(共24张PPT)
What’s your understanding of sharing?
Sharing means to have, use, pay,
or take part in something with others
among a group rather than singly.
Give roses to others and the lasting fragrance will remain in your hand.
与人玫瑰,
手留余香。
People who help others willingly without being paid would be called volunteers. However, they would not be called volunteers if they help their parents, other relatives or friends.
What is a volunteer?
Rosemary, a friend of Jo in Australia
is dying to know all about Jo’s life at
Papua New Guinea.
Jo, a young Australian woman of
Australian Volunteers International,
has worked as a volunteer teacher in
Papua New Guinea for two years.
want to do something so much that you do not want to wait
1 My class
2 Students putting new
grass on classroom roofs
3 Building a new
science lab
4 View of the village
from the ridge
5 Some of Tombe’s
family with Mukap
on the left
6 Kiak preparing
vegetables
7 Tombe’s family and
Jenny waiting for the
meal to cook
8 A woman and baby
we saw on the way home
9 Tombe with his
grandfather who’s
digging up peanuts
10 Village huts
What’s the main idea of the text?
Jo wrote a letter to her friend Rosemary to talk about her experience as a volunteer teacher in Papua New Guinea.
Reading Comprehension
Try to divide the letter into four parts, and summarize what each part is about.
Para____ :
Para____ -- Para___ :
Para____ -- Para____ :
Para____ :
Introducing the topic — Jo’s life in PNG.
Jo’s school and her teaching work.
Jo’s visit to Tombe’s home in the village.
End of the letter.
1
2
3
4
8
9
The classrooms are made of bricks and the
roofs of grass.
2. It always takes the boys only a few minutes to
get to the school.
3. Science is the most challenging subject for Jo.
4. When Jo and Jenny arrived at the village, they
shook hands with all the villagers.
5. Tombe threw out the tin can because it’s very
dirty.
F
F
T
T
F
True or false
l. Why does Jo call the school where she
teaches a bush school?
A. Because the school was built in a bush.
B. Because the classrooms are made of
bamboo and the roofs of grass.
C. Because there is nothing but bush
around the school.
D. Because students in that school use
"bush" as their names.
Reading Comprehension
2. Which of the following statements is true?
A. There is no electricity but enough
water at school.
B. I can become used to the school's
condition easily.
C. The students there often do chemistry
experiments.
D. We have neither textbooks nor any
experiment equipment.
3. The condition of Jo’s school is _____.
A. normal
B. first class
C. simple and rough
4. The attitude of Tombe’s family
towards Jo and Jenny’s visit is ______.
A. indifferent
B. enthusiastic
C. dislike
5. Which of the following sentences is
wrong about Mukap's house?
A. There were no windows and the
doorway was just big enough to get
through.
B. The hut was dark inside so it took
time for our eyes to adjust.
C. Fresh grass had been laid on the floor
but there was an old platform.
D. There was a fireplace in the centre of
the hut near the doorway.
1. _________ walked a long way to get to the school.
2. _________________ didn’t have any textbooks.
3. ________ became a lot more imaginative when
teaching.
4. ____________ started jumping out the windows
during a chemistry experiment.
The boys
The boys and Jo
Jo
The boys
Complete the sentences with the characters
mentioned in the letter:
Careful reading
5. _____________ visited a village that was the
home of one of the boys, Tombe.
6. _________ started crying “ieee ieee” to welcome
them.
7. _________ led us to a low bamboo hut.
8. ______________ softly talked to each other in
their language Jo didn’t understand.
Jenny and Jo
Kiak
Mucap
Tombe’s family
Discussion:
If you have a chance,will you be willing to be a volunteer in poor areas?
If everybody offers a little love, the world
will become more beautiful.
Share your happiness with others,
happiness doubles.
Share your sadness with others,
sadness halves.
Share your love with others,
love spreads.