Unit 4 Sharing

Using Language

Exercise One:

Please read aloud the passage after listening to the example.

In Africa, severe food shortages have affected eighteen million people in nine Sahel countries this year. This was the third severe food crisis in four years in the area bordering the Sahara. How can the Sahel break its cycle of food insecurity? Aid workers are asking that question as this year's emergency eases. David Gressly is the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator for the Sahel.

Mr. Gressly says during a crisis, families eat just one or two meals a day, take their children out of school, sell their animals and go into debt. These actions put them at greater risk in a future crisis. In fact, many of the families affected by this year's food crisis had yet to recover from the earlier ones.

Exercise Two:

Listen to the tapescript twice and then finish the tasks according to each requirement.

Task 1 : Ask the question in English

“ 你认为目录里的礼物有意义吗？”

Do you think the gifts in the catalogue meaningful / make sense?

Task 2 : Ask the question in English “ 购买礼物的人会收到什么 ?”

What would the one who buys the gift receive?

Task 3 : Answer the question in English

“Is the gift something your loved one keeps?”

No, it isn’t.

Task 4 : Answer the question in English

“Who will receive/ keep the gift? ”

People in need.

Task 5: Answer the question in English “What’s the usage of the card? ”

It can be used for any special occasion.

Suppose you and your classmates have collected 1,800 dollars to help people in a poor village of Papua New Guinea. Work as groups of four to decide which gifts you would like to buy from the catalogue mentioned in the text. Please give at least two reasons for your answers.

Exercise Three: Discussion

Exercise Four:

Please retell the content of the passage in your own words after listening.

卡片大意： 我以你的名义从该机构所买了一份礼物，它将会使一部分穷人有机会得到农业知识的培训以及农业器材的援助。[Key words]

purchase vt. 购买

agricultural adj. 农业的

provide vt. 提供

seed n. 种子

Version:

I have bought a gift in the name of you to help the poor people of underdeveloped countries in farming. I bought the gift from the World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue. It aims at providing people with agricultural knowledge and equipment, which will make a great difference to their lives, such as

ridding them of illness and hunger.

Thank you!