Module 6 Unit 4 Task Helping poor children

Skills building 1: listening for problems and causes

When you are listening to a news report, you often need to think about the problems being discussed and their causes. Here are some key expressions to listen for: Skills building 1: listening for problems and causes

Problems As you can see… The result is… As a result,… As I said earlier… … and so… This means… A common problem is that… Another problem is that…

Causes Causes This is because… This is because… Unfortunately, … Unfortunately, … … because… … because… … because of… … because of… … as … … as …

Read the report in Part C and listen to the tape to complete the table in Part A and Part B. Part A Step 1: finding out about problems and causes

Key points ProblemsCauses Water need to be collected from river no (1) _______ not boiled for long enough very little wood (2) _______ takes several days engineer has to come from nearest town Housesbuilt of wood, not strong no (3) ________ POVERTY

Posse - ssion s Few things like (4) _________ (4) _________ no money a long way from nearest town Have to walk six kilometers to catch bus Light no lights, except from small fire family cooks over No (5) _______ POVERTY

wood for fires wood for fires need to walk further and further away from village to fetch wood Forest has been (6)________ POVERTY

(1) running water (3) money (4) furniture or clothes (5) electricity (6) cut down Check the answers (Part A) Part B

Key points Problems Problems Causes Causes School/Ed- ucation school has no roof or chairs (1)_________ Many children, especially girls, do not ___________ e.g. Have to help with farming Collect wood and fetch water POVERTY

Key points Problems Problems Causes Causes School/Ed- ucation only one teacher Not (3) __________ Farming All farming is done (4) ____ no money for equipment difficult to raise animals Small amount of (5) _____ available POVERTY

Food/ Diet Children have (6)___________ lack of meat and fresh water Healt h / Healt h care Children don’t (7)__ Cannot concentrate on learning do not eat enough meat. Many of the children’s parents have (8) __________ no doctors or nurses and no money to pay them POVERTY

Family Grandparents have to (9)___________ Parents died of AIDS bring up children is difficult Grandparents are (10) _________ POVERTY

(1) poverty (1) poverty (2) go to school (2) go to school (4) by hand (4) by hand (5) land and water (5) land and water Check the answers (Part B) (6) poor diets (6) poor diets (7) grow properly (7) grow properly (8) died of AIDS (8) died of AIDS (9) bring up children (9) bring up children (10) old and poor (10) old and poor

Check the answers (Part C) A (2) repairing of pumps B (3) enough money

Different sentences or sentence structures can be used to perform different functions. Some of the functions are : Skills building 2: discussing in groups

making suggestions: I think it would be a good idea to... We could help by... I would like to suggest that … It would be a good idea if we could…

asking for opinions: What do you think? Does anyone else have any suggestions? Does anyone else have any other ideas? Can you suggest anything else?

expressing agreement / disagreement: expressing agreement / disagreement: I agree/disagree because… I agree/disagree because… Ok, that sounds like a good idea. Ok, that sounds like a good idea. That’s a great idea, but… That’s a great idea, but… I’m sorry but I don’t think that would I’m sorry but I don’t think that would work because … work because … Unfortunately, I don’t think that will Unfortunately, I don’t think that will work. work.

making conclusions: In summary, our group has decided to… In conclusion, we have decided to… Step 2: discussing ways to help poor children:

Discussion After learning about the problems of the children in northern Thailand, your class is going to have a discussion about what to do to help them.

Suggestions:   ways to raise money   sending old clothes, English books, etc., to the children   paying for a child’s education. Use the language in skills building 2 to help you. One person from your group should report to the class.

A proposal should include : title group members introductionproposalbenefits Skills building 3: writing a proposal

Language points

1. face 1) n. 面孔，表面 He was so ashamed that he hid his face in his hands. 2) v. 面对 The window faces the street. ---What does your house face? ---It faces south. Language points

face to face with sth. 面临某种处境 have the face to do sth. 恬不知耻做某事 in the face of sth. 不顾；由于；因为 lose face 丢脸

face the music 承担批评；接受惩罚 face up to sth. 敢于面对；敢于正视 face-to-face adj. 面对面的 be faced with 面对；面临

I was faced with a new problem. You’ve been caught cheating -- now you must face the music. 你的骗局已经揭穿 --- 这下子你得自食其果了 。 How can you have the face to ask for more money when you do so little work?

2. break down 2. break down ( 因机械，电力等故障）停止 运转失灵， 失效 ( 因机械，电力等故障）停止 运转失灵， 失效 The telephone system has broken down. The telephone system has broken down. Our car broke down on the motorway. Our car broke down on the motorway. 汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。 汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。

(2) 失败，崩溃， 瓦解 Negotiations between the two sides have broken down. 双方谈判已经破裂 。 (3) lose control of one’s feelings 感情失去控制

When she heard the bad news, When she heard the bad news, she broke down and wept. she broke down and wept. (4) (of sb.’s health) become very bad; collapse ( 指某人健康状况）变的恶劣；垮 His health broke down under the pressure of work. His health broke down under the pressure of work.

break into 闯入；打断；突 然 …… 起来 break away 突然离开，逃走，脱离，废除 break forth 突然发出 break in 闯入，打断（谈话） break off 暂停，绝交

break out 发生，爆发 break through 突破 break up 散开，分解，解散，打断 break with sb. 与某人决裂 break one’s heart 使人心碎

His bedroom was broken into yesterday evening. Fire broke out during the night. He broke off in the middle of a sentence. The meeting broke up at eleven o’clock. A shout of joy broke forth.