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Unit 1 What’s the matter?
Section A 3a-3c
virtue [ˈvɜːtʃuː]美德
avoid disadvantage
conscience
virtue
Offer help or not?
conscience[ˈkɑːnʃəns]良知
Watch and discuss
To read and learn about the story of the bus driver—Wang Ping.
To learn to help people when they’re in trouble.
Objectives
Bus Driver and Passengers Save an Old Man
Look at the headline and picture then answer the questions.
Pre-reading
What happened to the man lying by the road?
What was the person next to him doing?
Did this man die?
Who do you think is going to save the man?
He may have a terrible health problem.
She was shouting for help.
No, he didn’t.
I think the bus driver would save him.
3a
Read the passage. Do you think it comes from a newspaper or a book? How do you know?
I think it comes from a newspaper. It tells us the time, the place, the characters
and the event in the first
paragraph. And it is reporting
something that happened very recently and
the whole story is very short.
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At 9:00 a.m. yesterday, bus No. 26 was going along Zhonghua Road when the driver saw an old man lying on the side of the road. A woman next to him was shouting for help.
The bus driver, 24-year-old Wang Ping, stopped the bus without thinking twice. He got off and asked the woman what happened. She said that the man had a
Bus Driver and Passengers Save an Old Man
heart problem and should go to the hospital. Mr. Wang knew he had to act quickly. He told the passengers that he must take the man to the hospital. He expected most or all of the passengers to get off and wait for the next bus. But to his surprise, they all agreed to go with him.
Some passengers helped Mr. Wang to move the man onto the bus.
Thanks to Mr. Wang and the passengers, the man was saved by the doctors in time. “It’s sad that many people don’t want to help others because they don’t want any trouble,” says one passenger. “But the driver didn’t think about himself. He only thought about saving a life.”
Read the passage again and chec