Welcome to my class

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Welcome to my class
Go for it J9
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A guessing game
help
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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 _________________________.
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Unit 8

• Ill help clean up the city parks.

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There are many other ways you could help people.
You could help clean up the city parks.
You could cheer up the old people.
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What other ways you could help people? Just think
and fill in the chart.
other ways you could help
people _____________________
_______________________ _____________________
_______________________ _____________________
_______________________
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Here are four conversations about helping others.
Listen carefully and fill in the blanks in each
sentences.

1. Id like to _____ outside. You could help clean
   _____ the city parks.
2. Id like to _____ homeless people. You could give
   _____ food at the food bank.
3. Id like to cheer _____ sick kids. You could
   _____ them in the hospital.
4. Id like help kids _____ their schoolwork. You
   could _____ in an after-school study program.

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pairwork
Practice the conversation below. Then have
similar conversation using the information in
activity 1B.
A Id like to work outside. B You could help
clean up the city parks.
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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 cant _______ _______ making a plan. Clean-Up
   Day is only two weeks from now.
3. Ill _______ _______ all our ideas.
4. We could _______ _______ signs.
5. Ill _______ _______ advertisements after
   school.
6. We could each _______ _______ ten people and ask
   them to come.

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Useful phrases
cheer up set up clean up
come up with put off
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Lei 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 Lets have
lunch first. A No we cant put off making a
plan. Clean-Up Day is only two weeks from now. B
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Phrasal verb Sentence Meaning of phrasal verb
cheer up He looks sad. Lets cheer him up. make someone happier
set up Were 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
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Homeworkset up cheer up clean up put off
come up with write down

• I forgot to _____ its address _____, now I cant
  find it.
• He couldnt _____ an idea.
• After meals, Hanmei often helps _____ the table
  at home.
• We have to _____ the meeting because of rain.
• Young man, _____! Dont cry for the over spilt
  milk.
• He _____ a new world record in September, 1935.

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Section A

• 3a-4

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A guessing game
Whats this?
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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!
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reading
Being a volunteer is great!
volunteer their time to plan to
spend doing cheer up
not only but set up put off
Useful phrases
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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
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pairwork
A Id like to join the school volunteer project,
but Im 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.
Role play. Take turns being one of the people in
the article. Ask for and give advice.
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If you work for the school volunteer project,
some students want to be volunteers. Give your
advice to them.
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Section B

• 1a-4

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Listen and match the sentences with similar
meanings.
____ 1. Ive run out of it. A. I
repaired it. ____ 2. I take after my mother. B.
I dont have any more of it. ____ 3. I fixed it
up. C. I am similar to
her. ____ 4. I gave it away. D. I
didnt sell it.
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pairwork
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.
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reading
Read the article and underline all the phrasal
verbs.
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after reading
Make a note of the things that Jimmy did to solve
his problem.

1. He did a radio interview.
2. ______________________________.
3. ______________________________.
4. ______________________________.
5. ______________________________.

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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 ____________________
__________________________________________________
________________________________________________
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writing
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
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homework
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
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How do you connect with your friends, have a
call, write a letter or send an e-mail?
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per-reading
How is a letter different from an article? List
three differences.

1. ________________________________________
2. ________________________________________
3. ________________________________________

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reading
Learning strategy using parts of speech If you
dont 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.
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after reading
Find three examples of phrasal verbs from the
reading. Using them to make sentences of your own.
1 . _______ Sentence __________ __________ 2 . ______ Sentence __________ __________ 3 . _______ Sentence __________ __________
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exercise
Use information in the letter to make true
sentences by matching the different parts.
Subject Miss Li Liz Smith Lucky Animal Helpers Verb can fetch trains donated is Object/predicate unable to move well. money to Animal Helpers animals like lucky. things for disable people.
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homework
Write a short reply to Liz Smith. In your letter
Dear Liz, ________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
_______________.

1. Offer to help her more.
2. Say why you are able to help.
3. Say what you could do to help.