1. 人教课标
高二 选修7
Unit 4

2. Unit 4
Sharing

3. Reading

4. Warming up

5. Volunteer

6. The definition of 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.

7. What do the volunteers usually do to help other people?
A possible version: The volunteers make their greatest efforts to help others. For example, they collect money for the Hope Project to help poor children afford their schooling; they go to serve old people in the community; they join “1 help 1” project to visit elderly people who live alone and help with shopping, do jobs in the house, etc.

8. If we were volunteers, what could we do to help them?

9. Sharing
If everybody offers a little love, the world will become more beautiful.

10. Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Pre-reading
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
巴布亚新几内亚独立国
Do you know where PNG is?

12. 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。
巴布亚新几内亚国旗和国徽 (极乐鸟)

13. 首 都: 莫尔兹比港 Port Moresby
面 积: 46.2万平方公里
人 口: 430万人
语 言: 英语
 民 族: 美拉尼西亚族
宗 教: 基督教新教、拜物教
 货 币: 基那  
国庆节: 9月16日
 时 差: 比北京时间早2小时
 气 候: 热带雨林气候

16. A letter home 1. What kind of student was in Jo’s class?
Look at the photos and answer the questions.
1. What kind of
student was
in Jo’s class?

17. Secondary school children from a
developing country. We know this because there are no walls to the classroom so the climate must be hot. The desks are close together but there does not appear to be enough desks for each child. The students are poorly dressed.

18. 2. Describe the classrooms.

19. The classrooms are made with wooden poles and have bamboo walls and grass roofs (except for the new science lab which has a metal roof). The floor has bamboo matting on it. The walls do not reach the roofs (except the walls of the science lab). There is no glass in the windows.

20. 3. What similarities and differences can you find between Jo’s classroom and yours?
Similarities to my classroom
1 There are desks.
2 There are both boys and girls in the
classroom.
3 There is no spare space in the
4 There is a separate science laboratory.

21. Differences from my classroom
1 Some of the walls are missing.
2 There is a pole holding up the roof
in the middle of the room.
3 There is no school uniform.
4 The students have no textbooks.
5 There is no glass in the windows.
6 The students have to repair the
classroom themselves.

22. View of the village from the ridge 山脊

23. village hut
stick out
doorway

25. 4. 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.
5. What can you say about life in the village?
The village huts are small. They have no windows. They are made of wood and bamboo and have grass roofs. Meals are prepared and cooked outside.

26. 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.

27. Skimming
Find out the names.
1. _________ will receive this letter from Jo.
2. ____ become a lot more imaginative in teaching.
3. ____________ did visit a village that was the home of one of the boys, Tombe.
Rosemary Jo
Jo and Jenny

28. 4. _____ started crying “ieee ieee” to welcome them.
5. _______ led us to his house, a low
bamboo hut.
6. _______ was going to share the platform with Jenny and Jo.
Kiak
Mukap
Kiak

29. Scanning
Divide it into four parts, and summarize what each part is about.
Opening of the letter and introduction to what will be talked about in the passage.
Part 1 (Paragraph 1):

30. Part 2 (Paragraph 2-3):
The school where Jo worked and Jo’s work at school.
Jo and Jenny visited Tombe’s home in the village.
Closing of the letter.
Part 3 (Paragraph 4-8):
Part 4 (Paragraph 9):

31. Read the letter carefully and answer the questions.
1. Why did Jo send Rosemary some photos?
2. Why the high school was called a bush school?
It’s difficult for Rosemary to imagine how life was hard / different in Jo’s description.
The classroom was made from bamboo and the roofs were made from grass.

32. 3. Were the boys and villagers friendly to Jo? How do you know?
4. Why was Science the most challenging subject for Jo?
Lots of “good mornings”; cry “ieee ieee”; shake hands.
There was no equipment.

33. 5. Why did the boys start jumping out the window?
6. Why should it take Jo and Jenny two and a half hours to get to the village?
The boy never came across something like bubbling mixture.
They had to climb up a mountain to a ridge first and then down a steep slope to the valley.

34. Read the passage carefully again to complete the tables below!
Table 1 (about the school)
Conditions
Our school
The school described in the letter
Classrooms (Equipped or not)
Not equipped
Equipped

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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
Inside
platform
fireplace
a couple of

39. 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

40. Choose the best answer.
1. The purpose that the author wrote the letter is that ______.
she wanted to tell Rosemary her
teaching life in the high school.
B. she wanted to tell Rosemary her learning life in the high school.
C. she wanted to tell Rosemary that she couldn’t get any money by teaching the poor students
D. she wanted to tell Rosemary how happy she was in the small village. A

41. 2. In a chemistry experiment the boys jumped out of the windows because they _____.
A. were frightened by the bubbling
mixture
B. couldn’t stand the terrible smell of the
C. didn’t like doing chemistry experiments
D. knew chemistry was not relevant to them A

42. 3. Which of the following is TRUE about Jo’s attitude?
A. She is sure that all the boys will go to
college in the future.
B. She believes that chemistry is very
useful to the boys.
C. She is wondering if she can make
any difference to the boys’ lives.
D. She doesn’t like the simple life in the
mountain village. C

43. 4. Which of the descriptions is NOT right about Tombe’s house?
A. It was a low bamboo hut with grass sticking out of the roof.
B. It was dark and there was a fireplace in the centre of it.
C. It was round-shaped, with small windows and a narrow doorway.
D. There were only a few possessions in it. C

44. 5. Why does Jo wonder how relevant
chemistry is to the kids?
A. Because she thinks chemistry is too
difficult to learn.
B. Because she thinks chemistry may
make little difference to the kids’ life.
C. Because the kids there hardly come
across anything of chemistry.
D. Because she thinks chemistry useless. B

45. 6. By writing “The only possessions that I could see were …”, the author wants to tell us ________.
A. Tombe’s family were kind-hearted
B. Tombe’s family were guest-lovers
C. Tombe’s family only used simple
things
D. Tombe’s family were too poor D

46. 7. Why did Tombe throw out the tin can?
A. Because he believed the can attracted
evil spirits.
B. Because he believed any leftovers
attracted evil spirits.
C. Because he believed the can has no use
at all.
D. Because he believed the grill attracted B

47. 8. How did Jo feel after the visit to
Tombe’s family?
A. Happy B. Sad
C. Worried D. Upset A

48. Post-reading
Find or guess the reasons for these facts according to Jo’s letter.
Facts
Reason
The boys jumped out of the windows in the science lesson.
Because they were frightened; they had never seen anything like this before.

49. Facts
Reason
Jo wondered how relevant chemistry was to the boys.
Because most of them would live all their lives as farmers.

50. Facts
Reason
Tombe’s mother cried “ieee ieee” when she saw Jo.
It was her way to welcome visitors to the village and she drew everyone’s attention to their arrival.

51. Facts
Reason
There were no windows in Mukap’s hut.
Perhaps it’s because that was a man’s house.

52. Facts
Reason
The tin can was standing upside down on the grill.
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.

53. Discussion
Now we have two topics to discuss:
Why do you think Jo became a
volunteer in PNG? Give as many
possible reasons as you can. Would you
like to work as a volunteer in a poor
area? Why?

54. A sample of the discussions:
A: I’d like to go to a school described in the letter because it sounds more interesting than my school.
B: But what about going to university? You’d need a better school with more facilities for that, wouldn’t you?

55. C: Yes, I suppose you’d need some textbooks
C: Yes, I suppose you’d need some textbooks. It must be hard to learn all the right things without a textbook.
D: True. It’d be difficult to pass the exams to get into college.
B: And you’d have to do so much walking every morning and evening!

56. A: But think how fit you’d be!
D: And there’d be no time for homework after all that walking! You’d only have time to eat and go to bed.
C: Yes, you’re right. It sounds a hard life but in a different way from ours.
A: So would you like to go to this school?
B, C and D: No, thank you!

57. Roses given, fragrance in hand.
A proverb to enjoy
Roses given, fragrance in hand.
赠人玫瑰, 手留余香。

58. Homework
1. Finish Exercise 3 on Page 31.
2. Read the passage again after class and find all the attributive clauses in it.
3. Recite the key sentences in the text.
4. Preparations: Learning about Language on Page 32.

59. Thank you!