Unit 4 Sharing Reading Tasks
Pre-reading activities
Task I If you are to write a letter to your parents telling them about your school life, what will you cover in your letter
Task II Which subject do you like best Why
Task III If you are asked to help the students in the remote villages, what can you do for them
While-reading activities
Task I Read the first 3 paragraphs and fill in the blanks.
Task II Read Paragraphs 4-9 and fill in the blanks in the chart, trying to understand how Jo felt during her visit to the village.
Task III Read the text and try to find the answers to each of the following questions.
Questions Answers
1. What does the school look like A. Most of them will go back to their village.
2. Why is science the most difficult subject to teach B. It is a bush school.
3. Why does Jo think that it is not important for the students to learn Chemistry C. Excited.
4. Why did Jo say the village was remote D. Fresh grass.
5. How did Tombe’s mother feel when she saw Jo E. The students have never done any experiment.
6. What was used to make the platform to be slept on F. They were used to cook the food.
7. What did Jo saw in the hut G. They walked for two and half hours to get there.
8. Why did they put the hot stones in the drum H. One broom, tin plates, cups and jars.
9. Why couldn’t Jo join in the talking I. They were believed to attract evil spirits.
10. Why did the people throw away the leftovers J. She did not know the local language.
Task IV Put the phrases into the correct categories.
A. classrooms made of bambooB. up a mountain to a ridgeC. an empty oil drumD. sniffed the foodE. the mixtureF. no windowsG. dark inside H. fresh grassI. sitting around the fireJ. near the doorwayK. a muddy trackL. chemistry experimentM. most challenging subjectN. down a steep path to the valley below
1. Describing the school: ____________________
2. Describing the class: ____________________
3. Describing the village: ____________________
4. Describing the house: ____________________
5. Describing the cooking: ____________________
Post-reading activities
Task I Write a summary of the text. Then try to retell the story to your partners.
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Task II Imagine you are a reporter and that your partner is Jo. Make an interview about Jo’s experience in the high school in Papua New Guinea.
Task III Rewrite Paragraphs 4-8 of the text from the point of view of Tombe, describing what you saw about Jo in the village.
Task IV Discussion. Jo thought the boys should not learn Chemistry. What is your opinion
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Pre-reading activities
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While-reading activities
Task I 1. bush 2. muddy 3. water 4. bubbling
Task II 1. long 2. family 3. grass 4. doorway 5. platform 6. stones 7. vegetables 8. upside down 9. dry out 10. goodbyes 11. aching 12. bed
Task III 1-B 2-E 3-A 4-G 5-C 6-D 7-H 8-F 9-J 10-I
Task IV 1. A, K 2. E, L, M 3. B, N 4. F, G, H, J 5. C, D, I
Post-reading activities
Task I
Dear Rosemary,
I teach in a bush school made of bamboo with a grass roof. It takes me only a few minutes to get there but some of the boys I teach have to walk for up to two hours. There’s no electricity, water or books, so I need to be imaginative. One day another teacher and I walked over a mountain with fantastic views to visit one of the boys’ villages. He and his family lived in a round bamboo hut with no windows. After heating stones on a fire, his father put them in an empty oil drum. Then he filled the drum with sweet potatoes and greens, covered it with banana leaves and left the food to steam. It was delicious. We left the village the next morning, feeling so privileged to have spent a day with the boy’s family.
Love,
Jo
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Task III 略
Task IV略