Unit 4 Sharing Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第四册

Unit 4 Reading and Thinking Help the needy Skim Skim the text. What is the type of the text? Who is the writer? A blog with two entries. Jo, a young Australian, worked for two years as a volunteer teacher in Papua New Guinea. 2 According to the title and pictures, can you predict what might be talked about in the text? 1. What is the first blog entry about? 2. What is the second blog entry about? 3. What else did Jo talk about? Her experience of voluntary teaching at a bush school. Her visit to a local family. the challenges she met the positive aspects of her voluntary work her feelings and attitudes to her voluntary work, the people, and the life there Para 1: C The author’s feeling after visiting the village. B Jo received a parcel from home. A What the author witnessed in Tombe’s village. D The conditions about the bush school and the challenges Jo has to be faced with. Para 2-3: Para 5-7: Para 8: Read the text and figure out the main idea of each part. Para 4: E How Jo got to Tombe’s home 5 Detailed reading 1. What do you think “the bush” mean? 2. What has been Jo’s most challenging subject to teach? Why? 3. What did Jo notice about the homes in the village she visited? 4. What did Jo notice after the meal? 5. What is Jo’s general impression of the place and people there? What do you think “the bush” mean? 2. What has been Jo’s most challenging subject to teach? Why? A wilderness area. (remote and unexplored) It’s science, because her students have no concept of doing experiments and there is no equipment. 3. What did Jo notice about the homes in the village she visited? They were low, round bamboo huts with no windows, with a door just big enough to get through, and with grass sticking out of the roof. A can standing upside down on the grill over the fire. 5. What is Jo’s general impression of the place and people there? She loved being there and felt it was a privilege to have spent a day with them. 4. What did Jo notice after the meal? Able to get mail Take only a few minutes to walk to school The students are friendly Nice people Interesting culture No electricity or running water, textbooks, or supplies The students have no concept of doing experiments No washroom The students may not be able to use what they have learnt Have to walk a long distance to go anywhere No beds, few possessions Positive aspect and Negative aspect of Jo’s volunteering in the bush. Volunteering in the Bush Positive aspect Negative aspect Summary Jo, a volunteer teacher in Africa, thought it wonderful to receive a parcel 1. from her home. She had been 2.dying(die)to have some of her favourite sweets.The high school where she worked was a bush school, whose classrooms were made of bamboo and grass. It took her only a few minutes to walk to school down a 3.dusty(dust)track. The other day when Jo was showing the boys a chemistry experiment, the mixture was 4.bubbling(bubble)before she knew it. The boys who had never come 5.across anything like this before were so frightened that they started jumping out of the windows. Sometimes, Jo wondered if chemistry was relevant 6.to the kids and doubted whether she was making any difference to the boys’ lives.Last weekend Jo and her colleague Jenny 7.did(do)visit a remote village which was the home of one of the boys,Tombe. When they arrived, Tombe's father led them to his house, a low bamboo hut with grass 8. sticking(stick)out of the roof. There being no windows, the hut was so dark inside that it took time for her eyes 9.to adjust (adjust). After dinner, Jo listened to the family softly talking to each other though she couldn't participate much in their conversation. She thought it was a privilege to 10.have spent(spend) a day with Tombe’s family. Would you like to become a volunteer teacher? Why or why not? If you had a chance to be a volunteer teacher, how would you help the needy? Important phrases 和...比较 收到一个来自家的包裹 花了大约两周才到 非常渴望 由...制成 一条灰灰的小路 异口同声 棉制服 compare...with got a parcel from home It took about two weeks to arrive be dying to do be made of a dusty track a chorus of cotton uniforms 更不用说 适应 我最挑战的科目 没有...概念 做实验 遇见 诚实的说 有任何的影响 和...握手 与...有关 有皱纹的前额 not to mention adapt to my most challenging subject have no concept of do experiments come across to be honest make any difference shake hands with be related to a wrinkled forehead 通过 在...中心 唯一财产 几个 用...覆盖 参与谈话 一会儿 干涸 荣幸做某事 get through in the centre of the only possessions a couple of cover...with participate in the conversation after a while dry up it was such a privilege to do $$