READING PLEASURES 2A. READING Befo

READING
PLEASURES 2


A. READING

Before You Read
1 Look at the photos and answer the questions.

1. What does each photo shows?
2. Who are these people? Photo 1
3. In each photo, what are they doing?


Photo 2


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2 Vocabulary Preview. Sometimes a colon (:) helps us to understand new words. Knowing the words in other side of the colon will give us the meaning of the word/words written opposite to it.

Examples

1. When my mother was still young, she loved to play different ball games: badminton,
table tennis, and volleyball.

What are the different ball games? badminton, table tennis, and volleyball.

2. She loved to dance ballroom: boogie, waltz, and jazz.

What are boogie, waltz, and jazz? ballroom dances.


Study the words before and after the colon in each sentence. Then answer the questions that follow.

1. Volunteers help sick ocean mammals: seals, sea otters, and sea lions.

What are sea otters, sea lions, and seals? ____________________

2. She cooked some wonderful foods: chopsuey, beef steaks, and mechado.

What are chopsuey, beef steaks, and mechado? _______________

3. There are some terrible diseases: TB, cancer, and AIDS.

What are some examples of diseases? ______________________


Read
3 Read the selection. Take notes and familiarize the new words. Don’t use dictionary. Try to get their meanings by your own.

Volunteers

A Most People work each day to earn a living. They spend their free time with their family, relatives and friends. Watching televisions, have parties, outdoor dates and many more. However, some people, beside their daily work, they have the hearts to spend time for the needy, the sick, the downhearted and the homeless. They serve as volunteers to help others.
B Volunteers extend their helping hands in many ways. Some visit sick and lonely people. Others look after the children without parents. While others provide home for the homeless. There are also those who take care of the babies with AIDS.

C In a summer, Andy Lipkis planted his first trees. From then on, he thought about the environment. He realized that deforestation has become a serious problem in many countries where trees were being cut down. This reality has prompted him to organize a group of people to plant trees in 1974. He named the group “Tree People.” More and more people join the group everyday, millions of trees were planted everywhere.

D A certain Ruth Brinker, who had no plan to change the world, has a friend known to be an AIDS victim. Together with her friends, Ruth helped him during his time of sufferings. Such event has lead Ruth to start her “Project Open Hand” in 1985. The group prepares food for those people with AIDS. Soon after that they cook over 1,000 meals each day. And this number keeps increasing. Ruth didn’t somehow plan to change the world but then she is making changes in the lives of other people.

E Somewhere in Northern California at the Marine Mammal Center, volunteers help sick ocean mammals like seals, sea lions, and sea otters. After sometime, sick animals become healthy and strong. Motherless baby animals grow big and healthy. And the volunteers work very hard day by day, time by time without getting any pay for the services rendered. Their “pay” is the nice feeling when seeing these animals can return to their homes – the ocean.

F Tracing back twenty or thirty years ago, most volunteers were housewives while their husband works to sustain the basic needs of the family. Presently both men and women volunteer. There are now volunteers from all walks of life. Most volunteers are not rich or famous. They enjoy the feeling as they could help people. Nowadays, facing such serious problems like AIDS and homelessness, our world needs volunteers much more than ever before.






After You Read

4 Finding the Main Ideas. Go over the selection “Volunteers” again. Each paragraph has its own letter. What is the main idea of each paragraph? Write the letters on space provided before the number.

______ 1. One man started a group to plant trees.

______ 2. One woman started a group to make meals to people with AIDS.

______ 3. Volunteers help in different ways.

______ 4. Some people give their free time to help others.

______ 5. Some people help sick ocean animals.

______ 6. Different kinds of people a

ผลลัพธ์ (ไทย) 1:

อ่าน ความสุข 2ก.อ่าน ก่อนที่คุณอ่าน ดูรูปภาพที่ 1 และตอบคำถาม 1. อะไรแต่ละภาพแสดง2. ใครคือคนเหล่านี้ ภาพที่ 1 3. ในแต่ละภาพ อะไรทำอะไร ภาพที่ 2 รูปภาพ 3 รูปภาพรูปภาพ 4 5 คำศัพท์ 2 ตัวอย่าง บางครั้งเครื่องหมายจุดคู่ (:) ช่วยให้เราเข้าใจคำศัพท์ใหม่ รู้คำในอีกด้านหนึ่งของลำไส้ใหญ่จะทำให้เราความหมายของคำ/คำที่เขียนตรงข้ามกับมัน ตัวอย่าง1. เมื่อคุณแม่เป็นยังเด็ก เธอรักในการเล่นเกมลูกบอลแตกต่างกัน: แบดมินตัน น้ำมันเชื้อเพลิง ปิงปองและวอลเลย์บอล เกมลูกบอลแตกต่างกันบ้าง แบดมินตัน เทเบิลเทนนิส และวอลเลย์บอล 2. เธอรักการเต้นรำบอลรูม: บูกี้ วอลทซ์ และแจ๊ส บูกี้ วอลทซ์ และแจ๊สมีอะไรบ้าง การเต้นบอลรูม ศึกษาคำก่อน และ หลังลำไส้ใหญ่ในแต่ละประโยค ตอบคำถามต่าง ๆ ที่ตาม1. อาสาสมัครช่วยป่วยทะเลเลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม: ซีล นากทะเล สิงโตทะเล และนากทะเล สิงโตทะเล และซีลคืออะไร ____________________2. เธอปรุงอาหารบางอย่างดี: chopsuey สเต็กเนื้อ และ mechadoChopsuey สเต็กเนื้อ และ mechado คืออะไร _______________3. มีบางโรคที่น่ากลัว: TB โรคมะเร็ง และโรคเอดส์ ตัวอย่างของโรคคืออะไร ______________________อ่าน 3 อ่านการเลือก จดบันทึก และทำความเข้าใจคำศัพท์ใหม่ ไม่ใช้พจนานุกรม มีความพยายามที่ได้รับความหมาย โดยคุณเองอาสาสมัครA Most People work each day to earn a living. They spend their free time with their family, relatives and friends. Watching televisions, have parties, outdoor dates and many more. However, some people, beside their daily work, they have the hearts to spend time for the needy, the sick, the downhearted and the homeless. They serve as volunteers to help others.B Volunteers extend their helping hands in many ways. Some visit sick and lonely people. Others look after the children without parents. While others provide home for the homeless. There are also those who take care of the babies with AIDS.C In a summer, Andy Lipkis planted his first trees. From then on, he thought about the environment. He realized that deforestation has become a serious problem in many countries where trees were being cut down. This reality has prompted him to organize a group of people to plant trees in 1974. He named the group “Tree People.” More and more people join the group everyday, millions of trees were planted everywhere.D A certain Ruth Brinker, who had no plan to change the world, has a friend known to be an AIDS victim. Together with her friends, Ruth helped him during his time of sufferings. Such event has lead Ruth to start her “Project Open Hand” in 1985. The group prepares food for those people with AIDS. Soon after that they cook over 1,000 meals each day. And this number keeps increasing. Ruth didn’t somehow plan to change the world but then she is making changes in the lives of other people.E Somewhere in Northern California at the Marine Mammal Center, volunteers help sick ocean mammals like seals, sea lions, and sea otters. After sometime, sick animals become healthy and strong. Motherless baby animals grow big and healthy. And the volunteers work very hard day by day, time by time without getting any pay for the services rendered. Their “pay” is the nice feeling when seeing these animals can return to their homes – the ocean.F Tracing back twenty or thirty years ago, most volunteers were housewives while their husband works to sustain the basic needs of the family. Presently both men and women volunteer. There are now volunteers from all walks of life. Most volunteers are not rich or famous. They enjoy the feeling as they could help people. Nowadays, facing such serious problems like AIDS and homelessness, our world needs volunteers much more than ever before.After You Read 4 Finding the Main Ideas. Go over the selection “Volunteers” again. Each paragraph has its own letter. What is the main idea of each paragraph? Write the letters on space provided before the number.______ 1. One man started a group to plant trees.______ 2. One woman started a group to make meals to people with AIDS.______ 3. Volunteers help in different ways.______ 4. Some people give their free time to help others.______ 5. Some people help sick ocean animals.______ 6. Different kinds of people a