Unit 4 Sharing reading

课件53张PPT。ReadingWarming-upEarthquake in WenchuanVolunteerThe 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.What do the volunteers usually do to help other people?A possible version : The volunteers make their greatest efforts to help others. For example, they collect money for the Hope project to help poor children afford their schooling; they go to serve old people in the community; they join “1help1” project to visit elderly people who live alone and help with shopping, do jobs in the house, etc.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。 Look at the photos and answer the questions.1. What kind of student was in Jo’s class? Secondary school children from a developing country. We know this because there are no walls to the classroom so the climate must be hot. The desks are close together but there does not appear to be enough desks for each child. The students are poorly dressed.2. Describe the classrooms? The classrooms are made with wooden poles and have bamboo walls and grass roofs (except for the new science lab which has a metal roof). The floor has bamboo matting on it. The walls do not reach the roofs (except the walls of the science lab). There is no glass in the windows.3. What similarities and differences can you find between Jo’s classroom and yours?
1 There are desks.
2 There are both boys and girls in the classroom.
3 There is no spare space in the classroom.
4 There is a separate science laboratory.1 Some of the walls are missing.
2 There is a pole holding up the roof in the middle of the room.
3 There is no school uniform.
4 The students have no textbooks.
5 There is no glass in the windows.
6. The students have no repair the classroom themselves.View of the village from the ridge 山脊 doorwayvillage hut stick out4. What can you say about the village?
The village was a very small. It is by a river at the bottom of a valley. It has steep slopes all around it.
5. What can you say about life in the village?
The village huts are small. They have no windows. 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. New words and expressions1. fortnight two weeks
2. relevant 　adj. 有关的
3. adjust v. 整理,调整,适应
4. doorway n. 门口
5. platform n. 平台; 讲台
6. grill n. 烤架; 大平底锅
7. leftover n. 剩余物; 剩饭
8. privilege n. 特权, 优惠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.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 slope to the valley.There was no equipment.The boy never came across something like bubbling mixture. Read the passage carefully to complete the tables below!Reading carefullyEquippedNot equippedTable 1 (about the school)Go to college or workReturn to the villagesYesYesNoNoManyFewConclusion: electricity or waterbushbambooTable 2 (about the life in the village)sticking outInsideplatformfireplacea couple oflaidcovered1. 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.