W 21 - Pre - Int

Week 21 – Pre – Intermediate – Volunteers

I)            Reading  & Listening:

1)   Read this l¡st of different duties that people volunteer to  do in developing countries. Which duties do you feel  you could do/ couldn't do?

a)  work in an orphanage 

b)  teach children to  read 

c)  look after sick animals 

d)  visit people in hospital

e)  teach  English

f)  help to construct houses, bridges,  roads

g)  do housework and  help in  people's homes

h)  plant trees and do organic farming

2)   Read the website information: Welcome to original volunteers

Change your life.

Do  something important.

Learn  new  skills,  gain

self-confidence and  make friends for life.

1.   Northern India

Volunteers live with a local family

Duties: you help in people’s homes, plant trees and do organic farming. You can also try learning Hindi.

Free Time: you can go to festivals and go trekking in the Himalayas.

2.   Ghana

Volunteers help at an orphanage

Duties: you play with the children and teach them to read

Free Time: you can visit the wonderful beaches or see the elephants in the National Park.

3)   Match the projects (1 and 2) with the duties (a-h)

Which duties does the information not mention?

4)   Listen to Helen and her friend.

 Which project is Helen going to join?

5)   Tick the things Helen says she's going to do.

a)  change her life    

b)  get  a  better boyfriend 

c)  do something  important

d)  work  with animals

e)  work  in all  orphanage

f)  get a good salary

Which of the two projects would you  like to do?

6)   Listen to a conversation between Helen and her mother about Helen's

arrangements for her trip to Ghana. Underline the correct word.

a)  Helen  is confident /  depressed /  surprised.

b)  Helen's mum is angry / embarrassed / worried.

7) Underline the correct information.

a)  Helen is arriving in Accra at 10.00 a.m./ p.m.

b)  Bob White is taking her to her school /  accommodation.

e)  She's staying with a Ghanaian /  Nigerian family.

d)  She's starting work on  Wednesday /  Monday.

e)  She's working in a big/  small town near Accra.

f)  She's coming back in  time for her mum's /  dad's birthday.

In what situations do you worry about your children?

II)         Grammar: future - be going to/ present continuous

1)   You can  use (be)  going  to  to talk about your future intentions.  You have made a decision about a future event and you are talking about that decision.

One of these days I’m going to get fit.  He's going to tell me all about his holidays.

You  can use the present continuous to talk about future arrangements. You  have arranged a future event and you are talking about that arrangement.

Are you  doing anything on Thursday?  We're  meeting the  President this  afternoon at  2.00 p.m.

2)   In many situations (be) going to and the present continuous are both possible. Put a tick if both options are possible. Put a cross if the present continuous is NOT  possible.

a)  I'm going to meet /  meeting a friend after the lesson. 

b)  I'm going lo start /  starting guitar lessons one day.

c)  My friends are going to come  /  coming round this evening.

d)  I'm going to see  /  seeing my grandparents this weekend.

e)  I'm going to read  /  reading a novel in  English one of these days.

f)  I'm going to win /  winning my tennis match this weekend!

g)  I'm going to  play  /  playing football on Monday.

h)  I’m going to learn  /  learning Chinese one day.

III)       Homework:

1)   Look at Jane's diary:

26th May

9.20:  Dentist

11.00:  Meet  Mum  in  town

1.00:  Lunch  with  Vicky

3.00: Tennis  with  Tim

4.30:  Collect  the  children  from  school

7.30-9.30:  Drink.  with  Tim

Complete the conversation:

Rick: Would you like  to  meet for a coffee tomorrow morning?

Jane: I can't _______________________

Rick: What about later in the morning?

Jane: Sorry, but ___________________________ .

Rick: OK. Are you free for lunch?

Jane: I'd love to, but _______________ .

Rick: And the afternoon?

Jane: ______________  with Tim, and then at 4.30 _____________ .

Rick: Dinner?

Jane: Look, I'm really sorry but from 7.30 to 9.30 __________________ .

Rick: OK, OK. Another time… By the way, who's Tim?

2)   Write questions about the future with (be)  going to

a)  drive home  /  after the lesson?  

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b)  watch TV /  this evening  ? 

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c) do anything interesting  /  next week  ?

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d) buy any new clothes  /  this weekend?

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e)  learn another foreign language /  one  day  ?

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f) travel abroad  /  next year  ?

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