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A. Phonetics

1. Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined. Read the words aloud.

1.A. blanket             B. calorie

C. donate                 D. allergy

2.A. help                   B. benefit

C. elderly                  D. garden

3.A. volunteer          B. collage

C. community          D. doctor

4.A. provide             B. individual

C. situation              D. children

5.A. tutor                 B. student

C. university            D. discuss

Answer: 

• 1.C. donate       2. D. garden     3. C. community
• 4. A. provide     5. D. discuss 

2. Put the words in the box into two groups.

Answer: 

B. Vocabulary & Grammar

1. Find the odd one out A, B, C or D.

1.A. donate                     B. provide

C. encourage                  D. benefit

2.A. clean                        B. street

C. house                          D. wall

3.A. individual                B. industrial

C. essential                     D. environment

4.A. graffiti                      B. draw

C. painting                      D. collage

5.A. homeless                B. elderly

C. people                        D. disabled

Answer: 

• 1. D. benefit      2. A. clean     3. A. individual
• 4. B. draw         5. C. people

2. Circle A, B, C or D for each picture.

Answer: 

• 1. C. clean the street       2. A. help old people
• 3. D. donate blood        4. C. provide food

3. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense form.

1. You ever (do) ________ volunteer work?

2. Yes, I (do) __________ volunteer work last month.

3. I (collect) _____________ hundreds  of old books and clothes for street children so far.

4. My sister wants to raise funds for street children so she (make) _________ hundreds of postcards to sell them.

5. My hobby is carving eggshells and now I ( carve) __________ nearly 100.

6. Going home from school yesterday, I (help) __________ an old man to go cross the street.

7. Last Tuesday, I (go) __________ home late because there was a traffic jam near my school.

8. At Tet, my mother and her close friends often go to the hospitals to donate cakes, sweets and ________ for the sick children there. She (do) ________ it for many years.

9. Lan never (eat) _________ Banh tet. She will try some this year.

10. Linh is my close friend. We (know) ________ each other for 5 years.

Answer: 

• 1. Have you ever done...        2. did        
• 3. have collected                    4. has made
• 5. have carved 6. helped    7. went 8. has done
• 9. has never eaten             10. have known

4. Fill each blank with a word in the box.

donate     meals      homeless     help    rubbish

volunteer    rebuild    elderly    visited     went

1. Yesterday I ____________ to school late because I missed the bus.

2. A: Have you ever been to Hoi An?

    B: Yes, I  ______ Hoi An last year.

3. Can you list some reasons why people ____________?

4. Do you like working with children or with ____________ people?

5. It’s good to ____________ blood because you can save people’s lives.

6. The lakes are full of _________. We should ask our friends to clean them this Sunday.

7. The hurricane was terrible. Many houses are destroyed and many people became _________.

8. They are cold and hungry. They have to live on the street this winter. We should ask people to _________ them.

9. We can cook ___________ and bring them to homeless people.

10. We can ask people to donate warm clothes and help them to ___________ their houses.

Answer:  

• 1. went          2. visited       3. voluteer      4. elderly
• 5. donate     6. rubbish    7. homeless    8. help
• 9. meald    10. rebuild

C. Reading

1. Put a word from the box in each gap to complete the following passage.

project     helping    do      mentoring    enjoy

raising   giving    elderly    volunteer   population 

      In the United States, almost everyone, at one time or another, has been a (1) _________. According to _________ US government statistics, about one-fifth of the American (2) __________ does volunteer work each year. Americans have had the tradition of volunteering and (3) ________ one another since the early days of the country. Americans volunteer not because they are forced or paid to (4) __________ it. They (5) ________ it! Traditional volunteer activities include (6) ______ money for people in need, cooking and (7) ________ food, doing general labour ( such as clean-up (8) ________ and home repair), providing transportation ( such as giving rides to the (9) ______), and tutoring/ (10) _________ young people.

Answer: 

• 1. volunteer     2. population     3. helping     
• 4. do     5. enjoy      6. raising      7. giving    
•  8. project     9. elderly     10. mentoring

2. Read the conversation and answer the questions.

Hoa: Have you ever done volunteer work, Minh?

Minh: Yes. I take part in a programme that helps disabled children.

Hoa:  Really? What do you do there?

Minh:  Every Sunday, I go to the center and teach the children how to draw. You know the children there like drawing very much.

Hoa:  Wonderful. What else do you do?

Minh:  All the members in the programme try their best to help the children there. Some of us bath the children, some clean the house, some teach them how to cook, make cakes, some teach them English, singing and dancing. All children there enjoy learning new things.

Hoa:  Do you often give them toys, books or clothes?

Minh:  Sometimes. We’ve asked people to donate books and clothes to children. And I also raise money by selling my pictures.

Hoa:  Oh, drawing is not only your hobby but also a volunteer work.

Minh:  Right! Would you like to join us?

Hoa:  Yes. I’d love to.

Questions:

1. Has Minh ever done volunteer work?

__________________________________________________________

2. What programme does he take part in?

__________________________________________________________

3. What does he do to help the children on Sunday?

__________________________________________________________

4. What do other members in the programme do?

__________________________________________________________

5. What do the disabled children enjoy?

___________________________________________________________

Answer: 

• 1. Yes, he has.
• 2. He takes part in a programme that helps disabled children.
• 3. He teaches children how to draw.
• 4. They bath the children, clean the house, teah children how to cook, make cakes and some teach the children English, singing and dancing.
• 5. They enjoy learning new things.

3. Choose the correct word A, B or C for each gap to complete the following passage.

(1)______ January 17th, 1995, a powerful earthquake hit the city of Kobe, Japan. Many buildings (2) ________ or collapsed.

Soon after the earthquake, people in Kobe (3) _______ working together to save their city. Neighbours pulled each other out (4) _______ collapsed buildings. Ordinary people (5) ______ out fires even before the fire trucks arrived. Volunteers in Kobe organized themselves into (6) ________. They worked out a system to send (7) _________ to where it was needed. Some people (8) __________ food, water, clothes to different part of city. Some volunteers took (9) ________ of children who had lost their parents. Teams of volunteers from outside Japan helped, too.

Today, Kobe has been built. But people there still remember the outpouring of support they (10) ________ from all over the world back in 1995.

1. A. In                  B. At                 C. On

2. A. burn             B. burned       C. burning

3. A. to begin       B. begin          C. began

4. A. of                  B. on               C. with

5. A. to put           B. put              C. puts

6. A. teams          B. pair             C. group

7. A. help             B. helping       C. to help

8. A. bring           B. brings          C. brought

9. A. part             B. received      C. has received

10. A Receive     B. received       C. has received

Answer: 

• 1. C. on         2. B. burn     3. C. began    
• 4. A. of        5. B. put        6. A. teams
• 7. A. help  8. C. bought  9. B. care
• 10. B. received

D. Writing

1. Make up sentences using the words and phrases given.

Example: what/you/know/about/community/service?

What do you know about community service?

1. community service/ work / you / do/ for / benefits / of / community /.

__________________________________________________________________.

2. last / summer / I / provide / English / evening / classes / for/ twenty / children/.

__________________________________________________________________.

3. Go Green / non-profit / organization / that / protect / environment/.

__________________________________________________________________.

4. you / volunteer / if / you / help/ other/ people / willingly/ and / without / payment/. 

__________________________________________________________________.

5. my mother / often / donate / money / charitable / organisations/.

__________________________________________________________________.

Answer: 

• 1 Community service is the work you do for the benifit of the community.
• 2. Last summer, I provided English classes for twenty children.
• 3. Go Greenis a non- profit organization that protects the environment.
• 4. You are a voluteer if you help other people willingly and without payment.
• 5. My mother often donates money to charitable organizations.

2. Can you correct the tense in these sentences?

1. We clean the beach last Sunday.

___________________________________________________________________.

2. I didn’t see her for two weeks.

___________________________________________________________________.

3. Do you do your homework yet?

___________________________________________________________________.

4. I have collected coins when I was a little boy.

___________________________________________________________________.

5. I see a real elephant when I went to Ban Don last year.

___________________________________________________________________.

Answer: 

• 1. We cleaned the beach last Sunday.
• 2. I haven’t seen her for weeks.
• 3. Have you done your homework yet?
• 4. I collected coins when I was a little boy.
• 5. I saw a real elephant when I went to Ba Don last year.

3. Can you correct the passage? Write the correct version.

     some of my friends like helping other people they volunteer to work in charity groups who help the flood victims the children in the orphanage centres or the elderly people who live in the nursing houses the believe that charity brings about happiness therefore they often spend their summer vacations to help people in need.

Answer: 

• Some of my friends like helping other people. They volunteer to work in charity groups who helps the flood victims, the children in the orphanage centres or the elderly people who live in the nursing houses. They believe that charity brings about happiness. Therefore, they often spend their summer vacations to help the people in need.