Unit 4 Sharing The sign of United Nations

Unit 4 Sharing The sign of United Nations Volunteer in China ( 中国青年志愿者)

Volunteer What kind of person can be called “ volunteer”? People who help others in their community or outside their community would be called volunteers. However, they would not be called volunteers if they help their parents, other relatives or friends.

Jo is a volunteer teacher in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Match the right main idea of each part. Part 1 (Para. 1) Part 2 (Para. 2 -3) Part 3 (Para. 48) Part 4 (Para. 9) A The condition of the school B The end of the letter. C I am glad to receive Rosemary’s letter and I’ve included some photos. D How I get to know the local people

Part 1 a fortnight 1. The letter took ______ to arrive. 2. Why did Jo send Rosemary some photos? Because she was dying to hear all about Jo’s life there and the photos would help her picture the place.

Part 2 Questions & Answers 1. Are the boys friendly to Jo? How do you know? are lots of “good mornings” for me from Yes. There the boys. 2. Why is Science the mostno concept of doing The students have challenging subject for Jo? experiments, and there is no equipment. 3. Why did the boys start jumping out of the windows? never come across anything like The boy had that before.

bush the • It’s a(n) ____ school — the school classrooms are made of grass ____ and the roofs of _____. bamboo electricity or water • There’s no ________ and even no ______. textbooks • The school is far away from the students’ home. Many of them a long way have walked ______.

Table 1 (about the school) Conditions Classrooms (Equipped or not) Students’ future Electricity and water (Y/N) Our school poor The school Equipped Go to college or work Yes Textbook (Y/N) Yes Chemistry experiments (Many/few) Many Not equipped Return to the villages No No Few

Part 3 Main ideas match maker Part 3 (Para. 4 -8) How I get to know the local people Para. 4 Para. 5 Para. 6 Para. 7 Para. 8 C E A D B A. Mukap did some cooking in a special way. B. I left and I felt privileged C. My first visit to a village. D. A strange custom about the leftover food. E. I saw the poor condition of the room.

Read Paragraph 4 -5 and finish the chart Family relationships Everyone seemed to be a relative of ____ Tombe’s. low bamboo Mukap’s house is a _______ hut sticking out of the roof Type of houses with grass ____________. No ______, the doorway was just windows get through big enough to _______ Fresh grass had been laid on the floor. Sleeping A newly madeplatform for Jenny and ____ arrangements me to sleep on. Mukap and Tombe were to sleep on ______. small beds Possessions I could only see one _______, a few broom tin plates and cups __________and a couple of jars ____.

Read Paragraph 6 -8 and finish the chart Cooking methods Diet Hot stones are placed in an empty _____ with vegetables, then the oil drum vegetables are covered with _________ and left to _______. banana leaves steam sweet potato corns _______, ____ and greens. The villagers believe that leftovers attract ____ evil spirits in the night, so the Beliefs food is _____ in the can and dried up _____ out of the hut. thrown privilege Jo’s feeling It was such a _____ to have spent a day with Tombe’s family.

Discussion: Discuss with your partners and list the positive and negative things about living in a poor village. Positive aspects Negative aspects 1. Children value education 1. No running water or electricity 2. Do not have to rely on outside sources for food 3. Close relation between each other 4. People can live without many possessions 2. Have no roads to connect with outside world 3. Have to walk a long way to attend school 4. There might not be any medical services close by

Summary Jo who worked as a volunteer teacher in PNG. Her high school was a bush school, making of bamboo and made grass. There was no electricity or water and even no textbooks neither! either It was difficult for Jo to know local people as she didn’t say much of the local English dialect. But she and speak Jenny did visited a village is the home of Tombe. All the ∧ visit which villagers welcomed them and they spent a day stay there. staying Mukap cooked some food, which smelled deliciously. delicious They slept on a newly made platform in night. The next at morning they left for the village.