Unit 4 Sharing
3.your friends? repair their computers. help them with the lessons. do shopping with them.
4.people in your community? be a coach of the football lovers. sing and dance for the elders. help my neighbours carry things home.
5.people outside your community? plant trees. help people with disabilities. return the wallet to the owner.
2.make a class list of the different things your classmates do for each of the groups on the survey form.
3.discuss whether someone who helps the groups on the survey form can be called a “volunteer”.
t:which one can be called a volunteer?or what kind of things do volunteers do?
only those who work not for rewards—especially money and materials,and are not forced to do so are volunteers.and not only the person but also the society and the environment benefit from it.for example,dr mary murray was a volunteer working for medecins sans frontieres(msf).
step 2 pre-listening
now turn to page 35,read exercises 1 and 2 in listening and speaking,and predict what you will hear in the listening material.you can also discuss with your partner.
s1:now jennifer wells is interviewing dr mary murray about what has happened in mary's life.
s2:she once worked in a clinic in malawi and sudan.
s3:malawi and sudan are developing countries.
s4:many children died when she worked in malawi.
s5:conditions in the clinics in the sudan were very terrible and challenging.
s6:medecins sans frontieres(msf)is an organization that provides free medical care to children in poor countries.
t:you see,before listening to the interview,you can get much information,if you study the questions carefully.now let's listen to the interview.please pay attention to the time expressions because they use time expressions to talk about mary's life.and then number them in the order you hear them.
______ in the future ______ during the 1980s
______ for a couple of months ______over the last few years
______ for a further six months ______ in two weeks' time
step 3 listening
1.(the teacher plays the tape and the students listen to it.)
t:now let's check the answers of exercise 1.
keys:__4__ in the future __1__ during the 1980s
__2__ for a couple of months __3__ over the last few years
__6__ for a further six months __5__ in two weeks' time
2.t:listen again.when you are listening,you can make notes of mary's experiences in the table below.and share your notes with your partner and then with other groups.
time place event