1. Answer the questions  What can you learn from the song?  What do you think of helping people?  What can we do to help others?

2. What can we do to help people? We can donate some money to charity.

3. What can we do to help people? We can visit sick children in the hospital.

4. What can we do to help people? We can help children with their school work

5. What can we do to help people? We can do some volunteer work.

6. I ’ ll send you a photo of Lucky Reading Unit8

7. Free talk: 1.Do you like dogs? Why? 2. What can dogs help the disabled do ?

8. Answer the questions according to the article.  What is “Animal Helpers” ? It’s an organizaton set up to help disabled people  What’s wrong with Liz Smith ? She can’t use her arms or legs well.  Who has filled Liz’s life with pleasure? A dog named Lucky.  What does Lucky do for Liz Smith ? It can understand many English words and fetch things for her.

9. The main idea of the article Liz Smith is a disabled person,she can’t use arms or legs well.It’s difficult for her to walk,answer the telephone,carry things,open or shut doors and so on.Luckily,a friend of hers helped her get a dog named Luckly from “Animal Helpers”which is an organization set up to help disabled people..It is very friendly and clever,it can understand many English words and fetch things for Liz Smith.The dog has filled her life With pleasure.

10. 1.I’d like to thank you for sending money to “Animal Helpers”, an organization set up to help disabled people. “Animal Helpers” 动物助手, 一个帮助残疾人而建 立的组织. Thank sb for… 为 …… 而感谢某人. e.g. Thank you for your flowers to me. Set up… 引导的是一个省去关系代词 that 的定语从 句.. e.g. Thomas has a lab set up himself. Language points

11. 2. Being blind, deaf, unable to walk,or use your hands easily is something that most people cannot imagine. 此句中 “Being…” 是动名词做主语. 谓语 动词用单数. “….that most people cannot imagine” 是 定语从句, 修饰 something.

12. 3.Then one day last year, a friend of mine said that she would like to help me out. Help sb. out 意为 “ 使某人脱离困境 ” 可分 开使用. e.g. Nobody helped me out when I lost my job.

13. 4.You see, I’m only able to have a “dog-helper” because of your kind donation! 此句中的 be able to 意为 “ 能够做 …… 的事 ”, 可用 can 替换, 主语为物时一般都使用 can, can 没有将 来时和完成时, 也不能用于其他助动词后面, 所以 常用 be able to do 来替换. Because of 是介词短语, 表原因, 后面接名词或代词 宾语.because 是连词, 词后常接从句.

14. 5.fill …with…, “ 用 …… 把 …… 填满 ” e.g Fill (in) the blanks with the right prepositions. I have filled the glass with tea. Please help yourself. ▲ be full of = be filled with

15. .6 carry, take, fetch, bring carry =hold sth. and move with it “ 携带, 拿, 运载 ”( 不表 明运动方向 ) take =carry to another place or go with it “ 带走带领 ” （带着离去） bring=come carrying sth. or with sb. “ 拿来，带来 ” fetch=go and get from another place and bring back “ 去取（拿）来 ” （往返）

16. Homewrk  Write an article about Liz Smith and Lucky With about 100 words.  Do exercises Part reading in your workbook.

17. Thank you !