I’ll help to clean up the Unit 2 I’ll help to clean up the city parks. Section A 3a-3c 八年级(下)

Volunteer Day clean up the street cheer up the elderly

give out the posters plant trees --I’d like to help others on volunteer day. --You could ...

Look and say A: I’d like to work outside. B: You could help clean up the city parks.

A: I’d like to ___________________. B: You could ________ food at the food bank. help homeless people give out

A: I’d like to ________________. B: You could _____ them in the hospital. cheer up sick kids visit

What else could we do to help people? help children with their schoolwork. visit the old in an old people’s home. help watch the traffic. give our old books to “Hope School”. … I’d like to I hope to I could I volunteer to

Students Who Volunteer 3a. Read the article. What do Mario and Mary volunteer to do? Students Who Volunteer Mario Green and Mary Brown from Riverside High School give up several hours each week to help others. Mario loves animals and wants to be an animal doctor. He volunteers at an animal hospital every Saturday morning. Mario believes it can help him to get his future

dream job. “It’s hard work,” he says, “but I want to learn more about how to care for animals. I get such a strong feeling of satisfaction when I see the animals get better and the look of joy on their owners’ faces.” Mary is a book lover. She could read by herself at the age of four. Last year, she decided to try out for a volunteer after-school reading program.

She still works there once a week to help kids learn to read She still works there once a week to help kids learn to read. “The kids are sitting in the library, but you can see in their eyes that they’re going on a different journey with each new book. Volunteering here is a dream come true for me. I can do what I love to do and help others at the same time.”

Listen and answer the question: What do Mario and Mary volunteer to do? Mario volunteers at an animal hospital every Saturday morning. Mary volunteers at an after-school reading program. And she also works there once a week to help kids learn to read.

3b. Read the article and answer the questions. Why do Mario and Mary volunteer to help others? 2. What do they say about volunteering?

Why do Mario and Mary volunteer to help others? Mario volunteers because he loves animals and wants to be an animal doctor. Mary volunteers because she is a book lover.

2. What do they say about volunteering? Mario says that volunteering is a hard work, but he wants to learn more about how to care for animals. He gets such a strong feeling of satisfaction when he sees the animals get better and the look of joy on their owners’ faces. Mary says that volunteering there is a dream come true for her. She can do what she loves to do and helps others at the same time.

3c. Use infinitives to complete the sentence below. 1. Mario would like ______an animal doctor. 2. Mario works for an animal hospital because he wants ________ about how________ for animals. 3. Mary decided ________ for a job at an after- school reading program last year. She still works there now_______ kids learn to read. 4. Mary has a dream job because she can do what she loves________. to be to learn to care to try out to help to do

Language points

He volunteers at an animal hospital every Saturday morning. 地震后他成了一名志愿者。 He became a volunteer after the earthquake. 她自愿在那个小村庄里教书。 She volunteered to teach in that small village. 他自愿充当服务生。 He volunteered to serve as a waiter.

2. I get such a strong feeling of satisfaction when I see the animals get better and the look of joy on their owners’ faces.” 当我看到动物们病情渐好，看到它们主人 脸上喜悦的表情时，我产生那么一种极强 的满足感。 “get” 两次用法不同。 第一个get意为 “产 生，形成”，为及物动词， 常与feeling(感觉, 情感)，idea（想法，主意）等词搭配使 用，例如： How did you get such an idea?

第二个 get 为系动词，后接形容词，表示体质、情绪、天气等方面的变化，通常译作“变为” 如： He got angry with me after that. 那之后他就生我气了。 It’s getting hotter now. 现在天气越来越热了。

3. She could read by herself at the age of four. 常与动词或动词短语连用，作句子的方式 状语。 e.g. Children should learn to do things by themselves. 孩子们应该学会独立做事。

4. Volunteering here is a dream come true for 真”，是固定搭配，再如： I got the latest CD player as a birthday present yesterday. It was just a dream come true! 昨天我收到一份生日礼物，是那种最新的 CD播放机，真是梦想成真啦。

volunteer可作为及物动词，意为“自愿献出”； 它还可以作不及物动词，意为“自愿”；还可 以作名词，意为“志愿者”。例如： Would you like to volunteer your money to help him? I volunteer to help the disabled. These students are volunteers.

Exercises

单项选择。 1. He looks sad. Let’s________. cheer up him B. cheer him up C. fix up him D. cheer he up 2. We’re going to_____ tables before the party. A. fix up B. put up C. set up D. cut up 3. I didn’t sell it. I ____ it ______for free. A. put…up… B. put…on… C. put…down… D. give…away… B A D

4. I don’ t have any more of these kind of paper. I have ________it. A. run of out B. run of C. run out D. run out of 5. If the UFO came, I would ____the police. A. call out B. speak out C. call up D. speak up 6. We can’ t ______reviewing because the final test is only three weeks from now. A. put out B. put off C. put down D. write down D C B

7. We could_______ some movie posters on the wall of our cinema. put out B. put off C. put down D. put up 8. I’d like to join the school volunteer project, but _____ ？ what I should do B. what must I do C. what should I do D. what I must do D C

Homework Read the passage in 3a after the tape. Remember the new words and expressions in this lesson. Preview the grammar focus part.

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