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Unit 8 I’ll help clean up the city parks. Ⅰ. Analysis of the Teaching Material 1. Status and Function In this unit, students learn to express what kind of volunteer work they would like to do. And they will know much about the volunteers and volunteer work. And they will learn to choose a volunteer job based on their own skills. Students will understand to do some volunteer work is good for both themselves and the others. All the students will be interested in the volunteers and volunteer work and they will make great progress in English after learning this unit. (1) The first period mainly provides some new vocabulary to the students, especially some phrasal verbs. Most new vocabulary and phrasal verbs are very useful on helping the children express what they would like to do and what they could do. And the first period gives the children lots of practice in writing, listening and speaking with the target language. (2)The activities in the second period provide the students much more listening practice and oral practice using the target language. And the students will get chances to practice the phrasal verbs by listening and speaking. All these will help much in improving the students’ English. (3) In the third period, students will read an article on volunteers. They will practice getting detailed information from an article. And they will do some writing and oral practice as well. Students can improve their reading skill and know more about the volunteers. (4) The fourth period provides much practice on understanding and using the new phrasal verbs. It also gives much more listening and speaking practice. Students will enjoy the story of Jimmy and make much progress in listening. (5) The fifth period will train the students how to make notes based on an article. It also provides some practice on phrasal verbs. Students can do much speaking practice through groupwork as well. (6)The sixth period is designed to train the students’ writing skill. It also provides s