Repairing the road

Playing with street children

Planting vegetables

•How can we show your gratitude?

•How can you respond to thanks?

Vocabulary:

• Be obliged [ə'blɑidʒd] to s/o for sth

= Grateful to s/o for sth

• delighted [di'laitid] ( a )=pleasant & satisfied

Expressing Gratitude and

Responding to Thanks

Expressions of Gratitude

•Thank you very much for…•I’m very much obliged to you for…•It is extremely good of you to…•I’m really grateful to you.

Responding toThanks

•(It’s) my pleasure.•Delighted I was able to help.•It was the least we could do.•You’re welcome.

Work in pairs. Find more expressions used to express gratitude and to respond.

a. A student helps an old man to cross the street

b. On Teacher’s Day, students give flowers to their teachers.

c. A boy hands in a purse caught in the street at police station.

2. Work in groups. Take turns expressing gratitude and responding to thanks. You may use the suggested expressions above and the situations below.

Building the bridge

Keeping our city

tidy

Showing

games to

children

3. Work in pairs. Think of some situations where you have to thank people and the responses you have to give when people thank you.

•Cooking meals free for the poor.•Looking after homeless children.•Offering your place to old people,

the handicapped or pregnant women.

•Planting trees in your schoolyard.

Exercises

1. Circle the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from that of the others on the same line. Then say all the words.

A. repairB. damage C. family D. task A. Volunteer B. conduct C. adult D. such

A. Different B. literacy C. foreign D. remedial

divide B. beginner C. environment

D. diagram

A. experience B. rebuild C. evening D. extremely

2. Circle the word that has a stress pattern from that of the others on the same line. Then say all the words.• A. gratitude B. delightful C. responding D. expression• A. repairing B. volunteer C. remedial D. rebuilding

• A. organize B. attendant C. different D. teenager• A. beginner B. position C. recycling D. evening• A. achievement B. Conducting

C. Vietnamese D. remedial

3. Rearrange the sentences to make a meaningful dialogue. Then practice speaking it.

1. About five days more.2. We’re really grateful for your

achievements in here. The children have behaved better since the day you came.

3. It’s very kind of you to say so. It has been the least we could do to improve the life of the villagers.

4. When will you finish your working trip in this village?

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