About this lesson
This unit focuses on the theme of helping others and community service. It includes reading texts about a girl named Sama who receives kindness from a neighbor and feels better, and a firefighter named Radwan who describes the risks and rewards of his job. Students practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, listening, speaking, and writing skills. The unit also teaches modal verbs for advice, rules, and prohibition, and guides students in writing a descriptive essay using sensory details.
Main topics in this lesson
- Helping others and community service
- Kindness and its effects
- Volunteering and personal growth
- Community service in times of danger
- Showing respect and building relationships
- Descriptive writing
Key terms and vocabulary
- community
- volunteer
- transformed
- saplings
- support
- confidence
- rescue
- risky
- obligation
- emergency
- trust
- protect
- fade
- irresistible
- isolated
- light up
- optimism
- overwhelmed
- slip
Questions and answers on Hands Help, Hearts Care - practice and revision
Multiple choice questions on this lesson in English for 1st secondary, First Term, with practice exercises for revision and exam preparation.
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Volunteers plant saplings and support their community. Which sentence shows how volunteering can transform a person?
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Volunteering can give a person confidence and fill them with optimism.
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Volunteering makes a person feel isolated and overwhelmed.
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3
Volunteering is an obligation that everyone mustn't enjoy.
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Volunteering makes trust fade between people in the community.
2
Radwan's job as a firefighter is risky, but he still rescues people in emergencies. Which sentence best describes what Radwan must do during an emergency?
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He must protect people and rescue them even though the work is risky.
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He should stay home because the work is too risky.
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3
He mustn't enter dangerous places at any time.
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4
He has to fade away when he feels overwhelmed.
3
Sama felt better after her neighbour showed her kindness. What should Sama do to help a new student who feels isolated at school?
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She should offer support and make the student feel welcome.
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She mustn't speak to the student at all.
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She has to ignore the student until the teacher asks her.
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4
She shouldn't show any kindness because it is not her obligation.
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