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Unit 4
Breaking boundaries
What issues do these boundaries cause?
These people are experiencing boundaries in ...
geography
language
culture
These boundaries might cause issues such as remote relationships, misunderstanding or cultural offense.
Learning Objectives
To learn what a MSF doctor will do;
To learn to use some words from the passage to describe the MSF doctors’ qualities and spirit
To deepen the understanding of “ a community with a shared future”.
Unit 4 Breaking boundaries
P2 Understanding ideas
Watch the video and think about the question:
Who are they?
They are called MSF, known as doctors without borders(无国界医生组织).
Let's read the information about MSF and learn
more about them.
Read the information about MSF and answer the questions.
When was MSF founded and what does it do?
Q1
What is the top priority of MSF?
Q2
P38 1
It was founded in 1971 to provide medical care to those affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or a lack of access to health care.
The top priority goes to those in the most serious and immediate danger.
While reading
Read the journal of an MSF doctor and find out what problem he was involved in tackling.
The doctor was involved in tackling the infectious disease Ebola in Liberia.
a virus
infectious
cause death
Ebola
Ebola is a virus that can infect humans and other primates(灵长类). Symptoms usually start two days to three weeks following infection, and include fever, sore throat, muscular pain and headaches. Vomiting, diarrhoea and rash(腹泻和皮疹) often follow, along with reduced liver and kidney function(降低肝肾功能). Internal and external bleeding may also occur at this point.
The average death rate of those infected is about 50%. Ebola was first identified in 1976 in a village near the Ebola River, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Outbreaks tend to occur in tropical(热带) regions of subSaharan Africa, the largest to date being the 2013–2016 epidemic(流行病) in West Africa, which infected 28,616 people and claimed 11,310 lives.
Ebola
Choose the ideas conveyed in the passage and find evidence to support your choices.
It is not the first time the author has worked with MSF.
The work with MSF in Liberia is life-threatening.
The author enjoyed working together with all his colleagues.
The author always felt frustrated with the high death rate.
Check your answers.
Evidence for 2
Evidence for 3
The work with MSF in Liberia is life-threatening.
The author enjoyed working together with all his colleagues.
Now use five adjectives to describe the spirit of MSF doctors and give your reasons.
highly devoted
brave
persistent
cooperative
selfless
kind
dedicated
...
Organise information from the passage and complete the table.
I saw the tragic scenes on the news and I felt it was my duty as a doctor to go there and offer my help.
with strong sense of mission
I got to know the daily routine and my colleagues and started my work.
Together with the others working for or alongside MSF, I helped those who were infected with the terrible disease Ebola.
Two young brothers survived the disease after their family members had died.
proud, hopeful, amazed
We celebrated because it’s exactly one month since the last reported case, and my time is almost up.
We are collaborating to create a global community with a shared future of peace and prosperity.
happy, inspired, proud, hopeful
P40 4
What is your understanding of “a community with a shared future for mankind”?
How is the idea reflected in the MSF doctor's journal?
Now read the information and answer the questions.
我们呼吁,各国人们同心协力,构建人类命运共同体,建立持久和平、普遍安全、共同繁荣、开放包容、清洁美丽的世界。
P40 4
What is your understanding of “a community with a shared future for mankind”?
How is the idea reflected in the MSF doctor's journal?
2. The author mentioned that Ebola has no respect for borders. This indicates that borders are artificial. Many human differences are similarly artificial or unimportant when compared to what unites people. Doctors and others involved in the fight against the disease were united by their common values of respecting and saving human life.
In spite of the national boundaries, we are a family and
we have the responsibility to build an open and peaceful world.
1. take any chances
2. comrades in arms
3. raise virtual glasses
4. offer help
5. put … at risk
6. involved in
7. at the end of
8. hear … doing/being done
9. introduce sb. to sb.
10. in one's 50s
冒险
战友
象征性举起酒杯
提供帮助
将……置于危险之中
涉及/牵扯到……中的
在……的结束
听到……正在做/被……
介绍某人给某人
在某人50多岁
11. a growing sense of
12. devotion to the cause
13. surrounded by
14. give up on
15. end in miracles
16. against all odds
17. make a full recovery
18. compensate for
19. be caught up in
20. step into one’s shoes
越来越强烈的……感
对这一事业的奉献
被……包围着的
放弃
以奇迹结束
突破万难
完全恢复
弥补
牵扯进
接替某人工作
Discussion
Let's watch a short video about Chinese experts sharing experience in fighting against COVID-19.
Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake.
Santosh Kalwar
We should collaborate to create a global community with a shared future of peace and prosperity.
Translate the following sentences.
1. 他冒生命危险救下了他的战友。
2. 艾玛介绍我认识参与对抗这种可怕疾病的其他工作人员。
3. 我们永远不会放弃一个病人,我们的努力有时会以奇迹结束。
4. 兄弟俩突破万难,完全康复了。
Check your answers!
1. He put his life at risk to save his comrades in arms.
2. Emma introduced me to other workers involved in combating this terrible disease.
3. We will never give up on a patient, and our efforts do sometimes end in miracles.
4. Against all odds, the two brothers made a full recovery.
Self-evaluation
1. Can you retell the writer's experience of
fighting Ebola with MSF according to
the table on page 40 ?
2. What are the writer's feelings toward
what he did?
3. What should we do in breaking
boundaries?
1. Search online to find other boundaries
which we need to break and what
people have done in breaking them.
2. Preview Using language part on page
41.
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