B7 U4 reading1-冯.ppt

1、B7 U4 Reading (P29) A Letter Home By Feng Jinxing from WHHS,What does the sign remind you of?,A hand: _ A heart: _ A dove/pigeon: _ The letter Y: _,help,love and care,peace,youth,We call a person who offers service or help to others in need without being paid or rewarded a _. Volunteers do varieties

2、 of work with the purpose of: helping the old, the disabled and the weak; fighting against natural disasters; protecting our environment; helping the poor children in less-developed areas; ,volunteer,What are the volunteers doing?,fight against the flood and rescue the old and the sick,plant trees a

3、nd protect our environment,help the disabled,clean the community,Teach the kids in the mountainous areas,In todays passage, we will come to an Australian volunteer named Jo, who helped teach the poor children in a mountainous village in an island country Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the Pacific Ocean,N

4、ow Jo is writing to Rosemary - her friend at home in Australia.,What can you guess Jo will say in her letter to Rosemary?,Fast reading,The letter is mainly about Jos experience as a _ _ and her first _ to a students house in a village in PNG.,volunteer teacher,visit,Listen to the whole passage on pa

5、ge 29 and page 30 and try to complete the following main idea:,B. Opening of the letter and introduction to what will be talked about in the passage.,Part 1 (1),Part 2 (2-3),Part 3 (4-8),Part 4 (9),C. The school where Jo worked and Jos work at school.,D. Jo and Jenny visited Tombes home in the villa

6、ge.,A. Closing of the letter.,Match the main idea with each part,Part 1 (1): opening of the letter,1. How long did it take before Jo received Rosemarys letter? a fortnight (two weeks). 2. What is Rosemary eager to know? all about Jos life in the village in PNG.,Part 2 (2-3): the school and Jos work

7、there,1. Why does Jo call the high school a “bush school”? Because the classrooms are made of bamboo and the roofs grass. 2. Were the boys friendly to Jo? How do you know? Yes. There are a lot of “good mornings” for Jo from the boys. 3. Did the students live near their school? No. Many of them had t

8、o walk a long way to go to school. 4. Why was science the most challenging subject for Jo? Because there was no equipment. 5. Why did the boys start jumping out of the windows? Because the boys never came across anything like the bubbling mixture. 6. Why does Jo wonder how relevant chemistry is to t

9、he kids? Because most of the boys will go back to their villages after year 8 and she thinks chemistry may make little difference to the kids life.,Part 3 (4-8): a visit to Tombes house,1. With whom did Jo visit one of his students Tombes house ? Another teacher, Jenny. 2. How did they go to Tombes

10、house and how long did it take them to get there? They walked for two and a half hours to get there. 3. How did Tombes mother Kiak welcome their arrival? She started crying “ieee ieee”. 4. Who led Jo and Jenny to Tombes house? Tombes father, Mukap. 5. Where did Jo and Jenny sleep in Tombes house? On

11、 a newly-made platform on the floor.,Part 3 (4-8): a visit to Tombes house,6. What are the only possessions in Tombes house? one broom, a few tin plates and cups and a couple of jars. 7. What were the hot stones in the fire used for? cooking. 8. Why did Tombe throw away the leftover food dried up in

12、 the can? Because they believe that any leftovers attract evil spirits in the night. 9. How did Jo feel after the visit to Tombes family? A. Happy B. Sad C. Worried D. Upset,Discussion,Would you like to work as a volunteer in a poor area? Why or why not?,1. What does the sign look like? Heart Hand Pigeon 2. What does it stand for?,The sign of United Nations Volunteer in China (中国青年志愿者),We call those who help others in their community or outside their community without asking for any reward _. They do varieties of work with the purpose of: helping the old,