1. Unit4 Sharing
Reading

2. What do you know about Papua New Guinea?
Pre-reading
What do you know about Papua New Guinea?

3. Independent State of Papua New Guinea
巴布亚新几内亚独立国

4. Independent State of Papua New Guinea

5. There are many volunteers working in
different mountainous areas or
developing countries, among which
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one.
Location: situated to the north of Australia
Population: about 5.7 million

6. Language: English as the official language,
Pidgin English as the language for
communication
Economy: a poor country with most people
living in tribal villages and depending on
subsistence farming to make a living.
Education: About 85% of children start school
but only about 60% of these reach Year 5

7. PNG’s national flag and national emblem (国徽)
PNG’s paper currency

8. Houses are made of bamboo and grass.

9. the tribe (部落)

10. the villagers 巴布亚在马来语中意为“卷发人”。16世纪中叶， 葡萄牙人来到该岛时, 见当地居民和自然景观很像
非洲的几内亚, 故称之为新几内亚。

11. Poor Children

13. capital

14. remote market

15. Jungle highway

16. cultural show warriors

17. hunting kids

18. village people

19. Beautiful & Modern

20. Papua New Guinea (PNG) (巴布亚新几内亚)

21. Jo, a young Australian woman of Australian Volunteers International,
has worked as a volunteer teacher in
Papua New Guinea for two years.
Rosemary, a friend of Jo in Australia
is dying to know all about Jo’s life at
Papua New Guinea.
want to do something so much that you do not want to wait

22. Jo was a volunteer worked
in Papua New Guinea (PNG)
for two years.
The following photos were
taken by Jo in PNG. Look at
the photos and answer the
questions.

23. 1 My class
2 Students putting new
grass on classroom roofs
3 Building a new
science lab

24. Pre-reading My Class 1. What was Jo’s job in PNG?
Look at the photos from Jo and answer the questions.
Pre-reading
My Class
1. What was Jo’s job in PNG?
2. What kind of students were in her class? Boys, girls, or both?
Jo was a teacher in PNG.
Teenage boys. They are poorly dressed.

25. 3. What were the classrooms like? Is the classroom well equipped?
Students putting new grass on classroom roof
Building a new science lab
3. What were the classrooms like?
Is the classroom well equipped?
The classrooms are very poorly
equipped, made of bamboo and grass.

26. What similarities and differences can you find
between Jo’s classroom and yours?
Similarites to my classroom
Differences from my classroom
Some of the walls
are missing.
There is a pole
holding up the roof in
the middle of the room.
3. There is no school
uniform.
1. There are desks.
There are both boys
and girls in the
classroom.

27. Similarites to my classroom
Differences from my classroom
3. There is no spare
space in the classroom.
4. There is a separate
science laboratory.
4. The students have
no textbooks.
5. There is no glass in
the windows.
6. The students have to
repair the classroom
themselves.

28. 4 View of the village
from the ridge
5 Some of Tombe’s
family with Mukap
on the left

29. 6 Kiak preparing
vegetables
7 Tombe’s family and
Jenny waiting for the
meal to cook

30. 8 A woman and baby
we saw on the way home
9 Tombe with his
grandfather who’s
digging up peanuts

31. 10 Village huts

32. Jo took many photos of a visit to a student's village
Jo took many photos of a visit to a student's village. What can you say about the village?
The village is very small. It is by a river at the bottom of a valley. It has steep slopes all around it.

33. The village huts are small. They have no windows
The village huts are small. They have no windows. They are made of wood and bamboo and have grass roofs. Meals are prepared outside. One of the crops grown is peanuts. The tool used for this crop is a digging stick. There is a woman carrying a naked baby on her shoulders. She is also carrying a heavy-looking bag. She has bare feet.
5.What can you say about life in the village?

34. --By Jo (a volunteer works in Papua New Guinea)
Reading
A Letter Home
--By Jo
(a volunteer works in
Papua New Guinea)

35. It’s about Jo’s experience as a volunteer teacher
Task1 Fast-reading
What is the letter mainly about?
It’s about Jo’s experience
as a volunteer teacher
and her first visit to a village
in PNG.

36. Each part with its main idea:
Opening of the letter and introduction to what will be talked about in the passage.
Part 1 (Paragraph 1):
Part 2 (Paragraph 2-3):
The school where Jo worked and Jo’s work at school.
Part 3 (Paragraph 4-8):
Jo and Jenny visited Tombe’s home in the village.
End of the letter.
Part 4 (Paragraph 9):

37. Task2 Detailed-reading
Complete the sentences with the characters mentioned in the letter:
1. ______ is a young Australian woman.
2. ________ was dying to hear all about Jo’s life in Papua New Guinea.
3. ________ walked a long way to get to the school .
4. ________________ didn’t have any textbooks.
5. ____became a lot more imaginative when teaching Jo
Rosemary
The boys
The boys and Jo Jo

38. 6. ________ started jumping out of the windows during a chemistry experiment.
The boys
Jenny and Jo
7. ____________ visited a village that was
the home of one of the boys, Tombe.
8. _______ started crying “ieee ieee” to
welcome them.
9. ______ led us to a low bamboo hut.
10. ______ was going to share the platform
with Jenny and Jo.
11. _____________ softly talked to each
other in their language Jo didn’t
understand.
Kiak
Mukap
Kiak
Tombe’s family

39. Task3 Reading carefully
Read the passage carefully to complete the tables below!

40. Table 1 (about the school)
Conditions
Our school
The school described in the letter
Classrooms (Equipped or not)
Equipped
Not equipped

41. Students’ future
Electricity and water (Y/N)
Textbook (Y/N)
Chemistry experiments (Many/few)
Go to college or work
Return to the villages
Yes No
Yes No
Many
Few

42. Conclusion:
Jo’s high school
It’s a(n) 1____ school — the classrooms are made from 2________ and the roofs from grass.
There’s no 3 _______________ and we don’ t have any textbooks.
bush
bamboo
electricity or water

43. Table 2 (about the life in the village) Jo’s first visit to a village
Time to get there
Two and a half hours of walking
Description of the house
A low bamboo hut with grass 4___________ of the roof
No windows
Narrow doorway
sticking out

44. Jo’s first visit to a village
5 ____ the house
A newly made 6_____ for Jenny and me to sleep on
A(n) 7_______ in the centre of the hut near the doorway
A few tin plates and cups and 8__________ pots
platform
Inside
fireplace
a couple of

45. Jo’s first visit to a village
Outside the house
Mukap 9_____ stones in the fire, and he placed them in an empty oil drum with kau kau, corn and greens.
He then 10______ the vegetables with banana leaves and left them to steam.
laid
covered

46. True or false F F T T F The classrooms are made from bricks and the
roofs from grass.
2. It always takes the boys only a few minutes to
get to the school.
3. Science is the most challenging subject for Jo.
4. When Jo and Jean arrived at the village, they
shook hands with all the villagers.
5. Tombe threw out the tin can because it’s very
dirty. F F T T F

47. Comprehending Types of houses Diet Family relationship Possessions
1.What have you learned about the customs and lives of the people in Tombe’s village? Read Jo's letter again and look at her photos. Then complete the table below.
Types of houses
Diet
Family relationship
Possessions
cooking methods
agriculture
sleeping arrangements
beliefs

48. Types of houses
Diet
Small, round, made of bamboo, grass roofs; men’s huts have grass sticking out of the top of the roof, no windows (men and women have separate huts); small doorway, floor covered with fresh grass
Sweet potato, corn, greens, banana leaves, peanuts

49. Family relation-
ship
Posse-ssions
Large extended families (“everyone seemed to be a relative of Tombe’s.”
Not many-a few tin plates and cups, a couple of pots

50. Cooking methods
Agricul-
ture
Hot stones are placed in an oil drum, then vegetables are placed in the drum, covered with banana leaves and steamed.
Tools are very basic e.g. a digging stick. (there is no machine-
ry.)

51. The villagers believe in evil spirits
The villagers believe in evil spirits. They believe that leftover food attracts evil spirits so they dry it out in a can over the fire. Then the can is thrown out of the hut.
Sleeping arrange-ments
Beliefs
A new sleeping platform for the guests, Kiak usually slept in her own hut.

52. 2.Find or guess the reasons for these facts according to Jo’s letter.
The boys jumped out of the windows in the science lesson.
Jo wondered how relevant chemistry was to the boys.
Tombe’s mother cried “ieee ieee” when she saw Jo.
There were no windows in Mukap’s hut.
The tin can was standing upside down on the grill.

53. Facts
Reason
The boys jumped out of the windows in the science lesson.
Jo wondered how relevant chemistry was to the boys.
Tombe’s mother cried “ieee ieee” when she saw Jo.
Because they were frightened; they had never seen anything like it before.
Because most of them would live all their lives as farmers.
It was her way to welcome visitors to the village and she drew everyone’s attention to their arrival.

54. Facts
Reason
There were no windows in Mukap’s hut.
The tin can was standing upside down on the grill.
Because it was a man’s house.
The tin can was used to dry out the leftover food, which might attract evil spirits, so the tin/can was thrown out of the hut.

55. 1 No running water or electricity 2 3 4
3. What do you think are the positive and negative things about lining in a village in Papua New Guinea. Give your reasons. The first one is done for you.
Positive aspects
Negative aspects
1 Boy value education
1 No running water or electricity 2 3 4

56. Positive aspects
Negative aspects
1 Boy value education.
1 No running water or electricity.
2 Everyone would know each other.
2 The village might be cut off from the outside world and might not have roads to and form it.

57. Positive aspects
Negative aspects
3 The village does not have to rely on outside sources for food.
3 The village might not have a school so students might have to walk along way to the closest school.
4 People can live without many possessions.
4 There might not be any medical services close by.

58. 4. Discuss the question.
Why do you think Jo bacame a volunteer in PNG? Give as many possible reasons as you can . Would you like to work as a volunteer in a poor area? Give reasons.
Because I want to share… with others/ …
The reason is that …

59. Discussion: Would you like to work as a
volunteer in a poor area?
I think I will be a volunteer in a poor area.
Whenever I saw the poor living state of the
poor in the western areas and mountainous
areas, I was eager to do something for them.
All men are created equal. But they can’t get
what we can enjoy. What a pity! If possible,
I will try to help.

60. Thank You!