课件42张PPT。Give roses to others and the lasting fragrance will remain in your hand.
Unit 4
Sharingsharing徐本禹濮存昕Mother Teresa
特蕾莎修女Norman Bethune 白求恩VolunteerThe definition of VolunteerPeople who help others in their community or outside their community would be called volunteers. However, they would not be called volunteers if they help their parents, other relatives or friends. There are many volunteers working in different mountainous areas or developing countries, among which Papua New Guinea (PNG) (巴布亚新几内亚)is one. What do you know about Papua New Guinea?Independent State of Papua New Guinea 巴布亚新几内亚独立国 Do you know where PNG is?Pre-reading巴布亚新几内亚国旗和国徽 (极乐鸟 ) 巴布亚在马来语中意为“卷发人”。
16世纪中叶,葡萄牙人来到该岛时,见当地
居民和自然景观很像非洲的几内亚,故称之
为新几内亚。 PNG’s paper currency Jo was a volunteer teacher who worked in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for two years. Look at the photos taken by Jo and answer the questions.1. What kind of students were in Jo’s class?Teenage boys. They are poorly dressed.2. Describe the classrooms? The classrooms are small. They are made of wood and bamboo and have grass roofs. So it is called a bush school.4.View of the village from the ridge 山脊3.What can you say about the village?The village is very small. It is at the bottom of a valley. It has steep paths all around it.567810 Village huts9 Tombe with his grandfather who’s digging up peanuts4. What can you say about life in the village?★The village huts are small. They are made of wood and bamboo and have grass roofs.
★Meals are prepared and cooked outside. ★One of the crops grown is peanuts. The tool used for this crop is a digging stick.
★There is a woman carrying a naked baby on her shoulders. She is also carrying a heavy-looking bag. She has bare feet.ScanningDivide it into four parts, and summarize what each part is about. Opening of the letter and introduction to what will be talked about in the passage.Part 1 (Paragraph 1) : The school where Jo worked and Jo’s work at school.
Jo and Jenny visited Tombe’s home in the village.
Closing of the letter.Part 2(Paragraph 2-3):Part 3 (Paragraph 4-8):Part 4 (Paragraph 9): 1. _______ is a young Australian women.
2. _________ was dying to hear all about Jo’s life in Papua New Guinea.
3. _________ walked a long way to get to the school.
4. ____ didn’t have any textbooks.
5. _______________ became a lot more imaginative when teaching.JoRosemaryThe boysThe boys and Jo JoFill in the blanks.Who did what?6. _________ started jumping out the windows during a chemistry experiment.
7. _____________ visited a village that was the home of one of the boys, Tombe.
8. _______ started crying “ieee ieee” to welcome them.
9. _________ led us to a low bamboo hut.
10. _________ was going to share the platform with Jenny and Jo.
11. ____________ softly talked to each other in their language Jo didn’t understand. The boys Jenny and Jo Kiak Mucap Kiak Tombe’s family1.Why did Jo send Rosemary some photos?
2. Why the high school was called a bush school?
3. Were the boys and villagers friendly to Jo? How do you know?It’s difficult for Rosemary to imagine how life was hard / different in Jo’s description.The classroom was made from bamboo and the roofs were made from grass.Lots of “good mornings”; cry “ieee ieee”; shake hands.Skimming4. Why was Science the most challenging subject for Jo?
5. Why did the boys start jumping out the window?
6. Why should it take Jo and Jenny two and a half hours to get to the village? They had to climb up a mountain to a ridge first and then down a steep path to the valley.There was no equipment.The boy never came across something like bubbling mixture. The text is _______ written by a young volunteer Jo who teaches in a(n) ____school in PNG. She writes about her experiences as a teacher and her_______ to a student’s village.Summaryhighvisita letter1. The purpose that the author wrote the letter is that ___.
she wanted to tell Rosemary her
teaching life in the high school.
B. she wanted to tell Rosemary her learning life in the high school.
C. she wanted to tell Rosemary that she couldn’t get any money by teaching the poor students
D. she wanted to tell Rosemary how happy she was in the small village.AChoose the best answer.2. In a chemistry experiment the boys jumped out of the windows because they _____.
A. were frightened by the bubbling mixture
B. couldn’t stand the terrible smell of the mixture
C. didn’t like doing chemistry experiments
D. knew chemistry was not relevant to themA3. Which of the following is TRUE about Jo’s attitude?
A. She is sure that all the boys will go to college in the future.
B. She believes that chemistry is very useful to the boys.
C. She is wondering if she can make any difference to the boys’ lives.
D. She doesn’t like the simple life in the mountain village.C4. Why does Jo wonder how relevant chemistry is to the kids?
A. Because she thinks chemistry is too difficult to learn.
B. Because she thinks chemistry may make little difference to the kids’ life.
C. Because the kids there hardly come across anything of chemistry.
D. Because she thinks chemistry useless.B5. By writing “The only possessions that I could see were…”, the author wants to tell us ____.
A. Tombe’s family were kind-hearted
B. Tombe’s family were guest-lovers
C. Tombe’s family only used simple things
D. Tombe’s family were too poorD6. Why did Tombe throw out the tin can?
A. Because he believed the can attracted
evil spirits.
B. Because he believed any leftovers
attracted evil spirits.
C. Because he believed the can has no use
at all.
D. Because he believed the grill attracted
evil spirits.B7. How did Jo feel after the visit to
Tombe’s family?
A. Happy B. Sad
C. Worried D. UpsetAPost-reading Guess the reasons for the facts according to the reading passage.1. The boys jumped out of the windows in the science lesson.Because they were frightened; they had never seen anything like this before.2. Jo wondered how relevant chemistry was to the boys.Because most of them would live all their lives as farmers.3. Tombe’s mother cried “ieee ieee” when she sew Jo.It was her way to welcome visitors to the village and she drew everyone’s attention to their arrival.4. There were no windows in Mukap’s hut.Perhaps it’s because that was a man’s house.5. The tin can was standing upside down on the grill.The tin can was used to dry out the leftover food, which might attract evil spirits, so the tin can was thrown out of the hut.DiscussionNow we have two topics to discuss:
Why do you think Jo became a
volunteer in PNG? Give as many
possible reasons as you can. Would
like to work as a volunteer in a poor
area? Why?A sample of the discussions:A: I’d like to go to a school described in the letter because it sounds more interesting than my school.
B: But what about going to university? You’d need a better school with more facilities for that, wouldn’t you?C: Yes, I suppose you’d need some textbooks. It must be hard to learn all the right things without a textbook.
D: True. It’d be difficult to pass the exams to get into college.
B: And you’d have to do so much walking every morning and evening!A: But think how fit you’d be!
D: And there’d be no time for homework after all that walking! You’d only have time to eat and go to bed.
C: Yes, you’re right. It sounds a hard life but in a different way from ours.
A: So would you like to go to this school?
B, C and D: No, thank you!Homework 1. Finish Exercise 3 on Page 31.
2. Read the passage again after class and find all the attributive clauses in it.
3. Recite the key sentences in the text.
4. Preparations: Learning about Language on Page 32.