Make a difference!

Your take on it make a difference • make friends make sb feel good • make sb smile • make sb happy

1 Pairwork Why do people volunteer? Use these expressions to help you.

2 Complete the sentences from the video with the correct form of the expressions from exercise 1. More than one answer is possible.

1 Josh Coombes wants to a small to people’s lives.

2 Helping others is good for the community and you too.

3 Volunteering lets Josh and Jade help people, and also meet people, and

4 Speaking to people, asking them about their day, will people

5 Helping people has Josh .

3 Watch the video and answer the questions.

1 What is Josh’s job and how does he volunteer?

2 What’s the name of Josh’s project and when did he start it?

3 How does he share his volunteer work on social media?

4 What is Jade’s job and how does she volunteer?

5 What is a big part of Josh and Jade’s work?

6 What is Josh’s advice about helping people?

4 Watch the video again and match the two halves of the sentences.

1 Josh volunteers

2 He wants to show people that helping others

3 Volunteering lets Josh and Jade

4 Even conversations can make

5 Just stop and just see

6 You don’t have to solve

7 It’s really about

8 It’s about what you a n a positive difference to someone’s day. b n connecting with people. c n every one of their problems. d n get in return. e n help people. f n his time and skills. g n how someone’s doing. h n is good for the community.

Life Skills: Respect Others

● Consider other people’s needs and preferences afraid • angry • ashamed • embarrassed • emotional inferior • irritated • nervous • pleased • relieved shocked • surprised

5 Pairwork Think of a situation when someone has tried to help you. What did they do? How did it make you feel? Were you happy they tried to help you? Use these words and expressions to tell your partner about it.

A teacher once offered to help me catch up with my schoolwork. At first I felt like I was inferior to the other students and a bit embarrassed, but then I felt pleased because…

6 At the end of the video the narrator asks: ‘Do you think there is something you could give to your community?’ Discuss your ideas in small groups. In your discussion, consider:

● what people in your community might need

● what you can do to help meet this need

● the best way of doing this, while respecting the people you are helping

● how you felt when somebody helped you (what you liked/didn’t like)

● what you could get/learn from this experience

7 Present your ideas to the rest of the class. We are going to volunteer as shoppers for vulnerable people in our community…

8 Now vote for the one you like best and explain why. Remember that it should consider other people’s needs and preferences.