2018-2019学年高二英语人教版选修七课件：unit 4.pptVIP

Unit　4 Sharing Peace Corps volunteers 和平队成立于1961年，由美国总统约翰·肯尼迪发起，其主要使命是向发展中国家派遣志愿者，提供教育和其他领域的技术援助。和平队教师给第三世界国家带来的最有价值的贡献是扩大了教育范围，尤其是为数以十万计的穷孩子提供了上学的机会。 President John F．Kennedy began the program，Peace Corps，in 1961.The Peace Corps sends American volunteers to provide technical assistance in education and other areas in developing countries. Amanda Pease is one of almost 40 volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone. Ms Pease teaches science at Saint Joseph’s，a high school in eastern Sierra Leone.She studied chemical engineering at the University of California，Los Angeles.She decided to serve for two years in the Peace Corps after she finished her degree. “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