Sharing means offering
what we have to
others,especially those in
need.
Sharing is a virtue.
When we offer others
something,we ourselves will
also benefit.
Give roses
to others
and the
lasting
fragrance
will remain
in your
hand.
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赠人玫瑰,手有余香
If
everybody
offers a
little love,
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will
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• When we see someone in need,or
suffer,we may offer what we have to
them,for example, donate some
food,water,money etc.This is “sharing”.
• Those who not only offer things but
also come to help out in the flesh are
called“ volunteers”.
Do you know any voluntary
organization?
Chinese Youth
Volunteer
Olympic Games
Volunteer
United Nations
Volunteers Hope Project
What does the sign
remind you of?
A hand: _________________
A heart:_________________
A dove: _________________
A letter:_________________
help
love and care
peace
stand for youth
People who help others __ their
community or _______ their community
would be called volunteers. However,
they would not be called volunteers if
they help their parents, other relatives or
friends.
The definition of volunteer
in
outside
What do volunteers usually
do to help people?
helping the
disabled
What are the volunteers doing?
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planting trees and
protecting our
environment
12th,March Planting Trees Day
doing the cleaning/cleaning the
community
Serving the
Olympics
fighting
against the
flood and
rescuing the
old and the
sick
Donating
money to
help people
in the
earthquake
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Teaching the kids in the
mountainous areas
Jo was a
volunteer
worked in
Papua New
Guinea (PNG)
for two years.
Jo
Pre-reading
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
巴布亚新几内亚独立国
Do you know where PNG is?
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located to the north of Australia
PNG’s national flag and
national emblem(国徽)
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.
Look at the photos and answer the questions.
1. What kind of
student was
in Jo’s class?
Pre-reading Look at the photos from Jo and answer the
questions.
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.
Boys.Sex discrimination
2. Describe the
classrooms.
3. What were the classrooms like?
Is the classroom well equipped?
The classrooms are made of bamboo
and grass, very poorly equipped.
Students putting new grass
on classroom roof Building a new science lab
3. What similarities and differences can
you find between Jo’s classroom and
yours?
Similarities to my classroom
1.We both have the desks.
2.The classroom is very crowded.
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.
View of the village
from the ridge山脊
Village hut
It’s poor. The village
is a place full of
natural beauties.
What do you think of
the village?
stick out
doorway
4. What can you say about the village?
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.
A Letter Home
--By Jo
(a volunteer works in
Papua New Guinea)
Step 1:Fast-reading
Part 1(Para 1) :
Part 2(Para____):
Part 3 (Para____):
Part 4 (Para 9):
Jo and Jenny
visited Tombe’s
home in the village.
End of the letter.
An introduction
The condition of
the school
Match each part with its main idea
2-3
4-8
Step2 :Careful-reading
Do the exercise in
English Weekly
1. Jo wrote the letter to her friend to ___.
• encourage her friend to come to PNG.
B. share some photos she took in PNG.
C. describe her work experience in PNG.
D. introduce Papua New Guinea to her
friend.
The best choice
2. The boys jumped out of the windows
in the chemistry class because they___.
A. didn’t like doing chemistry
experiments
B. were frightened by the bubbling
mixture
C. wanted to ask someone else for help.
D. couldn’t stand the smell of the
mixture
3. Why does Jo wonder how relevant
chemistry is to the boys?
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.
4. What can we learn about the
school?
A. It is located in a bush.
B. Its buildings are round.
C. It is very dark inside.
D. It is far from most students’
homes.
5. Why did Tombe throw the leftover
food out of the hut?
A. He disliked the leftover food.
B. It was too dry to eat.
C. He believed leftovers attracted
evil spirits.
D. He always wasted food.
superstition
6. 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
7. 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 poorD
8. How did Jo feel after the visit to
Tombe’s family?
A. Happy B. Sad
C. Worried D. Upset
A
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.
Read the letter carefully and
answer the questions.
3. Were the boys and villagers friendly to
Jo? How do you know?
4. Why was Science the most challenging
subject for Jo?
There was no equipment.
Lots of “good mornings”; cry “ieee ieee”;
shake hands.
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?
They had to climb up a mountain to a ridge
first and then down a steep slope to the valley.
The boy never came across something like
bubbling mixture.
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.
Facts Reason
Jo wondered how relevant
chemistry was to the boys. Because most of
them would live all
their lives as
farmers.
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.
Facts Reason
There were no windows in
Mukap’s hut. Perhaps it’s
because that was a
man’s house.
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.
From the text we know that
Jo worked as a volunteer
teacher in a poor area. Did
she enjoy her life there?.
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Step4:Talking
Talking
• I would/wouldn’t like to be a
volunteer.
•Because I want to share… with
others/ …
• (The reason is that …)
Would you like to work as
a volunteer as Jo ?
Step5: Summary:
To be a volunteer is everyone’s
responsibility. When you visit the
poor area, realizing what you will
do can make a difference, maybe
you will change your opinion.
Perhaps a single can not change the
world, but if we
pay-it-forward(把爱传下去),the
world would be more beautiful!
Homework
Read the passage again
after class and find all the
attributive clauses in it.