【创新方案】2017-2018学年高中英语人教版选修7课件：Unit 4 Section Ⅰ Warming Up Reading — Pre-reading.pptVIP

“I was trying to decide between going the academic (学术的) route and doing a postdoctoral (博士后) degree and go into industry, and then I had been doing some volunteer work and the idea was always floating around，” she says. Peace Corps volunteers left Sierra Leone in 1994 because of civil war. But now they are back. Science teachers are in especially short supply. Efforts in Sierra Leone to get more children through primary school have led to crowded high schools. Amanda Pease is the only chemistry and physics teacher at her school. She says she has to work hard to get students more interested in learning, as she thought they would be. “I had sort of a romantic idea coming to a developing country where everyone is super motivated but just does not have opportunities, and that is not exactly how it is. Not that I am saying the opportunities are so great, because of course there are limited opportunities if you compare it to America, but I think one of the biggest things is literally just motivation，” she says. What she loves best about her experience, she says, is the magical moment when students understand a chemical process or ask her for more exercises. More than 8,000 Peace Corps volunteers are currently serving around the world. Volunteers become part of the community where they work and live. 1．Look at the following pictures and fill in the blanks. 2．What do the volunteers do? 3．The picture is the sign for Chinese Young Volunteers Association. Now you can try your best to match the meaning of each part to the divided signs. ①The heart stands for　　 A．help ②The hand stands for B．love and care ③The dove stands for C．peace ④The letter “Y” stands for D．young 答案：①～④　BACD 1．Read the text quickly and complete the main idea of it. The text is a letter written by Jo, a young volunteer who teaches in a(n) ________ school in a poor mountainous village.She writes of her experiences as a teacher and her _