Unit 7 International Charities
Welcome to the unit
Teaching aim:
1. To understand the world a few big charity.
2. Discuss how to better help people in poor areas.
Teaching steps:
Step 1 Warming up
Have you ever done anything for charities? Were you happy to help charities?
What charities do you want to help?
Let’s learn the different charities in China!
Save China’s Tigers 拯救中国虎
Project Hope 希望工程
Project Green Hope 绿色希望工程
Spring Bud Project 春蕾计划
What will you do for the charities?
Step 2 Comic strip
1) Look at the picture and listen to the tape, then answer the questions.
What are Eddie and Hobo doing?
Are they ready to help the charity?
2) Listen to the tape with the following questions.
What is needed for charity?
What does Hobo want Eddie to do?
What does Eddie want to do first? Why?
How far will they go?
3) Watch the flash and answer the question.
What is needed for charity?
What does Hobo want Eddie to do?
What does Eddie want to do first? Why?
How far will they go?
Keys: More money is need for charity.
He wants Eddie to donate his pocket money.
He wants to have lunch first because he is too weak to walk any further.
They only have five kilometres left.
4) Complete the following passage.
Hobo hears that charity n______ money. He wants to donate Eddie’s p______ money to charity. But Eddie thinks it is lunch t____ because it’s 12 o’clock.
He wants to have l_____ first. He pretends（假装） that he is too w_____ to walk any f_________. Finally, Hobo encourages (鼓励） Eddie they only have five k_________ left.
Keys: needs; pocket; time; lunch; weak; further; kilometres
Step 3 Pair work
Work in pairs and read the conversation between Eddie and Hobo. You can add your own ideas.
Step 4 Useful phrases
1. You have some pocket money left.
leave- left-left
left (adj.) 剩下的，剩余的，没有用完的
我只剩下一张票了。
I have only one ticke left.
冰箱里什么也没有剩下。
There is nothing left in the fridge.
leave for … 前往 leave 忘带，落在…
2. I’m too weak to walk any further.
我太虚弱了，走不动了。
“too…to…”结构表示“太……而不 能……”， 副词后接形容词或副词的原形，其后再接动词不定式。
e.g. She is too young to go to school.
她太小了不能上学。
▶但是当句子的主语与不定式的主语不一致时，常需在不定式前补加一个介词短语for sb.，即：too…for sb. to do sth.
e.g. The problem is too difficult for me to work out. 对我来说这个问题太难解决了。
▶ “too…to…”结构可以转化为 “so…that…”结构：
e.g. He is too short to reach the apple. →
He is so short that he can’t reach the apple. 他太矮了没法够到苹果。
句中的further是far的比较级，这里是副词，意思是“较远，更远”。
e.g. Can you stand a bit further away?你能不能稍微站的远一点？
Step 5 Presentation
What do you think people in poor areas need most?
What can we do for people?
If Hobo and Eddie want to help people from other countries, what charities should they donate money to?
What international charities do you know about?
ORBIS 奥比斯
How does this charity work?
It works to help the blind people in poor areas. It is best known for its Flying Eye Hospital.
WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature 世界自然基金会
How does this charity work?
The groups focuses on protecting forests, rivers, oceans and so on.
Oxfam 乐施会
How does this charity work?
It works in more than 90 countries to help poor people.
UNICEF 联合国儿童基金会
How does this charity work?
It provides food and health care to children in developing countries.
Step 6 Listen and make the conversation
Mr Wu is asking the students about international charities. Listen to the tape and tell me how UNICEF helps people.
Read the conversation after the tape. Then make a dialogue use the conversation as a model.
Step 7 Useful phrases
It provides basic education for children in poor areas.
它为贫困地区的孩子提供基础教育。
provide sth for sb 为某人提供某物=provide sb with sth
e.g. I am happy that you have provided so many interesting books for us.
= I am happy that you have provided us with so many interesting books.
我很高兴你为我们提供了这么多有趣的书。
Step 8 Exercises
Translate the following phrases
1. 零花钱 2. 吃一顿丰盛的午餐
3. 该是……的时间了。 4. 太虚弱不能行走
5. 一些国际的慈善 6. 基础的教育
7. 平等的权利 8. 为某人提供某物
9. 阻止一些严重疾病的扩散
Keys: pocket money have a big lunch It’s time for… too weak to walk
some international charities basic education equal rights
provide sth for sb/ provide sb with sth prevent the spread of some serious diseases
根据句意及首字母提示完成单词。
1. Jim has some p_____ money that his parents gave, so he wants to buy a new CD.
2. China is one of the i___________ (国际的) countries in the world.
3. He feels so w____ that he can’t stand up.
4. It also works to prevent the s_________ (扩散)of some serious diseases.
Keys: pocket; international; weak; spread
1. __________ provides food, health and education for children.
2. __________helps blind people in poor areas by plane.
3. __________helps people in poor countries.
4. _______ protects the environment and wild animals.
Keys: UNICE ORBIS Oxfam WWF
Step 9 Homework
1. Remember the names of the charities.
2. Know the purposes of these charities.
3. Recite the dialogue.
4. Remember the main phrases.
Reading I
Teaching aims:
1. Read the article, to understand the status of the ORBIS doctor's job.
2. Context guessing meaning from context.
Step 1 Review
Translate phrases and sentences.
1. 剩下一些零花钱 2. 太虚弱以至于不能走的更远
3. 吃一顿丰盛的午餐 4. 国际慈善机构
Step 2 Lead-in
Which charity can help them?
A. ORBIS B. Oxfam C. Spring Bud Project
Problem 1: ___________________
Nancy is a 12-year-old girl. She lives in a poor family in a far-away village. She has two younger sisters and a little brother. Her family is so poor that she has to work on the farm all day.
Problem 2: _______
The factory he has worked bankrupted (破产) last month. He and his workmates lost their jobs and they have less money to support their families.
Problem 3: _______
Mrs. Black has been blind since she was sixty years old. Now ten years has passed, she still can’t see anything because she is very poor and has no enough money to go to hospital.
Step 3 Presentation new words
interviewer n. 采访者
blindness n. 失明
mostly adv. 主要的，大部分的
case n. 案例，病例
cure vt. 治愈
medical adj. 医学的，医疗的
treatment n. 治疗
patient n. 病人
afford vt. 买得起，能做
go to hospital 去看病
go abroad 在飞机(船，火车)上
operate vi. 做手术
proud adj. 自豪的，骄傲的
reader n. 读者
medicine n. 医学，药
develop v. 发展，加强
treat vt. 治疗，处理
carry on 继续开展，继续下去
Step 4 Watch a video about ORBIS
Why is there a plane in the logo?
Because ORBIS workers take a plane to visit poor countries.
The plane is called a flying eye hospital. (飞行眼科医院)
Information about ORBIS
ORBIS is a charity that helps blind people. Most eye problems can be cured or prevented. However, many people can’t afford to go to hospital. The doctors on the ORBIS plane fly to poor areas to treat people with eye problems and teach local doctors and nurses new skills. After learning from the ORBIS doctors, they can help more people.
Step 5 Use pictures to talk about some important words.
Amy wants to tell Daniel about Dr Ma and what he does, but she does not know the meanings of some words in the interview. Help her match the words on the left with the meanings on the right. Write the correct letters in the blanks.
1. blindness 2. cure 3. patient 4. afford 5. on board 6. operate
- cut a person’s body open to take out or repair a part
- in or on a plane, ship, train, etc.
- make an illness go away
- have enough money to pay for something
- a person who is ill, especially in hospital
- the condition of being unable to see
Step 6 Do some exercises
Skim and write T or F:
- All the eye problems can be cured or prevented.
- Many people can’t afford to go to hospital.
- The plane is used as a hospital and teaching centre.
- ORBIS is a business that helps blind people.
- Local doctors and nurses can help people in poor areas after learning from ORBIS doctors.
Step 7 Read and answer some questions.
Lines 1-6
1. How many people does blindness affect around the world? Where are they mostly from?
2. How many sick people can be cured or prevented?
3. Why don’t some people receive medical treatment?
Lines 10-26
1. Why don’t ORBIS doctors work in a hospital?
2. How many operations did Dr Ma perform during his last visit?
3. Is the plane only a place to perform operations?
Step 8 Can you divide the passage?
1. (Line 1-6) something about blindness
2. (Line 7-15) the work of ORBIS
3. (Line 16-20) Dr Ma’s work and his feeling
4. (Line 21-26) Dr Ma’s hope