内容正文:
If you are to teach Chinese abroad, where do you prefer to go?
Advanced facility
Rich resources
Higher pay
Bigger demands
What challenges?
Where is Jo?
What is she doing?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of teaching in the jungle?
How do you understand the sentence “Its important not to be rigid about rules”?
What do you think of Tombe’s family and the villagers?
How did Jo feel throughout her experience there?
What are the advantages and disadvantages
Advantages:
Students cherish the opportunity to learn and show respect for their teachers.
Students lack elementary knowledge, making it easier for them to have a sense of achievements and thus more easily motivated.
Teachers get to know more about exotic culture.
What are the advantages and disadvantages
Disadvantages:
Limited teaching aids
Poor living conditions
Outdated educational philosophy
Incompatible society development
How do you understand the sentence “Its important not to be rigid about rules”?
The living condition there is too backward and thus she has to change her routine in order to fulfill her normal needs. Expediency plays its role here. She is revealing here a sense of helplessness.
What do you think of Tombe’s family and the villagers?
Living in harmony with each other (friendly)
Polite and considerate
Hospitable
How did Jo feel throughout her experience there?
homesick
happy and excited
helpless
puzzled
satisfied/thrilled
marveled
appreciative
exhausted
content/privileged
Why do some people volunteer to teach kids in underdeveloped countries?
They are compassionate for people short of education and opportunities.
They believe in the power of knowledge.
They hope to contribute to global equity.
They love to experience diverse cultures in the world.
Such experiences can be helpful for their future career or further education.
get a parcel from
be dying to do
a dusty track covered in weeds
a chorus of
not to mention
have no concept of doing
be rigid about
bubble out of
come across
be relevant to
make a difference to
a remote village
从……收到一个包裹
急切地想做某事
一条布满杂草的泥路
异口同声的
更别提
没有做……的概念
对……很死板
冒着泡涌出……
遇到
与……相关
对……有影响
一个偏远的村庄
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a shaded path
a wrinkled forehead
bamboo hut
oil drum
interpret
drag oneself down the mountain
一条荫凉的小径
布满皱纹的额头
竹屋
油桶
解释;口译
艰难地下山
The mixture was bubbling out of the test tube _________ (spill) everywhere.
I walked first up a mountain __________ we had fantastic views.
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This is a bamboo hut with no windows, with a door just big ______ to get through, and with grass _______ (stick) out of the roof.
We ate inside the hut ______ (sit) round the fire.
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