1. Unit 4 sharing

2. What are they doing?
donating blood

3. fighting against the flood and rescuing the old and the sick

4. planting trees and protecting our environment

5. helping the disabled

6. Teaching the kids in the remote areas

7. The definition of “volunteer”
outside
People who help others ____ or _____ their community would be called volunteers.
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8. The important factors of “volunteer”
Not for rewards – esp. money and materials
Volunteer – not forced to do so
Not only the person but also the society and the environment benefit from it.
With participation(分享；参与)
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9. Do you know the sign for volunteers?
Have a think
Do you know the sign for volunteers?
What does the sign remind you of?
A hand: _________________
A heart:_________________
A dove: _________________
A letter:_________________
help
love and care
peace
Y stands for youth

11. Who
Where
What
Jo, a young Australian woman
Papua New Guinea
a volunteer teacher

12. located to the north of Australia
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
巴布亚新几内亚独立国
located to the north of Australia
Do you know where PNG is?

13. Location: Population: Language: Papua New Guinea
Located to the north of Australia
About 5.7 million
English as the official language. Pidgin English
(巴布亚皮钦语) as the language for communication.

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

15. Papua New Guinea Economy: Education:
A poor country with most people living in tribal（部族的） villages and depending on subsistence farming（生存农业） to make a living.
About 85% of children start school but only about 60% of these reach Year 5.

16. Housing Conditions
Hut

17. the tribe (部落)

18. village people

19. Poor conditions in the classroom

20. A Letter Home
--By Jo

21. of Australian Volunteers International, has worked as a
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.

22. Jo was a volunteer from Australia who worked in PNG for two years.

23. Number the paragraphs before reading.
Read P1 and preview main idea of the text.
The text is written in the form of a ______
by Jo, a young _________. She describes ________ in PNG and includes some _______.
letter
volunteer
photos
her life
Now divide the text into 4 parts.

24. 1 2-3 4-8 9 Part 1 (Para.____) Part 2 (Para. ____) Part 3 (Para. ____)
Main idea of each paragraph
Opening of the letter and introduction of the topic
— Jo’s life in PNG.
Part 1
(Para.____) 1
Part 2
(Para. ____)
Jo’s school and
her teaching work.
2-3
Part 3
(Para. ____)
Jo’s visit to Tombe’s
home in the village.
4-8
Part 4
(Para. ____)
End of the letter. 9

25. Part 2 (Para.2-3)
l. Why does Jo call the school where she teaches a bush school? Because the classrooms are made of bamboo and the roofs of grass. 2.Why did the boys jump out of the windows in the science lesson? Because they had never come across anything like this before.

26. 1 My class
2 Students putting new
grass on classroom roofs
3 Building a new
science lab

27. Part 3(para .4--8) Jo’s visit to Tombe’s home in the village.
The villagers
Tombe’s mother---Kiak preparing
vegetables
Mukap ---Tombe’s father

28. View of the village from the ridge山脊
Village hut
stick out
doorway

29. the place for cooking

30. Part 3(para .4--8) Jo’s visit to Tombe’s home in the village.
Jo’s first visit to a village
Time to get there
Description of the house
A low bamboo hut with grass ______________ of the roof
No _________
Narrow _________
Two and a half hours
of walking
sticking out
windows
doorway

31. platform fireplace broom a couple of laid placed covered
Jo’s first visit to a village
inside the house
A newly made _________ for Jenny and me to sleep on
A(n) __________ in the centre of the hut near the doorway
A ______, a few tin plates and cups and _____________ jars.
platform
fireplace
broom
a couple of
Jo’s first visit to a village
Outside the house
Mukap _____ stones in the fire, and he ______them in an empty oil drum with kau kau, corn and greens.
He then ______ the vegetables with banana leaves and left them to steam.
laid
placed
covered

32. What do you think of the life in the village according to Jo’s description?
Their life is poor, simple, agricultural, primitive（原始的）and self-sufficient.
What did Jo think of her visit and the day spent with Tombe’s family? Why did she think so?
She considered it a privilege as she was warmly welcomed and had a close contact with them, feeling their hospitality（好客） and sincerity（真诚） although she couldn’t understand their language.