I’ll help clean up the city parks

1c doing pairwork
in pairs you are to practice the conversations in the picture on page 60. then make similar conversations using the information in activity 1b.
▲i’d like to work outside.
▲you could help clean up the city parks.
▲i could visit sick children in the hospital.
we could help stop hunger by giving out food at the food bank. ●i’d like to work cleaning up the school playground.
●i’d like to help homeless people in my hometown.
●i’d like to cheer up sick kids.
●i could visit them in the hospital.
●i’d like to help kids with their english.
●we could volunteer in an after-school cleaning up program.
2a listening and checking
some students talking about planning a city parks clean-up day. listen to their talk and check√the things they are going to do.
tapescript
boy1; ok. now we need to come up with a plan to tell people about the city park clean-up.
girl1: yeah, but i’m hungry, bob. let’s have lunch first.
girl2: no, we can’t put off making a plan. clean-up day is only two weeks from now.
boy2: you’re right, sally. while we talk, i’ll write down all our ideas. then we can decide which ideas are best.
girl1: um… well… we could put up signs.√
boy2: that’s a good idea!
girl2: i’ll hand out advertisements after school.√
boy1; ok. great! and we could each call up ten people and ask them to come.√
boy2: hey, we’re coming up with a lot of good ideas, aren’t we?
2b listening and filling in blanks
i’ shall play the tape again and you are to listen and fill in the blanks in the box on 61.
1.we need to come up with a plan.
2.we can’t put off making a plan. clean-up day is only two weeks from now.
3. i’ll write down all our ideas.
4. we could put up signs.
5. i’ll hand out advertisements after school.
6. we could each call up ten people and ask them to come.
2c doing pairwork
let’s go on to role play the conversation in activity 2b.
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: i’ll write down all our ideas that we come out with.
a: we could put up signs after school.
b: we’ll hand out advertisements at weekends.
a: at home we could each call up ten people and ask them to come.
b: we could get online to make our plan known to all.
3a reading, underlining and circling
on page 62 is an article about volunteers. read it and underline the kinds of work they do. you have to circle the reasons why they like their work.
being a volunteer is great！
number 77 high school is home to three very special young people: li huiping, lan pei, and zhu ming. these three students all volunteer their time to help other people. this volunteer work takes each of them several hours a week, so it is a major commitment. huiping loves to read, and she puts this love to good use by working in the after-school care center at her local elementary school. here, she helps young children to read. pei loves animals, and plans to study to be a veterinarian when he leaves school. he spends every saturday morning working in an animal hospital. ming wants to be a professional singer. he sings for groups of people at the city hospital to cheer them up.