1. The sign of United Nations Volunteer in China (中国青年志愿者)
Unit 4 Sharing
A Letter Home
The sign of United Nations Volunteer in China (中国青年志愿者)

2. Volunteer What kind of person can be called “ volunteer”?
People who help others in their community or outside their community would be called volunteers. However, they would not be called volunteers if they help their parents, other relatives or friends.
中国青年志愿者“标志的整体构图为心的造型，同时也是英文“青年”的第一个字母Y；图案中央既是手，也是鸽子的造型。标志寓意为中国青年志愿者向社会上所有需要帮助的人们奉献一片爱心，伸出友爱之手，以跨世纪的精神风貌，面向世界，走向未来，表现青年志愿者“热情献社会；真情暖人心”的主题

3. Jo is a volunteer teacher in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

4. Match the right main idea of each part.
(Para. 1)
The condition of the school A
The end of the letter. B
Part 2 (Para. 2-3)
I am glad to receive Rosemary’s letter and I’ve included some photos.
Part 3
(Para. 4-8) C
Part 4
(Para. 9)
How I get to know the local people D

5. The letter took ____________ to arrive.
Part 1
The letter took ____________ to arrive.
2.Why did Jo send Rosemary some photos?
a fortnight
Because she was dying to hear all about Jo’s life there and the photos would help her picture the place.

6. Questions & Answers Part 2
1. Are the boys friendly to Jo? How do you know?
2. Why is Science the most challenging subject for Jo?
3. Why did the boys start jumping out of the windows?
Yes. There are lots of “good mornings” for me from the boys.
The students have no concept of doing experiments, and there is no equipment.
The boy had never come across anything like that before.

7. the school
It’s a(n) ____ school — the classrooms are made of ________ and the roofs of _____.
There’s no _______________ and even no ____________.
The school is far away from the students’ home. Many of them have walked ___________.
bush
grass
bamboo
electricity or water
textbooks
a long way

8. Table 1 (about the school) poor
Conditions
Our school
The school
Classrooms (Equipped or not)
Students’ future
Electricity and water (Y/N)
Textbook (Y/N)
Chemistry experiments (Many/few)
Not equipped
Equipped
Go to college or work
Return to the villages
Yes No
Yes No
Many
Few

9. How I get to know the local people
Part 3
Main ideas match maker
Part 3 (Para.4-8)
How I get to know the local people
Para. 4
Para. 5
Para. 6
Para. 7
Para. 8 C E A D B
Mukap did some cooking in a special way.
I left and I felt privileged
C. My first visit to a village.
D. A strange custom about the leftover food.
E. I saw the poor condition of the room.

10. Sleeping arrangements
Read Paragraph 4-5 and finish the chart
Family relationships
Everyone seemed to be a ________ of Tombe’s.
Type of houses
Mukap’s house is a _____________ hut with grass ________________________. No ___________, the doorway was just big enough to _____________. ___________ had been laid on the floor.
Sleeping arrangements
A newly made ________ for Jenny and me to sleep on. Mukap and Tombe were to sleep on ____________.
Possessions
I could only see one _______, a few ___________________and a couple of ________.
relative
low bamboo
sticking out of the roof
windows
get through
Fresh grass
platform
small beds
broom
tin plates and cups
jars

11. Read Paragraph 6-8 and finish the chart
Cooking methods
Hot stones are placed in an empty __________ with vegetables, then the vegetables are covered with _________________ and left to _______.
Diet
______________, ________ and greens.
Beliefs
The villagers believe that leftovers ________ evil spirits in the night, so the food is _________ in the can and __________ out of the hut.
Jo’s feeling
It was such a _________ to have spent a day with Tombe’s family.
oil drum
banana leaves
steam
sweet potato
corns
attract
dried up
thrown
privilege

12. Living in a village is good or bad?
Discussion:
Living in a village is good or bad?
Discuss with your partners and list the positive and negative things about living in a poor village.
Positive aspects
Negative aspects
1. Children value education
1. No running water or electricity 2. 3. 4.
Do not have to rely on outside sources for food
Have no roads to connect with outside world
Close relation between each other
Have to walk a long way to attend school
People can live without many possessions
There might not be any medical services close by

13. Summary
Jo who worked as a volunteer teacher in PNG. Her high school was a bush school, making of bamboo and grass. There was no electricity or water and even no textbooks neither!
It was difficult for Jo to know local people as she didn’t say much of the local English dialect. But she and Jenny did visited a village is the home of Tombe. All the villagers welcomed them and they spent a day stay there.
Mukap cooked some food, which smelled deliciously. They slept on a newly made platform in night. The next morning they left for the village.
made
either
speak ∧
visit
which
staying
delicious at