Module 6 Unit 4

Task

Helping poor children

Skills building 1:

listening for problems and causes

When you are listening to a news report,

you often need to think about the proble

ms being discussed and their causes. H

ere are some key expressions to listen f

or:

Skills building 1:

listening for problems and causes

Problems

As you can see…

The result is…

As a result,…

As I said earlier…

… and so…

This means…

A common problem is that…

Another problem is that…

CausesCauses

This is because… This is because…

Unfortunately, … Unfortunately, …

… … because…because…

… … because of…because of…

… … as … as …

Read the report in Part C and listen to the tape to complete the table in Part A and Part B.

Part A

Step 1:

finding out about problems and causes

Key points

Problems Causes

Water

need to be collected from river

no (1) _______

not boiled for long enough

very little wood

(2) _______ takes several days

engineer has to come from nearest town

Houses built of wood, not strong

no (3) ________

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PossPosse-ssioe-ssionsns

Few things likeFew things like

(4) _________(4) _________no moneyno money

a long way from a long way from nearest townnearest town

Have to walk six Have to walk six kilometers to catch kilometers to catch busbus

LightLightno lights, except no lights, except from small fire from small fire family cooks overfamily cooks over

No No (5) _______(5) _______

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wood for wood for firesfires

need to walk need to walk further and further further and further away from village away from village to fetch woodto fetch wood

Forest has been Forest has been (6)________(6)________

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(1) running water

(3) money

(4) furniture or clothes

(5) electricity

(6) cut down

Check the answers (Part A)

Part B

Key pointsKey points ProblemsProblems CausesCauses

School/Ed-School/Ed-ucationucation

school has no school has no roof or chairsroof or chairs

(1)_________(1)_________

Many Many children, children, especially especially girls, do not girls, do not ______________________

e.g. Have to help e.g. Have to help with farmingwith farming

Collect wood and Collect wood and fetch waterfetch water

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Key pointsKey points ProblemsProblems CausesCauses

School/Ed-School/Ed-ucationucation

only one only one teacherteacher

Not (3) Not (3) ____________________

FarmingFarming All farming is All farming is done (4) ____done (4) ____

no money for no money for equipmentequipment

difficult to difficult to raise animalsraise animals

Small amount of Small amount of (5) _____ available(5) _____ available

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Food/Food/DietDiet

Children have Children have (6)___________(6)___________

lack of meat and lack of meat and fresh waterfresh water

HealtHealth / Heh / Health calth careare

Children don’t (7)__Children don’t (7)__

Cannot concentrate Cannot concentrate on learning on learning

do not eat do not eat enough meat.enough meat.

Many of the Many of the children’s parents children’s parents have (8) have (8) ____________________

no doctors or no doctors or nurses and no nurses and no money to pay money to pay themthem

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FamilyFamily

Grandparents have to Grandparents have to (9)___________(9)___________

Parents died of Parents died of AIDSAIDS

bring up children is bring up children is difficult difficult

Grandparents are Grandparents are (10) _________(10) _________

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Check the answers (Part C)

A (2) repairing of pumps

B (3) enough money

Different sentences or sentence structures can be used to perform different functions. Some of the functions are :

Skills building 2:discussing in groups

making suggestions:

I think it would be a good idea to...

We could help by...

I would like to suggest that …

It would be a good idea if we could…

asking for opinions:

What do you think?

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Does anyone else have any other ideas?

Can you suggest anything else?

expressing agreement / disagreement:expressing agreement / disagreement:

I agree/disagree because…I agree/disagree because…

Ok, that sounds like a good idea.Ok, that sounds like a good idea.

That’s a great idea, but…That’s a great idea, but…

I’m sorry but I don’t think that would I’m sorry but I don’t think that would

work because …work because …

Unfortunately, I don’t think that willUnfortunately, I don’t think that will

work.work.

making conclusions:

In summary, our group has decided to…

In conclusion, we have decided to…

Step 2: discussing ways to help poor children:

Discussion

After learning about the problems of t

he children in northern Thailand, your

class is going to have a discussion ab

out what to do to help them.

Suggestions: ways to raise money sending old clothes, English books, etc., to the children paying for a child’s education.Use the language in skills building 2 tohelp you. One person from your groupshould report to the class.

A proposal should include :A proposal should include :

title title group membersgroup membersintroduction introduction proposal proposal benefits benefits

Skills building 3: writing a proposal

Language points

1. face 1) n. 面孔，表面 He was so ashamed that he hid his fa

ce in his hands. 2) v. 面对 The window faces the street. ---What does your house face? ---It faces south.

Language points

face to face with sth. 面临某种处境have the face to do sth. 恬不知耻做某事in the face of sth. 不顾；由于；因为lose face 丢脸

face the music face the music 承担批评；接受惩罚承担批评；接受惩罚

face up to sth. face up to sth. 敢于面对；敢于正视敢于面对；敢于正视

face-to-face adj. face-to-face adj. 面对面的面对面的

be faced with be faced with 面对；面临面对；面临

I was faced with a new problem.

You’ve been caught cheating -- now you

must face the music.

你的骗局已经揭穿 --- 这下子你得自食其果了。How can you have the face to ask for more

money when you do so little work?

2. break down2. break down (( 因机械，电力等故障）停止 运转因机械，电力等故障）停止 运转失灵，失效失灵，失效

The telephone system has broken dowThe telephone system has broken down.n.

Our car broke down on the motorway.Our car broke down on the motorway.

汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。

(2) 失败，崩溃， 瓦解

Negotiations between the two sides have broken down.

双方谈判已经破裂。(3) lose control of one’s feelings

感情失去控制

When she heard the bad news,When she heard the bad news,

she broke down and wept.she broke down and wept.

(4) (of sb.’s health) become very bad; colla(4) (of sb.’s health) become very bad; collapsepse (( 指某人健康状况）变的恶劣；垮指某人健康状况）变的恶劣；垮

His health broke down under the pressuHis health broke down under the pressure of work.re of work.

break into 闯入；打断；突 然……起来 break away 突然离开，逃走，脱离，废除

break forth 突然发出 break in 闯入，打断（谈话） break off 暂停，绝交

break out 发生，爆发 break through 突破 break up 散开，分解，解散，打断 break with sb. 与某人决裂 break one’s heart 使人心碎

His bedroom was broken into yesterday

evening.

Fire broke out during the night.

He broke off in the middle of a sentence.

The meeting broke up at eleven o’clock.

A shout of joy broke forth.