Unit 10 - Give Me a Hand

Descriptors

Practise asking for help.

Read a news story about helping a community in Burundi.

Practise vocabulary of asking for help, phrases with give, verbs like bring, take and hold, and phrases with hand.

Practise verb patterns (give me the brush and give the brush to me), subject and object pronouns, and can for requests.

Listen to a conversation between two friends travelling together.

Practise what you have studied so far in this unit.

Write sentences about ways of helping people to send to your tutor.

Practise making requests and excuses.

Practise different pronunciations of the letter u.

Visit the Forum to give your opinion about giving money to aid organisations. (This is an optional activity designed to give you extra writing practice.)

Write a description of how you helped someone or how they helped you, either at home, at work, or connected with your studies.

Practise the /ĘŚ/ sound and speaking about helping someone.

Talk to your tutor about the unit and the topic you wrote about in Tutorial 2.

Review the work in the unit.

Test what you have studied in this unit.

Send us your feedback on this unit.

Wordlist

aid

aid (n)

financial or physical help

brochure

brochure (n)

a page of printed information, usually folded

flatmate

flatmate (n)

a person you share a flat with

plot

plot (n)

a piece or an area of land

poor

poor (adj)

with no or very little money to live

recycle

recycle (v)

to use something again and again

village

village (n)

a small town; a small community and group of houses

widow

widow (n)

a woman whose husband is dead

ladder

ladder (n)

set of steps for climbing up and down a wall or the side of a building

drill

drill (n)

machine with a pointed end for making holes in a wall