Unit 4 Breaking Boundaries Understanding Ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 4　Breaking boundaries MY 100 DAYS WITH MSF Pre-reading Read the information about MSF Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders in English, was founded in Paris in 1971 by a group of doctors and journalists. It is an independent, non-profit organisation whose mission is to provide medical care to those affected by conflict, epidemics（流行病）, disasters or a lack of access to health care. It assists people based on need, regardless of which country they are from. The top priority goes to those in the most serious and immediate danger. Today, MSF has over 67, 000 team members from over 150 countries and regions. Ebola a virus infectious cause death 百度百科 Fast reading 1. What is the passage most likely to be taken from? A scientific magazine A doctor’s diary C. A news report 2.Read Para. 1 and answer the questions. raise virtual glasses to each other It’s exactly one month since the last reported case. How Why Who 20 health care workers from almost as many countries, comrades in arms Today we celebrate 3.Read Para. 2 and answer the questions. How did the author decide to go to Liberia with MSF? I felt I knew I thought it was my duty as a doctor to go there and offer my help. I was putting my life at risk. “ If I don't do it, who will? ” 4. What does Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. The author’s mission with MSF. B. The daily routine of the staff. C. The people the author worked with. Later, Emma introduced me to some of the others working for or alongside MSF: Wilton, a young local man,who helped carry the very sick into the treat ment clinic and who disinfected clothing and surfaces;Maisy, a retired public health official from Darwin.Australia, whose local team of volunteers educated people on preventing infection; Alfonso, a soft-spoken Argentinian doctor in his 50s, who had previously worked on Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Guinea.The list went on. I found that I was the only Chinese doctor among people of all ages