Unit 7 International charities
Reading (I)
采访者
失明
主要地,大部分地
案例,病例
治愈
医学的,医疗的
治疗
病人
买得起,能做
interviewer n.
blindness n.
mostly adv.
case n.
cure vt.
medical adj.
treatment n.
patient n.
afford vt.
New words
去看病
在飞机(船,火车)上
做手术
自豪的,骄傲的
读者
医学,药
发展,加强
治疗,处理
继续开展,继续下去
go to hospital
go board
operate vi.
proud adj.
reader n.
medicine n.
develop v.
treat vt.
carry on
a flying eye hospital
(空中眼科医院)
a teaching centre
(教学中心)
a special plane
It works to help those people with blindness or other eye problems in poor areas.
an international charity
ORBIS
(奥比斯)
operate on patients
= do operations on patients
treat (治疗), cure (治愈) or
prevent (预防) blindness
see again
medical treatment
volunteer doctors
local doctors and nurses
are invited on board to learn about eye operations
teach them new skills
By training local doctors and nurses,ORBIS doctors hope to help more people.
1. blindness
2. cure
3. patient
4. afford
5. on board
6. operate
cut a person’s body open to take out or repair a part
in or on a plane, ship, train, etc.
make an illness go away
have enough money to pay for something
a person who is ill, especially in hospital
the condition of being unable to see
f
c
e
d
b
a
About 450 million people have heart problems.
All of the cases of blindness can not be cured or prevented.
ORBIS doctors do operations on the plane.
All doctors and nurses go to the plane to learn about eye operations.
Dr Ma says he operated on 150 patients during his last visit.
People can help by sending donations to ORBIS.
285
80%
Local
Read and Answer
eye
can
Skimming
1. (Line 1-6)
something about blindness
2. (Line 7-15)
something about ORBIS
3. (Line 16-20)
Dr Ma’s work and his feeling
4. (Line 21-26)
Dr Ma’s hope
Can you divide the passage?
1. Something about blindness
_______________around the world are blind or have other eye problems,mostly in _____areas.
285 million people
poor
The good news is that ___________________
___________________________________
80 per cent of the cases
can be prevented or cured.
The bad news is that_____________________
_____________________________
many people don’t have
enough money for medical treatment.
does _____________
on the plane
helps people _______
invites local __________
________ on board
teaches them _________
ORBIS, a charity
uses its _________________ to visit poor areas
treats people with ______________
2. The work of ORBIS
doctors and nurses
eye operations
see again
new skills
Flying Eye Hospital
eye problems
① 150 patients _____ _______ ____ by him
during his last visit.
② Although(尽管) his work is tiring, he still feels
______ of it.
③ He thinks it’s an ________ job for him to help
his patients ____ again and make their lives
_____ .
were operated on
proud
important
3. Dr Ma’s work and his feeling
see
better
4. Dr Ma’s hope
Many more people in poor areas
Dr Ma thinks that most eye problems and diseases
Many blind people do not get any treatment
4. The ORBIS plane is used as
5. One hundred and fifty patients
6. More money is needed
were operated on during Dr Ma’s last visit.
b. a hospital and a treating centre.
c. because they have no money to go to hospital.
d. to carry on with
the work.
e. have eye problems.
f. can be prevented or cured.
e
a
f
c
d
b
afford board cure medicine patient proud support train
Amy is writing an article about ORBIS for the school newsletter. Help her complete it with the correct forms of the words in the box.
The ORBIS plane travels all around the world and helps people with eye problems in poor areas. Most of the people there cannot (1)_______ to go to hospital, so ORBIS doctors go to them. Operations are done to help people with eye problems see again. The (2)_________ do not have to pay because ORBIS is a charity.
afford
patients
Local doctors and nurses are also invited on (3)_______ to learn new skills. By (4)________ them, ORBIS doctors hope to help more people.
Dr Ma is a doctor on the ORBIS plane. He feels (5)_______ to help people see again. Dr Ma thinks that modern (6)_________ is developing quickly and now most eye problems can be treated and (7)_______, but more money is needed to (8)_________ their work.
training
proud
medicine
cured
support
board
ORBIS is an i__________ c______ that helps b____ people. Most blindness can be p________ or c_____ . However, many people can’t a______to go to hospital. ORBIS uses a f____ eye hospital to visit p____ areas. On the plane, volunteer doctors do operations ____ patients. They also teach local doctors and nurses new s______.The local doctors and nurses are i______ on b____ to learn about eye o_________.
nternational
harity
lind
ured
revented
fford
lying
oor
Amy’s diary
Modern medicine is d________ quickly and now most eye problems and diseases can be t______ and cured. But more money is n_____ to c____ on with their work. So people should s______ their work.
nvited
perations
on
kills
oard
eveloping
reated
eeded
arry
upport
翻译:
1.我们每个人都应该尽力帮助那些需要帮助的人。
2.昨天,我采访了周杰伦。
3.这栋楼也被用作教学中心。
4.他的家境如此穷困以至于他上不起学。
5.我们需要的是知识和技术来继续我们的工作。
用所给单词的适当情况填空。
1.Can you tell us something about______________ (blind).
2.More money ____________(need ) for charity.
3.Our teacher told us to try our best _________ (help )others.
4.Do all the people have enough money for medical ____________ (treat)?
5.We hope people will support our work by _________(send ) money to Project Hope.
6.He used to _______(work)in a local hospital. But now, he is used to _____________(operate )on the plane.
7. The knife is used to______ (cut) things.
blindness
is needed
to help
treatment
sending
work
operating
cut
Homework
1. Revise the interview and finish off all
the exercises.
2. Find out some useful phrases.
3. Visit the websites http://www.orbis.org/ to
know more about ORBIS
discussion
As the old saying goes, “Many hands make the light work”.
Dear class, what can we do to support ORBIS?
Life is beautiful because of the strong will(n.愿望).
Life is wonderful because of the true love.
生命因坚强而美丽
生命因关爱而精彩