Giving your time

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: welcome to the food bankListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Question tags and polite requestsGrammar rule
11. 11Add the tagGrammar exercise
12. 12Say it naturallySpeaking practice
13. 13The school board debateSpeaking practice
14. 14Let's discussDiscussion
15. 15Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: question tagsGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a volunteer opportunityDiscussion

Words

• give back/ˌɡɪv ˈbæk/

  to do something good for your community or for the people who helped you

• make a difference/ˌmeɪk ə ˈdɪfrəns/

  to have a good effect on a person or a situation

• nonprofit/ˌnɑːnˈprɑːfɪt/

  an organization that exists to help people or a cause, not to make money for its owners (also an adjective)

• expertise/ˌekspɜːrˈtiːz/

  special skill or knowledge in a particular area

• fundraiser/ˈfʌndreɪzər/

  an event or an activity to collect money for a cause

• commitment/kəˈmɪtmənt/

  a promise to give your time or effort to something

• mandatory/ˈmændətɔːri/

  required by a rule or a law

• resentment/rɪˈzentmənt/

  a feeling of anger because you think you have been treated unfairly

• worthwhile/ˌwɜːrθˈwaɪl/

  worth the time, money or effort that you give

• disadvantaged/ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪdʒd/

  having less money, education or opportunity than most people

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about helping others.

1. Has a volunteer ever helped you, for example a coach, a tutor or a guide? What did they do?
2. Who in your family or neighborhood helps other people the most?
3. Which causes matter most to you: animals, the environment, children, older people or something else?

Grammar rule

Question tags and polite requests

Sentence	Tag	Example
positive	negative	He's your cousin, isn't he?
negative	positive	They haven't arrived yet, have they?
no helping verb (present / past simple)	do / does / did	She works here, doesn't she? You saw it, didn't you?
a modal verb	the same modal	We should leave soon, shouldn't we?

The tag repeats the helping verb and uses a pronoun: The kids can swim, can't they? Question tags check information or invite someone to agree.

Polite requests

Could I ask you to…? · Would you mind (not) …ing? · I was wondering if you could… · Do you think you could…?

Falling intonation on the tag means you expect agreement (It's cold, ISN'T it?↘); rising intonation makes it more of a real question (You remembered your ID, DIDN'T you?↗). The unit's grammar lesson practices question tags, negative questions and softeners fully.