1、Unit 4 SharingReadingA Letter Home-By Jo(a volunteer works in Papua New Guinea)Task1 Fast-reading1.Read and get its main idea.The passage is written in the form of a letter by a young_,Jo.It is about her experience_ a teacher and her first visit _ a village _ is the home of her students.volunteerast
2、owhich/that2.Now,can you divide the passage into 4 parts?How?Opening of the letter and introduction to what will be talked about in the passage.Part 1(Paragraph 1):Part 2(Paragraph 2-3):The school where Jo worked and Jos work at school.Part 3(Paragraph 4-8):Jo and Jenny visited Tombes home in the vi
3、llage.End of the letter.Part 4(Paragraph 10):Task2 Detailed-readingcomplete the sentences with the characters mentioned in the letter:1._ is a young Australian woman.2._ was dying to hear all about Jos life in Papua New Guinea.3._ walked a long way to get to the school.4._ didnt have any textbooks.5
4、._became a lot more imaginative when teachingJoRosemaryThe boysThe boys and JoJo6._ started jumping out of the windows during a chemistry experiment.The boys7._ visited a village that was the home of one of the boys,Tombe.8._ started crying“ieee ieee”to welcome them.9._ led us to a low bamboo hut.10
5、._ was going to share the platform with Jenny and Jo.11._ softly talked to each other in their language Jo didnt understand.Jenny and JoKiakMukapKiakTombes familyComprehending1.What have you learned about the customs and lives of the people in Tombes village?Read Jos letter again and look at her pho
6、tos.Then complete the table below.Small,round,made of bamboo,grass roofs;mens huts have grass sticking out of the top of the roof,no windows(men and women have separate huts);small doorway,floor covered with fresh grassSweet potato,corn,greens,banana leaves,peanutsLarge extended families(“everyone s
7、eemed to be a relative of Tombes.”Not many-a few tin plates and cups,a couple of potsHot stones are placed in an oil drum,then vegetables are placed in the drum,covered with banana leaves and steamed.Tools are very basic e.g.a digging stick.(there is no machine-ry.)A new sleeping platform for the gu
8、ests,Kiak usually slept in her own hut.The villagers believe in evil spirits.They believe that leftover food attracts evil spirits so they dry it out in a can over the fire.Then the can is thrown out of the hut.2.Find or guess the reasons fro three facts according to the reading passage.Because they
9、 were frightened;they had never seen anything like it before.Because most of them would live all their lives as farmers.It was her way to welcome visitors to the village and she drew everyones attention to their arrival.Because it was a mans house?The tin can was used to dry out the leftover food,wh
10、ich might attract evil spirits,so the tin/can was thrown out of the hut.3.What do you think are the positive and negative things about lining in a village in Papua New Guinea.Give your reasons.The first one is done for you.P31T4.4.Why do you think Jo bacame a volunteer in PNG?Give as many possible r
11、easons as you can.Would you like to work as a volunteer in a poor area?Give reasons.4.Discuss the question.Because I want to share with others/The reason is that Homework 1.Read the passage again after class and find all the attributive clauses in it.2.Preparations:Learning about Language on page 32.Ex1,2&3
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