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them as I don’t speak much of the local
English dialect yet. But last weekend, another teacher Jenny, accompanied me to a remote village which is the homeof Tombe. We walked
They built a fire outside to cook dinner. Once the fire was going, they laid stones on it. When hot, they put kaukau(sweet potatoes), corn and
greens in an empty oil drum. And then covered the vegetables with banana leaves . We ate the
Unit4 Sharing
Jo，an Australian who worked as a volunteer teacher in PNG, which is a developing country located to the north of Australia. English ; farming;
the villagers’ life
• First reading ---Who are they
(Exercise2)
• Second reading--- What is Jo going to tell us
(Exercise3 )
• Third reading---Self-check (Exercise4)
tin can standing upside down on the grill over
the fire. After a while, it wa. Tombe told me they believe any
leftovers attract evil spirits in the night. So the
Scienceis my most challenging subject, because students have no concept of doing experiments. In fact, there is noequipment . One day, when we were doing our weekly chemistry experiment, the mixture was bubbling everywhere. After seeing this, the boys started jumping out of the windows, because they have never seen such thing before. Sometimes, I wonder whether learning chemistry is relevant to the students, most of whom will be going backto their village after Year 8 .
strange. Tombe’s father Mukap led us to his
house, a low bamboo withgrass sticking out
of the roof to show it’s a man’shouse. The
huts are round , dark inside, no windows and
• Besides knowledge ,what I got:
追求人生的美好!
我们的共同目标!
Who are mentioned (提及) in her letter?
First reading –who are mentioned
(Exercise2)
Scan(浏览) the letter
Second reading---what is Jo going to tell us(Exercise3 )
Skim(跳读) the letter
Para.2to Para3. School conditions and
teaching conditions
The school where I work is a bush school,
whose classrooms are made of bamboo and the
the doorway is
(one word). Besides
fireplace in the center, I only could see one
broom , a few tin plates and cups, and a couple
of jars .
Para 6 to Para 8 Local diet and belief
her school life the villagers’ life
Cherish what we have Offer our little love
Roses given, fragrance in hand
Self-summary
• The knowledge that I learnt :
her school life
Para 4 to Para 5 Her first visit to Tombe’s home
You ask me about the local people in PNG. Well, it’s quite difficultto communicate with
roofs of grass . I walk to school down a muddy
track in a few minutes; however, it will take
many students sometimes up to two hours to get
to school. The students here are very
delicious food inside the hut. Even though I couldn’t join in the conversation, I enjoyed listening to the family softly talking to each other. When we finished the dinner, they put a
food needed to be dried up in the can and then
threw it out. Otherwise, they don’t waastneything.
The next morning we left the village after
many
goodabnydes hfairnmdshakes.
for two and a half hours to get there--- first up a mountain to a steep path to the valleybelow.
When we arrived, Tombe’s mother Kiak
welcomed us by crying“ieee, ieee”. It’s really
,
such as you can hear lots of good mornings
from them. The teaching condition here is very
poor. There is no electricity or water and even
no textbooks .
Although my muscles were aching and my
knees shaking , I still fell happily into bed that
evening. Spending such a day with Tombe’s
family is really a privilege to me.