What a great idea!

Year 7, unit 3, lesson 5.

Checking your homework.

• A.B., p.38, ex.1, part1:• 1a; • 2b;• 3c;• 4c; • 5b;• 6b; • 7b.

In addition to ex.1, p.58, S.B.Here are some of the ways you can express your happiness in English.• You can be…

- (absolutely) delighted- thrilled to bits- over the moon- really pleased- so happy

• Or you can say… - I couldn't be happier.

- That is fantastic / wonderful / great / marvellous!• When you hear good news you can say:

- What great / wonderful / fantastic news!- We've been waiting so long for this (moment).- Thank God! / Thank God for that!(British English speakers tend not to be particularly religious)

• Pronunciation tipStress the adverbs and adjectives for greater emphasis:

- I'm really pleased.- What great news!

From : http://www.english-at-home.com/speaking/saying-how-happy-you-are/

www.learnvest.com/2010/12/10-ways-to-help-others-this-holiday-season/Read the passage and fill in the gaps with the words bellow:

• Throughout the past year, LearnVest has been working to help thousands of people get their 1)_______lives in order and to maximize the money they have for themselves. That said, being frugal doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give back to the causes that matter to us. We believe that, in addition to helping others, being 2)______in charity also helps us remember what’s really important.

• If you regularly 3)______money to charity, we salute you. If you feel like your 4)_______ is too stretched to hand over a chunk of money, there are still plenty of things you can do to 5)______to the community—for free:

donate financial give back

involved budget fundraising

financial

involved

donate

budget

give back

www.learnvest.com/2010/12/10-ways-to-help-others-this-holiday-season/Match the name of the fund and its website

• Actions Speak Louder Than, Well, You Know

• Volunteering can be a painless way to give back to the community, especially if you do it with your family or a group of friends. If you aren’t sure whether you’d rather work at your local soup kitchen or build houses through Habitat for Humanity, there are lots of excellent resources to help you find the best charity match for you. Our favorites include Jumo, VolunteerMatch, and Idealist. You can find local volunteer opportunities on your phone through the Catalista app, too.

www.learnvest.com/2010/12/10-ways-to-help-others-this-holiday-season/Find synonyms to the highlighted words:

• Volunteer Virtually• Sparked is a great way to volunteer online in your spare time by helping

nonprofits meet challenges that they face, based on your interests and skills. This could mean everything from basic graphic design to research to copywriting. For example, if you have experience with social media, you might spend a short while brainstorming for ways to connect with people to help fight cancer. Similarly, download the Give Work iPhone app to help give work to Kenyan refugees and offset costs. It works when companies outsource online tasks to Kenyan refugees (like confirming that certain images are of what they say they are, or picking out spam comments on a blog). Through the app, you can spend a few minutes looking over these apps, performing quality control and training the Kenyan staff, enabling companies to keep outsourcing these tasks to provide work to these refugees.

www.learnvest.com/2010/12/10-ways-to-help-others-this-holiday-season/Explain the meaning of highlighted word combinations:

• Double Your Donation• Get free money for your charitable donations through work—many

corporations will match their employees’ donations up to 100%, which means double the impact. If your firm offers this, we encourage you to think about taking advantage of it, since it’s a unique opportunity to make your money go twice as far for a cause you believe in. To find out if your firm participates, try searching your internal company website and looking for tabs with names like “corporate responsibility,” “volunteering,” or “community affairs.” You can also try entering your company’s name into Google with the word “Foundation” after it to see whether your company has its own charitable foundation. If nothing else, try contacting human resources to see if they can help you track down special charitable programs.

Read slides 4, 5, 6, 7 once more and say if you like or dislike these ideas. Explain why.

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Name Ideas for a Charity Organizationby Arnold Anderson, Demand Media

Charities are established help people in need. If you are starting a charity organization, the naming process is an important step to creating your charity. Not only should you create a name that helps identify your charity, but you also should take precautions to avoid using a name that is similar to other charities to avoid confusion among donors.

How do you like A.Anderson’s ideas?

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Name Ideas for a Charity Organizationby Arnold Anderson, Demand Media

Beneficiaries To help people understand who your charity is

designed to help, include the beneficiaries of your services in the name. Words and phrases such as "children," "homeless," "war veterans," "veterans' families," "animal," "domestic abuse" and "illiterate" will help potential donors to better understand to whom their money will go.

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Name Ideas for a Charity Organizationby Arnold Anderson, Demand Media

Geography For a children's charity that only works within the United

States, you could include the phrase "United States Children's Fund" or "American Child Services" in your charity name. Organizations that work all over the world can include words such as "international," "worldwide" and "global" in their name. An American-based charity that works in Africa can help people better understand the charity's mission by including the word "African" in the name. The same can be said for American charities that work in Europe, South America or any other part of the world.

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Name Ideas for a Charity Organizationby Arnold Anderson, Demand Media

Intent Sometimes a charity has a very specific

function that can be included in the name. For example, a charity that works in the United States to help children orphaned by natural could be called something as specific as "Americans Orphaned by Natural Disasters Fund."

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Verification Be sure that the names you are considering are not

taken. Use the IRS website to search for organizations that have nonprofit status. The link for searching the IRS website is found in the resources section below. This will help you to make sure you do not choose the name of an organization that is already operating. Do a general Internet search on the names you are considering to make sure they are not similar to a charity that has been accused of fraud.

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Acronym An acronym can make your charity name memorable. For

example, the charity CARE is best known for its work with poverty-stricken people all over the world. When CARE started, the name was an acronym for "Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe". It was an organization set up to send supplies to American troops fighting in Europe in World War II. The packages sent to the troops by the organization became the well-known CARE packages. Creating an acronym that symbolizes the work your charity does and is easy for people to remember can help make your charity memorable to donors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVIWe Are the World

• Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) "We Are The World 25 For Haiti", in which Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie serve as executive producers and producers, was created in collaboration with executive producers Wyclef Jean, Randy Phillips and Peter Tortorici; producers Humberto Gattica and RedOne; and co-producers Rickey Minor, Mervyn Warren and Patti Austin to benefit the Haitian earthquake relief efforts and the rebuilding of Haiti.

Academy Award-winning writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), whose own personal efforts as well as those of Artists for Peace and Justice have already saved countless lives in Haiti, filmed the private recording session to create the accompanying video and behind-the-scenes production, and serves as Film Director and as an Executive Producer with Jones, Richie, Jean, Phillips and Tortorici.

The 25th Anniversary recording features over 80 artists and performers. The recording of We Are The World 25 For Haiti embodied the same enthusiasm, sense of purpose and generosity as the original recording 25 years ago. Every one of the artists who participated, regardless of genre or generation, walked into the room with their hearts and souls completely open to coming together to help the people of Haiti.

• Watch, listen and sing together.