重庆大学版高一 (2)

Unit 4

重庆大学版高一 (2)

Unit 4

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Getting ready Look at the following pictures and

discuss what you think of ‘glad he

lps person’.

1. Look at the following pictures and

try to describe them. Tell your

partner if you have had a similar

experience.

Please use three words to describe

the pictures and your feelings.

2. What do you think “smile”, “love”,

“help” mean in everyday life?

Is there anything related among them?

Work with your partner to write two or

three sentences by using three words.

3. Guess which of the following sentences

about Mother Teresa is NOT true.

1) Mother Teresa was an Albanian

Roman Catholic nun with Indian

citizenship. ( )

2) For over 40 years she helped and

served the poor, sick, orphaned, and

dying. ( )

T

F

3) By the 1970s she was internationally

famed as humanitarian. ( )

4) She won the Nobel Peace Prize in

1979. ( )

5) She was a millionaire. ( )

T

T F

Reading

Group work: discuss the three questions.

1. Are most people today ready to help others when they are in trouble?2. Is it necessary for our society to form an organization to give help to those who need it?3. Are you sure you can always get help from others when you need it?

Mother Teresa 特蕾莎修女 (Mother Ter

esa,1910-1997)，印度著名的慈善家，印度天主教仁爱传教会创始人，在世界范围内建立了一个庞大的慈善机构网，赢得了国际社会的广泛尊敬。 1979年被授予诺贝尔和平奖。

本文所选即其在领取该奖项时的演讲辞，语言简洁质朴而感人至深。诺贝尔奖领奖台上响起的声音往往都是文采飞扬、热烈、激昂。而特雷莎修女的演说朴实无华，其所举事例听来似平凡之至，然而其中所蕴含的伟大而神圣的爱感人至深。平凡中孕育伟大，真情才能动人。

President Reagan presents Mother

Teresa with the Medal of Freedom 1985.

Fast Reading——Skimming

Skim the text to check your prediction and find out what kind of person Mother Teresa was?

kindness, charitable, be ready to help others, lovingly, modest, ordinary but also great

Read the text again and decide whether each of the statements is true or false. 1. The text is an abridged speech made by

Mother Teresa when she was receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. ( T )

2. Mother Teresa began with a story to tell us that we can learn some beautiful things from poor people. ( T )

Detailed-reading

3. Mother Teresa could not help but exa

mine her conscience because she failed

to save the sick woman’s life.

( T )

4. Love, according to Mother Teresa, can

be understood and will be spread amo

ng the poor when we start making ho

mes for them. ( T )

5. If a person is shut out or thrown out f

rom the society, he will be poorer. ( F )

6. When we begin to love each other,

we’ll surely want to help each other.

( T )

背景阅读 :

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5

September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha

Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic nun of Albanian

ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who

founded the Missionaries of Charity in

Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years

she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned,

and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified byPope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. By the 1970s, she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary and book

Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm

Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace

Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian

honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her

humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's

Missionaries of Charity continued to

expand, and at the time of her death it

was operating 610 missions in 123

countries, including hospices and homes

for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and

tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's

and family counselling programs,

orphanages, and schools.

Read the passage on page 47 to get more

information about Mother Teresa and th

en complete the chart.

课后练习 :

When What

1910

When she was 12

When she was18

1929

1931

1946

1979

Mother Teresa was born in 1910.

She decided to become a nun.

She joined the Sisters of Loreto.

She arrived in India.

She became a nun.She left the convent and began to help the poor while living among them.

She won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Read the following sentences from the text and explain them in your own words.

1) Poor people are very wonderful people.

2) I believe that love begins at home.

3) Let us always meet each other with a

smile, for a smile is the beginning of

love.

4) Once we begin to love each other

naturally we want to do something.

Read the text and the passage in Task 2 again and then discuss in groups the following qutestions.

1) What kind of person do you think

Mother Teresa was?

2) Why was she famous all over the

world?

3) What are the most important

contributions of Mother Teresa?

4) For what reason(s) do you think

Mother Teresa was able to win the

Peace Prize?

5) What can we learn from Mother

Teresa?

Discussion

Have you ever tried to help others or

been helped by others?

Work in pairs and tell each other about

your experiences of helping someone or

being helped by someone. How did you

feel after helping him/her? How did you

feel after being helped?

Homework.

Read the whole text again and recite

the last paragraph.

A poem

To See Your Beautiful Smile by Goran

Rahim

To see your beautiful smile,

I will cross a border.

I will fly like a bird,

As it is my heart's order.

My eyes are restless,

To see your beautiful smiles.

I have promised my heart

That I will go thousand miles.

To see your beautiful smile,

I will change my own way.

I will break the chain of values,

No matter what the world say.

Thank you!