Unit 4 Sharing
Period 1 Reading
A letter home
Step one Skimming
1．Read the text quickly and complete the main idea of it.
The text is a letter written by Jo, a young _______ who teaches in a(n) ________ school in a poor mountainous village. It is about her experience as a ________ and her first _______ to a village which is the home of _________.
2．Read the text and divide it into four parts, then match the main idea with each part. Part 1 (Para._____ ) A. Jo and Jenny visited Tombe's home in the village. Part 2 (Para.______) B. Closing of the letter.
Part 3 (Para.______) C. The school where Jo worked and Jo's work at school. Part 4 (Para.______ ) D. Opening of the letter and introduction to what will be talked about in the passage. Step two Scanning
1. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Jo's ●It's a(n)_____school—the classrooms are made of_____and high the roofs of _________. school ●There's no______or _____ and we don't have any ________. Jo's first Time to get there ●__________________hours of walking. visit to Description of the house ●A low _______ hut with grass _______of the roof
a village ●No ___________. ●_________ doorway ●________ covered with fresh grass. ●A newly made_______for Jenny and me to sleep on ______the house ●A(n)________in the_____of the hut near the doorway ●A few tin plates and cups and______jars. ●Mukap________stones on the fire, and Outside the house he_______them in an empty oil drum with kao kau, corn and greens. ●He then _____the vegetables with banana leaves and left them to _______. The Beliefs of villagers villagers believe that any ________attract ___________in the night so the food is ____________in the can and the can is then _______________the hut. 2. Read the text and then choose the best answers. ①Jo wrote the letter to her friend to ________.
A．encourage her friend to come to Papua New Guinea B．share some photos she took in Papua New Guinea C．describe her work experience in Papua New Guinea
D．introduce Papua New Guinea to her friend
②The boys jumped out of the windows in the chemistry class because they________. A．didn't like doing chemistry experiments B．were frightened by the bubbling mixture C．wanted to ask someone else for help D．couldn't stand the smell of the mixture
③Why does Jo wonder how relevant chemistry is to the kids? A．Because she thinks chemistry is too difficult to learn. B. Because she thinks chemistry may make little difference to the kids' life.
C．Because the kinds there hardly come across anything of chemistry. D．Because she thinks chemistry useless. ④What can we learn about the school? ______ A．It is located in a bush. B．Its buildings are round. C．It is very dark inside.
D．It is far from most students' homes.
⑤Why did Tombe throw the leftover food out of the hut? A．He disliked the leftover food. B．It was too dry to eat.
C．He believed leftovers attracted evil spirits. D．He always wasted food.
3. True or false.
①The classrooms are made from bricks and the roofs from grass. ____ ②It always takes the boys only a few minutes to get to the school. ____ ③Science is the most challenging subject for Jo. _____
④When Jo and Jean arrived at the village, they shook hands with all the villagers. ___ ⑤Tombe threw out the tin can because it’s very dirty. _____ 4. Answer the following questions.
①Why did Jo include some photos in the letter?
____________________________________________________________________. ②What’s the symbol of man’s house，according to the passage?
____________________________________________________________________. ③Why was science the most challenging subject for Jo?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. 重点短语
1．______________收到……来信 2．______________不久前的一天
3．______________干透；(使浸水的事物)完全变干 4．______________(河流或水井等)干涸 5. ______________在困难中；在危机中 6. _____________与……有关系/密切相关
7．to be honest______________ 8．make a fire______________ 9．stick out______________ 10．come across______________ 11．(be)________to do极想；渴望 12. ________ in 参加；参与 13. __________调节，适应
14._______________________分配某物给某人 15. ___________________ 捐赠某物给某人 16.________________ 和某人共享某物 17.________________ 说实在的 用下面词组的适当形式完成下列句子。
hear from, (be) dying to, come across, make no difference, stick out, dry up, participate in
1. The papers were ______________ of his pocket.
2. Everyone in the class is expected to ______________ the discussion. 3. I _______________ see the exhibit.
4. He has left the paint to _______________.
5. When they did not _______________ her, they feared the worst. 6. Whether you go or not ___________________ to me. 7. The steam ______________ during the hot summer.
8. I ____________ an old school friend in Oxford Street this morning.
dry out,
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