Topic: Young Volunteers --Warming-up & Reading

Unit15 Popular Youth Culture

Zhang heng

Do you know the following three symbols?

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I. Warming-upBackground Knowledge on Voluntary Work

Volunteers Symbol of BEIJING 2008

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The shape of heart, composed of interweaved hearts, signifies that volunteers, athletes, the Olympic family, and all guests would render service and compassion in a joint effort to glorify the Olympic Movement. The shape of a dancing human stands for volunteers with dedicated spirit. The sincere smiles, outstanding services, and friendly actions of the volunteers will evoke a strong echo in every participant of the Olympics. Chinese unique artistic form -- calligraphic art is adopted in the beaming design of the secondary mark, which sets off against the Olympic Emblem --"Chinese Seal, Dancing Beijing."

• 　心心相扣的心形，象征志愿者与运动员、奥林匹克大家庭和所有宾客心连着心、用心服务、奉献爱心，为奥林匹克运动增添光彩。

• 　　欢快舞动的人形，展现了志愿者，奉献为乐的志愿精神。志愿者真挚的笑容、出色的服务、友善的行为将唤起每一位奥运会参与者的心灵共鸣。

• 　　北京 2008 年奥运会志愿者标志的设计，运用了中国独特的传统文化形式——中国书画艺术风格，与北京奥运会会徽“中国印•舞动的北京”相互映衬

22December 5thUnited Nations InternationalVolunteer Day

Kofi Annan, the then Secretary General of the United Nations ,said to global teenagers,

“Each contribution—no matter how small—can help make a difference and bring benefits.”

International Volunteer Day, December 5th The International Volunteer Day (IVD) provides an opportunity for volunteer-involving organizations and individual volunteers to work together on projects and campaigns promoting their contributions to economic and social development at local, national and international levels. IVD is a unique opportunity for government agencies, non-profit organizations, community groups, private sector and volunteer-involving organizationsto work together to attain common goals. Since 1985, governments, the UN system and civil society organizations have successfully joined volunteers around the world to celebrate the IVD on December 5th.

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Chinese youth volunteer

The whole composition of " Chinese youth volunteer" marking is the shape of a heart as well as the first letter of the alphabet Y of English" youth"; The central of the pattern is not only a hand, but the shape of a pigeon. Its implied meaning is that a Chinese youth volunteer offer benevolence and stretch out his hand of friendly affection to all the people who need help, and that they face the world and head for the future with the spirit of the new century, expressing the youth volunteer’s topic of " the enthusiasm dedicates the society; Warm the public with genuine feelings" .

“ 中国青年志愿者”标志的整体构图为心的造型，同时也是英文“青年”的第一个字母Y ；图案中央既是手，也是鸽子的造型。标志寓意为中国青年志愿者向社会上所有需要帮助的人们奉献一片爱心，伸出友爱之手，以跨世纪的精神风貌，面向世界，走向未来，表现青年志愿者“热情献社会；真情暖人心”的主题。

Around 24,000Young Volunteers Community Service Stations in China are welcoming increasing numbers of Chinese youth who want to make a contribution to society. They are making a difference , and they are also discovering that being a volunteer brings many personal benefits. Not only do they help to make other people’s lives better, but also they have found their own lives enriched as a consequence.

Let’s look at their voluntary work at local, national, and international levels!

Some volunteers help the people who live alone. The

y help the elders living alone do shopping, do house

work and sometimes read newspapers to them. The

elders enjoy their company and they

may feel more energetic and optimistic.

“1helps1”scheme of the Youth Volunteer CommunityDevelopment Project

Green Olympics

Some volunteers

teach in remote

areas to help

children there

receive good

education, and

their work is

making a big

difference

to the children’s

future.

They join the Go West Project.

Some volunteers go abroad to take part in the event to helpstarving children in some of the least developed countries.

II. ReadingTips1.Most English articles have three main parts – an introduction , a body, and a conclusion. The introduction defines the topic, provide some background information, and point out some of the important questions. The body contains the supporting examples, the comparison and causes and effect paragraphs. In the conclusion, the writer summarize the situation and try to answer some of the questions mentioned in the introduction. The beginning and the end echo each other, and the conclusion part usually shows the topic clearly.2. Linking NMETThe students’ abilities to summarize the main idea with the help of topic sentences and to find out detailed information are always tested in the NMET.

Part1 introduction

(para.1)

Part2 body

(paras.2-4)

Part3 conclusion

(para.5)

Three typical examples of Lu Hao, Lin Ying and Meng Yu and their experiences as volunteers and the benefits to both people they helped and themselves.

Call on people to do voluntary work by showing the difference they make.

The world acknowledges the work of young volunteers

By serving their local or national community, or an international project, youth volunteers make a great difference and being a volunteer brings many benefits.

Topic:

Individual work: Skimming

Detailed reading: 1. pair work : 5W+1H

volunteers

when For whom What to do

Lu Hao

Ling Ying

Meng YU

every Tuesday

and Friday

after graduation

at weeken

ds

elderly people

children in

remote areas

starvingchildren

shopping, house work, read , chat

teach

went without food

for 30 hours to raise money

2. Group discussion: List all the benefits

benefits to people helped & benefits to volunteers

Lu Hao Lin Ying Meng Yu

benefits to

others

benefits to

him or her

①The kids become eager to learn;

②the pass rate has risen;

③get rid of the poverty and has a bright future

Make the children get rid of starvation and live a better life.

① learns more history from Mr Zhao ;

② his grades have improved a lot.

①Gets satisfaction, acquires valuable skills and experience;

②builds confidence, self-awareness, good communication skills and leadership ability.

①Make friends ;

②feels more positive;

③value education;

④be given the motivation to succeed

① Mr Zhao doesn’t feel lonely any more;

② his health has improved; ③ feels more energetic and optimistic

As a consequence, Luo Hao, Lin Ying and Meng Yu are helping to make other people's lives better and have found their own lives enriched.They become confident and mature and make great friends, gain new skills and increase their chances of getting the job of their dreams.In a word, the youth volunteers do make a difference by their voluntary work! Why not join them and do something for our country?

Summary

Language practiceFill in the blanks with the correct forms of the following words and phrases.

make a contribution to, make a difference, open up, approve of, no matter how, worthwhile, without payment, voluntary, contribute to, leadership

Different students have different attitudes towards __________ work. Most of them _____________ doing voluntary work. They think that it can _________________________ society and that it is a ______________ job, It can also bring personal benefits and will _____________their promising future because they can gain valuable experience and skills

voluntaryapprove of

make a contribution toworthwhile

contribute to

for their future career. Voluntary work often _________opportunities for them and helps to build confidence,improve self—awareness and get good communicationskills and _________abilities. A few students disapprove of doing voluntary work.They think the work is done _______________ and it is awaste of time. There are also some students who do not have clearattitudes towards it, nor do they care about it. In my view, each of us should make a contributionto our society. ______________small the things are, weshould remember that they always_________________.

opens up

leadership

without payment

No matter howmake a difference

make a contribution to, make a difference, open up, approve of, no matter how, worthwhile, without payment, voluntary, contribute to, leadership

Homework

北京 2008 奥运会正在广泛招募志愿者 , 上周你班以Voluntary work in my eyes 为题召开了主题班会 ,讨论情况如下 :70% 的同学赞同志愿者工作 , 志愿者能为社会做贡献并在其中得到各种锻炼为将来工作积累经验 , 让自己成熟自信进步 , 这是非常有价值的 .25% 的同学不赞同 , 觉得浪费时间赚不到钱 .5% 的同学对此并不在乎不置可否 . 作为校报小记者 , 请你如实报道本次班会内容并帮助你的读者同学们正确认识志愿者工作 ,号召大家为北京奥运会做贡献并表达对奥运会的美好期待 .

Thank you!