i come to any word or sentence they don’t understand. pause and do some explanation.
try to explain the new words in english like this: major means more important, for example, a major operation, the major roads; a veterinarian means an animal doctor, a doctor who treats animals.
after that, get the students to read the article a second time to circle the reasons.
check the answers with the class.
then have the students read the article loudly twice. encourage them to ask questions if they still can’t understand any words or sentences.
move around the classroom and answer the students’ questions.
step ⅲ 3b
read the instructions to the students.
and tell them i love english. i could teach english in an after-school program.
hui loves playing football. what could hui do if he wants to join the school volunteer project?
help the students answer. he could coach a fcf6tball team for little kids.
tell them coach means teach or train.
then ask the students to look at the table in activity 3b.
we can see three columns in this form.
there are four names in the first column.
and we can know what each of them loves doing from the second column, the column of loves. now our task is to fill in the blanks in the third column, the column of could. get the students to discuss in pairs and fill the results of their discussions in the blanks.
move around the classroom to make sure that they are discussing in english and offer them help as necessary.
ask several pairs to report their answers to the class. answers will vary but should show a sense of volunteering as well as a relationship to the skill.
they may give answers in completely sentences orally but write in phrases.
step ⅳ 3c
ask a pair of the students to model the sample conversation first.
write the conversation on the blackboard.
model for the rest of the class.
then let the whole class practice in pairs. remind them to use the sample conversation, but replace the words loves and skills.