Unit 7 International Charities
Reading 1
Learning aims
1. Read the article, to understand the status of the ORBIS doctor's job.
2. Context guessing meaning from context.
Guide One 5
'
Listen to the tape and answer the questions using F or T
1.All the eye problems can be cured or prevented.
2.Many people can’t afford to go to hospital.
3.The plane is used as a hospital and teaching centre.
4.ORBIS is a business that helps blind people.
5.Local doctors and nurses can help people in poor areas after learning from ORBIS doctors.
Have a match ! Who can read them best ?
F
T
T
F
T
Guide Two 8
'
Read Lines 1-6and answer some questions.
How many people does blindness affect around the world? Where are they mostly from?
2. How many sick people can be cured or prevented?
3. Why don’t some people receive medical treatment?
About 285 million people.
In poor areas around the words
About 80 per cent
Because most people don’t have money for medical treatment .
Lines 10-26 7
'
Why don’t ORBIS doctors work in a hospital?
2. How many operations did Dr Ma perform during his last visit?
3. Is the plane only a place to perform operations?
Have a match ! Who can read them best ?
Because many of our patients can’t afford to
go to hospital
150
No
Class Exercise(
一
)
10
'
Read the artist and help her put the sentences together. Write the correct letters in the blanks.
1.Many more people in poor areas _______.
2.Dr Ma thinks that most eye problems and diseases ___.
3.Many blind people do not get any treatment _______.
4.The ORBIS plane is used as _______.
5.One hundred and fifty patients _______.
6.More money is needed _______.
a.
were operated on during Dr Ma’s last visit
b.
a hospital and a treating centre
c.
because they have no money to go to hospital
d.
to carry on with the work
e.
have eye problems
f.
can be prevented or cured
Have a
match!Who
can do it best?
f
c
e
b
a
d
Class Exercise(二)
Read the artist and help her complete it with the correct forms of the words in the box.
The ORBIS plane travels all around the world and helps people with eye problems in poor areas. Most of the people there cannot (1) _______ to go to hospital, so ORBIS doctors go to them. Operations are done to help people with eye problems see again. The (2) _________ do not have to pay because ORBIS is a charity. Local doctors and nurses are also invited on (3) _______ to learn new skills. By (4) ________ them, ORBIS doctors hope to help more people.
afford board cure medicine
patient proud support train
Dr Ma is a doctor on the ORBIS plane. He feels (5) _______ to help people see again. Dr Ma thinks that modern (6) _________ is developing quickly and now most eye problems can be treated and (7) _______, but more money is needed to (8) _________ their work.
afford board cure medicine
patient proud support train