• As Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations said “ … each contribution- no matter how small- can help make a difference.”
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Have you ever helped your parents, or other relatives, or your friends, or people in your community, or people outside
your community?
Who would be called “ volunteers”?
Would you be called a “ 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.
The important factorsThe important factors
1. 1. NNot for rewardsot for rewards – esp. money – esp. money
andand materials materials
2. 2. VolunteerVolunteer – not forced to do so – not forced to do so
3. 3. Not only Not only the personthe person but also but also the the
societysociety and and the environmentthe environment
benefit from itbenefit from it
What is a volunteer?
What does the sign remind you of?A hand: _________________
A heart:_________________A dove: _________________A letter:_________________
helplove and carepeaceY stand for youth
Do you know the sign for volunteers?
There are many volunteers working
in different mountainous areas or
developing countries, among which
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one.
What do you know about Papua What do you know about Papua New Guinea?New Guinea?
Jo was a volunteer who worked in PNG for two years.
The following photos were taken by Jo in PNG. Look at the photos and answer the questions.
1 My class
2 Students putting new grass on classroom roofs
3 Building a new science lab
What kind of students were in her class?Teenage boys. They are poorly dressed.
• Describe the classrooms.The classrooms are small. They have no windows. They are made of wood and bamboo and have grass roofs.
View of the village from the ridge 山脊
Village hut
stick out
doorway
Jo took many photos of a visit to a student's village. Let’s look at the pictures. Then please say something about the village.
The village is very small. It is by a river at the bottom of a valley. It has steep slopes all around it. The village huts are small. They have no windows. They are made of wood and bamboo and have grass roofs.
These photos are about Tombe’s (Tombe is Jo’s student.) family and their life. From these photos,
what can you say about life in the village?
The villagers mainly live on agriculture. From their cooking methods we can learn that they are living a very simple and poor life.
____Para 1____Para 2____Para 3____Para 4____Para 5____Para 6____Para 7____Para 8____Para 9 I. The purpose of the letter
A. What Jo’s school is like
G Poor school conditions
B. Jo’s first visit to a village
F. What the hut was like outside and inside
C. How the villagers cooked their meals
D. Jo said goodbye to the villagers E. The way to deal with leftover food
H. The ending of the letter
Skimming
IA
GBFCEDH
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Para 6
Para 7
Para 8
Para 9
The purpose of the letter
What Jo’s school is like
Poor school conditions
Jo’s first visit to a village
What the hut was
How the villagers cooked their meals
The way to deal with leftover food
Jo said goodbye to the villagers
The ending of the letter
Part 1
Part 2 The introduction of the school
Part 3 A visit to a local village
Part 1
1. _______ is a young Australian women. 2. _________ was dying to hear all about Jo’s life in Papua New Guinea. 3. _________ walked a long way to get to the school. 4. __________________didn’t have any textbooks. 5. _______________ became a lot more imaginative when teaching.
JoRosemary
The boys
The boys and Jo
Jo and her students
Scanning for detailed information
6. _________ started jumping out of the windows during a chemistry experiment. 7. _____________ 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. _________ was going to share the platform with Jenny and Jo. 11. ____________ softly talked to each other in their language Jo didn’t understand.
The boys
Jenny and Jo
Kiak
Mucap Kiak
Tombe’s family
What have you learned about the customs and lives of the people in Tombe’s village? Read Jo's letter again and look at her photos. Then complete the table below.
Types of houses Diet
Family relationship
Possessions
cooking methods agriculture
sleeping arrangements
beliefs
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Types of houses
Diet
Small, round, made of bamboo, grass roofs; men’s 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 grass
Sweet potato, corn, greens, banana leaves, peanuts
Family relation-
ship
Posse-ssions
Large extended families (“everyone seemed to be a relative of Tombe’s.”
Not many-a few tin plates and cups, a couple of pots
Cooking methods Agricul-
ture
Hot 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.)
Sleeping arrange-ments
Beliefs A new sleeping platform for the guests, 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.
Find or guess the reasons for three facts according to the reading passage.
Facts ReasonThe boys jumped out of the windows in the science lesson.Jo wondered how relevant chemistry was to the boys.Tombe’s mother cried “ieee ieee” when she saw Jo.There were no windows in Mukap’s hut.The tin can was standing upside down on the grill.
Post-reading
Facts Reason
The boys jumped out of the windows in the science lesson.
Jo wondered how relevant chemistry was to the boys.
Tombe’s mother cried “ieee ieee” when she saw Jo.
Because they 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 everyone’s attention to their arrival.
Facts Reason
There were no windows in Mukap’s hut.
The tin can was standing upside down on the grill.
Because it was a man’s house?
The tin can was used to dry out the leftover food, which might attract evil spirits, so the tin/can was thrown out of the hut.
Discussion
• 1 . Why do you think Jo became a volunteer in PNG?
• 2 . Would you like to work as a volunteer in a poor area ? Give reasons.
Expressions•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