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Unit4 Sharing
Reading and Thinking
Learning objectives
To get some basic information about volunteering.
To understand the passage about volunteering in Papua New Guinea.
To know about the education and living conditions in less developed areas.
To increase the awareness of the importance of helping others.
Step 1 Lead-in
Watch a video titled The Most Dangerous Ways To School and try to tell your impression of Papua New Guinea.
1, What is your impression of Papua New Guinea after watching the video?
2, Why do the kids take up the challenge to go to school?
Step 2 课前预习清单
一,匹配单词
1. secondary A. very strict and difficult to change;not willing to change their
opinions
2. chorus B. a line or small fold in your skin,especially on your face,that
forms as you get older
3. uniform C. the part of the face above the eyes and below the hair
4. rigid D. part of a song that is sung after each verse
5. wrinkle E. less important than sth. else;connected with teaching children
of 11-18 years
6. forehead F. fully grown and ready to be eaten
7. ripe G. not varying;the special set of clothes worn by all members of a
group at work
二,Based on the title and the picture, predict what the text may be about?
Jo mainly talks about her experience of ___________________________at a bush school and her visit to ______________________________.
三,悉层次结构
Read the passage and match the main idea with each part.
Part 1(Para.1) A. Jo and another teacher visited Tombe’s home in the village.
Part 2(Paras.2-3) B. Getting mail from home made Jo feel nice.
Part 3(Paras.4-8) C. The school where Jo worked and Jo’s work at school.
Step 3 课中研讨清单
Ⅰ While-reading
一,Read Para.1 carefully and do the following exercises.
1.How did Jo feel when receiving the parcel from home?
_______________________________________________________
2.What does this paragraph show?
A.The inconvenience of transportation.
B.The inconvenience of express delivery.
C.The lack of essential supplies.
D.All of the above.
二,Read Paras.2-3 carefully and do the following exercises.
1.How does Jo describe the conditions in the bush school?
A.By definition.
B.By contrast.
C.By listing figures.
D.By analyzing cause and effect.
2.In a chemistry experiment,why did the boys jump out of the windows?
A.Because they were frightened by the bubbling mixture.
B.Because they couldn’t stand the terrible smell of the mixture.
C.Because they didn’t like doing chemistry experiments.
D.Because they knew chemistry was not relevant to them.
3.Why does Jo wonder how relevant chemistry is to the kids?
A.She thinks chemistry is too difficult to learn.
B.She thinks chemistry may make little difference to the kids’ lives.
C.The kids there hardly come across anything of chemistry.
D.She thinks chemistry is useless.
4.What is Jo’s attitude to the effect of her job there?
A.Doubtful. B.Positive.
C.Objective. D.Subjective.
三,Read Paras.4-8 carefully and do the following exercises.
1.Why did Tombe’s mother start crying “ieee ieee” when she saw Jo and Jenny coming?
A.This was Jo’s first visit to a remote village.
B.She was expressing her friendliness and warmth.
C.They walked for two and a half hours to get there.
D.She was afraid of strangers.
2.What kind of life did Tombe’s family live?
A.Rich. B.Wonderful.
C.Primitive. D.Comfortable.
3.What does the author want to tell us by writing “The only possessions I could see were...?”
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 very poor.
4.How did Jo feel after the visit to Tombe’s family?
A.Happy. B.Sad.
C.Worried. D.Upset.
Ⅱ Post-reading
1.What are the differences between the school you go to and the one described in the passage? (Critical thinking)
2. Would you like to become a volunteer? Why or why not? (Creative thinking)
Ⅲ Summary
Summarize the change of Jo’s feelings
Step 4 课后练习清单
Jo wrote the blog entries to tell us her teaching life in a bush school as a volunteer. She described the school whose classrooms 1. __________ (make) of bamboo and roofs of grass. Her most 2. ______________ (challenge) subject was science,for the boys had never come across chemistry experiments before Jo came here. She doubted 3. __________ she was making any difference to those boys’ lives at all.
Jo gave a detailed 4. ____________ (describe) of her first visit to a village. After two and a half hours of walking,she arrived at Tombe’s home 5. __________ she could see a low bamboo hut with grass 6. __________ (stick) out of the roof,which had no windows. Inside the house,she found a 7._______ (new) made platform for Jenny and her to sleep 8. _________. Outside the house,Tombe’s father,Mukap,laid stones on the fire,and placed them in 9.______ empty oil drum with kau kau,ripe corn and greens. He then 10. _________ (cover) the vegetables with banana leaves and left them to steam.
She felt happy after the visit to Tombe’s family.
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