Unit4 Sharing

The Second Period Speaking

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

in the future, share ... with ..., social welfare programme, afford, sponsor, donate, cover, primary school, participate in

b. 功能句式

   Why would you...?

   How could you do that?

   Because I want to share with others ...

   First, find some information through...

   The reason is that ... Then ... Next ... Finally...

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to express logical relations with the target language.

Enable the students to tell about a person’s experiences using time expressions.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to express logical relations with the target language.

Help the students learn how to use time expressions to tell about a person’s experiences.

Teaching important and difficult points教学重难点

Help the students learn to list reasons for an idea and also learn how to express and support an idea in a logical way.

Teaching methods教学方法

Discussing and speaking.

Teaching aids教具准备

A computer and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方法

Step I Revision

T: Good morning/afternoon, boys and girls! Please let me check your LISTENING TASK on Pages 75-76 first.

Show the answers on the Bb or a screen and help the students check the answers.

Step Ⅱ Discussion

T: In the last period, we listened to the story about Dr Mary Murray. She worked for MSF and helped people in poor areas as a volunteer. Now I have two topics for you to discuss. First one: Do you think whether people like Dr Mary Murray and Professor Fred Hollows should help those in poorer areas? Give your reasons.

Let the students work in groups and have a discussion. Then ask some of them to present their opinions and reasons.

Sa: In my opinion, Dr Mary Murray and Professor Fred Hollows should help those in poorer areas. And I would like to be a volunteer if possible. The reason is that we, either poor or rich, live on the same planet. Just as John F. Kennedy said in his Inaugural Address, “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

Sb: Humanism or humanitarianism is a necessary quality for us human beings. We should share what we have and help those who are badly in need of help. I will become a volunteer if time permits. Actually I often help those who need help. For example, every Sunday, I take my neighbour, a disabled girl, to the park to refresh herself. And we talk a lot, and I think I help her a lot, which makes me very happy.

Sc: I agree with them, but I think the most important thing is that we should try to help the poor to be independent instead of just giving them food and clothes.

Sd: I have a different idea. It’s not wrong to help the poor. But according to my experience, helping the poor is not always a pleasant experience.

Se: I can’t agree more. I once read an article about such kind of things. The “poor” are not always so noble, and they are the hardest to deal with. People who deal with the poor can tell a hundred stories about how they waste money and opportunities. You bring food to their home and notice a large-screen TV. You give them money and they buy groceries at the nearby convenience store (where prices are very high). You have their car fixed and find out it is a Buick Skylark. Whenever you visit them, they are watching TV.

Sf: Maybe what you said is true. However, it is not right to let the poor fight alone with their many problems coming from poverty. Unless we do something about poverty, the problems will remain.

T: Excellent. I do hope that everyone can help those who need help. Second topic: Would you like to work as a volunteer like Dr Mary Murray and Professor Fred Hollows in the future? Where would you like to go? Why would you like to go there? What skills would you share there? ...  

After the students have shared their ideas with each other, ask several of them to tell the class about their ideas without looking at the chart.

Sample description of ideas:

Sa: If I’m a volunteer, I’d like to go to the western part of our country. Because many people there can’t get access to clean drinking water, and quite a few develop strange diseases. I think I can help them. I know how to make water clean for them. And from my grandfather, I learned to treat some diseases with Chinese medicine. I would like to spend as many days or months as possible to help them if possible. I will work as a doctor to cure diseases. Of course, I will learn more traditional methods to treat different diseases.

Sb: If I’m a volunteer, I’d like to go to Africa. Because many people there are too poor to get formal education. Just because of that, many suffer from AIDS or other contagious diseases. I’d like to share my skills of being a teacher and teach them. If possible, I will work there for a year and then come back to complete my education. And then I will return to the place to work again. In this way, I can help them get the latest information about the world and about science and technology. Of course, I can also get to know Africa and African people better, in order to help them help themselves. Because I know “God helps those who help themselves.”

Sc: I will go to the hospital near my community. There are a lot of disabled people who have no one to help them. They are lonely and sad. I would like to talk with them, read to them, and even sing with them. In this way, I can help them get enough courage for their future life. I will go there every Sunday, and if possible, I will persuade my friends to go there with me. Then more and more people will offer help, and more and more disabled people will get help. I just want to be a volunteer, which does not need any special skills. I will learn how take care of the elder and the sick.

T: I appreciate your ideas. We need love, and those who are sick and poor need love even badly. We are living a happy life, why can’t we share the happiness with others? I hope your ideas will be realized one day.

Step Ⅲ Speaking task

T: I’m really very happy that you are all willing to help others. And I am sure you will become volunteers in the future. In order to be good volunteers, what should we do now?

Ss: Study hard to learn more skills.

T: Very good. But do you know that in our country there are still a lot of children who can’t go to school? And there is a project which aims to help them. What is it?

Ss: Project Hope.

T: Yes, you are right. I think you all know about this great project. Who in our class has ever sponsored a child or is sponsoring a child from a poor area? Have your parents, relatives or friends sponsored a child through Project Hope?

Perhaps some students did. If so, encourage them to talk more about how they did it and their reasons of doing so.

T: Most of you didn’t do that. I know that’s because you are not able to do that for the moment. So when you grow up and get a job, would you like to participate in Project Hope by sponsoring a child from a poor area? Work in pairs and discuss it. You need to give reasons for your answer. If you decided to sponsor a child, how would you do it? The expressions below may be useful in your discussion.

Show the following expressions on the screen.

Why would you...?

Because I want to share with others ...

The reason is that ...  Then ...  Next ...  Finally...

How could you do that?

First, find some information through...

A sample discussion:

Sb: I would like to sponsor a child from a poor area through Project Hope.

Sa: Why would you like to do that?

Sb: Because I think school education is very important for a person, especially those in poor areas. If they fail to receive education, they will get poorer and poorer. Don’t you know the saying that “knowledge changes fate”?

Sa: Sure I know that. But how could you do that?

Sb: First, find some information through newspapers and Internet, and get in touch with some children. After knowing their conditions, we can do something to help. For example, if they can’t afford the money to go to school or don’t have books and schoolbags, we can use our pocket money to help them.

Sc: But how could you know that you are sponsoring the right child who really needs help?

Sd: Why don’t we get in touch with China Youth Development Foundation first, and through it we can get enough information.

Se: I have a good idea. We can raise money for Project Hope. First, we can make a plan for raising money. We can design a slogan “Donate for Project Hope, help children who can’t go to school”. Then, we print some leaflets, telling people about Project Hope. Next, we go to parks on Sundays, and collect money for Project Hope. I’m sure we will collect a lot of money for Project Hope. Finally, we can mail the money to China Youth Development Foundation.  

Step Ⅳ Homework

1. Do TALKING on Page 70. Let the students work in groups and make a plan for their CCC on the kinds of organizations they would like to raise money for, how they would raise the money, the organizations they would like to give time to and the schedule.

A sample plan:

As far as we know, there are many kinds of Chinese organizations that need people’s donation, for example: China Charity is the country’s largest charitable organization: The China Charity Federation (CCF); Red Cross Society; Song Ching Ling Foundation; China’s Welfare Homes for Children; Project Hope.

We would post a poster on the school bulletin board, telling the students that many children are suffering from diseases because they don’t have money for medicine and that many children can’t go to school because of poverty. We should try our best to help them, making the best of our pocket money. We would even get some pictures or videos about the poor. In this way, we can raise money for these organizations. Of course, we can also get help from local TV stations and newspapers, which can reach a wide range of audience and readers.

We would like to give our time to: 1. The local Orphanage 2. Home for Senior Citizens 3. Hospitals.

During the summer holidays and winter holidays, we would like to spend time talking with the lonely senior citizens and taking care of them. After the Spring Festival, we would take advantage of the chance to raise money for Project Hope or other organizations. If possible, we would like to visit the orphans when we are free. But, what a pity, we usually have lessons on weekends, even on Sundays. Nevertheless, we will try our best to help.

2. Google for information about PNG.

3. Preview the reading passage on Page 29.