1. Have the beam projector ready to show the videos suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section.

2. Ask students if they know of any organizations that need volunteers and what kind of work they would be doing if they accepted to volunteer.

3. Invite students to make a quick list of 2 or 3 benefits of volunteering and share it with the class.

4. Tell students this is a British video. Try to take cultural advantage of the video when students notice this is not American English but British English.

5. Play the video and set the scene: a student who is learning the benefits of volunteering.

6. Invite students to watch the video and identify why these students would volunteer, why a senior citizen with an Ipad is in the video, etc.

7. Pause the video several times and provoke conversation and discussion.

8. Invite the class to give their opinion and write a paragraph in pairs: What are the benefits of volunteering? If students wrote at the beginning of the session the 2 or 3 benefits of volunteering, ask students to recycle that information but combining it with another partner’s list and present it to the class.

9. Tell students this girl, Carmen, prepared a video to give students some recommendations on volunteering since she has volunteered some time.

10. Invite students to work in pairs and make a list of recommendations (3 at least) this girl gives.

11. It may be necessary you pause the video and make comments and /or paraphrase since the accent of the girl may not be as expected for your class.

12. Ask students to show the list of recommendations Carmen gave to another pair and compare their information.

13. Invite 2 pairs of students to read the class the recommendation they put together as a group and discuss it with the class.

14. You may also consider students record a short video reading the recommendations they wrote with a partner. If so, choose some volunteers, use your cellular phone and record them.

Another recommendation is that you do this activity right after the video or consider it for a final evaluation of the period.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section, and download, print and make photocopies for students of the file.

2. Ask students if they know of some volunteering in their communities, colonias or church they go to.

3. Ask students if anybody in their families has ever done community service, ie. the most popular one is probably at church (not matter what religion your students have)

4. Tell the class this is a clip from a TV show where a teacher is interviewed about the volunteering programs in her community and how much teens can help.

5. Invite students to work in pairs and write three questions about what they expect to hear in this interview and two more questions they would like to ask the teacher as if they were the presenters.

6. Monitor the activity and help with grammar and vocabulary as needed.

7. Invite students to read their questions to other pairs and see if they are the same or different.

8. Play the video and pause it several times so students can confirm if their questions were asked.

9. Tell students to read the questions they would like to ask the teacher in the show and say if they were asked or not.

10 Invite some volunteers to role-play the interview and use their questions.

11. Distribute the worksheet and tell students to read the words to work with.

12. Help with vocabulary as needed and invite students to find the words.

13. When students have finished, ask them to take 3 words from that list and work in pairs.

14. Ask students to take turns and say a sentence to each one about volunteering.

15. Encourage students to be as creative as possible, creating sentences and practicing the vocabulary.

16. Ask students to write their sentences on strips of paper and if time allows, put them in a plastic bag or container and have volunteers take turns and draw one.

17. Invite the rest of the class to listen to the answers students give and make comments about them.

1.Have the beam projector ready to show the video suggested activities in  the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and download the file to make copies for students of the activity suggested for this session as well,

2. Ask students what they know about the Red Cross.

3. Ask students if they’ve ever visited people in a hospital as volunteers.

4. Mention that the Red Cross helps communities in different ways under different projects, ask if they know of any.

5. Play the video and set the scene, a young girl who volunteers and is the head of this particular project.

6. Make several pauses for students to check on comprehension, paraphrase and clear up concepts and ideas.

7. When the video is finished, ask students to work in pairs and think of how they could help the Red Cross here in their community. That is, what type of volunteering they could do and help.

8. Encourage them to make a list of 3 different things to help this institution.

9. Invite volunteers to share their lists with the class and if there are similar activities, invite them to sit together and talk about those.

10. Distribute the activity and read with students the paragraph about the origins of the Red Cross.

11. Tell students there are 24 words in this word search and ask them to try to find as many in 5 minutes, for example.

12. When time is up, ask students at random what words they found and read them so the rest of the class can compare and include them in their word search.

13. If you see they need help, dictate or show the second page which has the 24 words to be searched for and ask them to find them.

14. The students who finish first can raise their hand and the rest of the class stops so they can check answers and complete the words they missed.