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👉SKILLS 1
Reading
1. Work in pairs. Circle the activities you would like to do at your school.
A. growing vegetables in the school garden
B. tutoring other students
C. collecting books for the school library
2. Read the passage and match the highlighted words with their meanings.
1. give 4. pleased
2. give and receive 5. teach
3. every month
Bright Future School has many community activities for students. The school believes that a good way for students to develop themselves is through community service. All students can join any of these different projects:
- Tutoring: Upper grade students tutor lower grade students.
- Postcard-to-Help: Students make and sell postcards to raise money for local children.
- Visit-to-Read: Students visit a nursing home monthly and read books to the elderly.
- Garden-to-Give: Students grow vegetables and donate them to local schools.
- Paper-Plant-Exchange: Students collect paper and exchange it for plants. They then look after the plants in their school garden.
Students learn that they can help people and the world around them when they do community service. They feel useful and proud because they do good things.
3. Read the passage again and tick (✔) T (True) or F (False).
| T | F | |
| 1. Community service allows students to develop themselves. | ||
| 2. Each student can join only one project. | ||
| 3. They tutor younger students. | ||
| 4. Local children receive postcards from the Postcard-to-Help project. | ||
| 5. Students receive plants when they give paper. |
Speaking
4. Work in pairs. Read about these students. Write the names of the projects you think they should join in the Projects column.
A. Tutoring D. Garden-to-Give
C. Visit-to-Read E. Paper-Plant-Exchange
B. Postcard-to-Help
| Projects | |
| 1. Nick likes reading books. He has a very nice voice, and he is also patient | |
| 2. Ann is very good at maths and literature. She also loves children. | |
| 3. Minh loves collecting and making postcards. | |
| 4. Mark loves nature. He likes watching programmes about plants. He also likes being outdoors. | |
| 5. Tom likes collecting newspapers. |
5. Work in groups. Discuss which project in 4 you would like to join, and why. Report your group's answers to the class.
Example:
Lan will join the Tutoring project because she is good at maths and English. She also loves children.
