1. Unit 12 Reading

2. Education for All

3.  ren; li 551-479 BC China 1888-1939 cooperation Ukraine concerning
Educator
Time
Country
Way of teaching
Confucius
Anton Makarenko
Anne Sullivan
Tao Xingzhi BC
China
ren; li
cooperation
Ukraine
concerning
the blind
USA
Life
Education
China 

4. Confucius’ philosophy was based on ren (the principle of acting with love and kindness ) and li (acting according to custom and ceremony when with other people in order to show respect and kindness).

5. Anton Makarenko’s believed that physical labour and discipline were important in education. His theories were based on the idea that work result in discipline which is good for the school and benefits the individual.

6. Anne Sullivan became almost blind when she was 5 years old
Anne Sullivan became almost blind when she was 5 years old. She was a student at the Perkins Institute for the Blind. She became Helen Keller’s teacher at the age of 20.
Anne Sullivan worked with Helen Keller for 49 years, and attended college with her to translate the lectures into her hands. Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College and went on to become a famous speaker and author throughout the world.

7. Tao Xingzhi : His idea that life itself was education was the basis of his “Life Education” theory which later came to be an important part of education in China.

8. Pre-reading
Look around our school and list all the equipment, people and plans that are needed to run a school.

9. TVs
multi-media
Equipment
computers
teachers
students
school
people
plans
buildings

10. Reading Choose the best heading for each paragraph in the text.
●Education for all children worldwide will be difficult to achieve.
● Solving the problem of teaching quality in remote areas.
● Compulsory education for all Chinese children
● Problems of number and location G F A D

11. ● Encouraging people in rural areas to accept education
● Meeting the cost
● Education for All--- an international target C E B

12. Details
Each statement below is incorrect. Rewrite the statement according to the text.
There are 113 million children not in school today.
●There were 113 million children not in school in 2000.
2) Children who live on farms do not like to attend school.

13. ● Parents who live on farms often do not like their sons or daughters to attend school.
3) Class sizes are bigger in city schools than in rural schools.
● The number of students at rural schools is lower than that in city schools, so the countryside schools often have mixed grade classes.

14. 4. By 2015 every child in the world will receive nine years of compulsory education.
● It will be very difficult to meet the goal of providing nine years of compulsory education for every child by 2015.

15. According to the passage, which countries use the following methods to help them provide education?
distance learning
mixed-grade classes
money from international
organizations
money from local organizations
China, USA, Australia
China, Turks & Caicos
Islands
China, Lesotho,
developing countries
China

16. Describe the information in the graph to your partner.
Percentage of Young Women in the World who are Able to Read and Write
88%
86%
84%
84%
82%
82%
80%
80%
1990
2000
2010
2020

17. Possible answers:
● In 1990, only 80% of young women in the world were able to read and write.
● By 2000 the number had increased to 83%.
● 12% of the young females worldwide will still be unable to read and write by 2015. …

18. School-age children attending school
100%
99%
98%
97%
96%
95%
94%

19. Possible answers:
● The numbers of school age children increased a lot during this time.
● In 1985 it was just over 95.5%.
● But it rose in the five years and in 1995 it reached 98.5%.
● After that, the number continued to increase and by 2002, 99% of children were attending school.

20. Language points

21. Write a proper word or phrase according to the definition below.
away, not present
the grade or level of achievement
3)to spread around a space or area
4) to make bigger, increase
5) a promise
6) no choice, must be done because of the rule or law
7) not trusting people or ideas,
doubting that something is true.
8) a burden, something to be carried
or put up with
absent
standard
distribute
expand
commitment
compulsory
sceptical
load

22. 2. Para3: … they have a tendency to be absent and drop out later.
In January 1997, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University mainly because Microsoft was taking off and he needed to be there.
词汇扩展：
I thought I’d drop in on you while I was passing.
Drop me a line to say when you’re coming.
Men were dropping like flies in the
intense heat.
顺便拜访
drop by/ over/ around
写封短信
大批倒下

23. 3. Para4:China’a large population meant that the schools had to expand to take in many more students.
词汇扩展：
take off/ on/ over/ up/ out/ after/ for/ down/ in
The firm has been _________ by an American corporation.
We have never met before; it seems that you _____ me _____ somebody else.
Your daughter doesn’t ___________
you at all.
4) The plane took _____ despite the fog.
taken over
take for
take after
off

24. When he saw the police coming, he took off in the opposite direction.
Sales of home computers have taken off in recent years, which makes the computer companies really happy.
5) She was ________ as a waitress.
6) She has _________ a job as a teacher.
7) Anything you say may be ___________ as evidence against you.
8) Take it from me --- he’ll be managing director of this company by the time
he’s 30.
匆忙离去 急升
taken on
taken up
taken down
你可以绝对相信我的话

25. 4. Para3: To start with, it is …
插入语
--- What should we do if we go to study in England?
---To begin with, we should learn English well.
不定式作为固定短语充当插入语的还有：
实话说
老实说
坦白说
first; first of all; to start with
首先，我们要学好英语。
to tell the truth
to be honest
to be frank

26. 5. Para4:
In China most citizens live in the eastern areas and this results in large class sizes.
用与result有关的词组填空：
The flight was delayed _____________ fog.
Our efforts ______________ success.
I was late. ______________, I missed the train.
Inflation ______________ an excess
of demand over supply.
as a result of
resulted in
As a result
results from

27. 6. Find out at phrases as many as possible:
occasionally; immediately; now; not less than; not know what to do; near by; in the end
times
last
once
hand at ?
a loss
present
least

28. Thank you very much!