The World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue

丁 蓮

[Teaching Aims]：

Have students understand all the new words, phrases the meaning of this whole passage.

[Difficult Points]

Understand the new words, phrase and the Reading’s meaning.

[Teaching Methods]

1. Help students know the new words, phrases and sentences, and let them read and translate the passage

2. Put up with some questions to let them discuss and find the answers.

[Teaching Aids]

Multimedia

[Teaching Procedures]

Step 1: Greetings

Step 2: Lead in

Watch two plays

Step 3: New words

Donate 捐贈

Catalogue 清單、表格

Anniversary周年紀念→anniversaries(復數)

Sewing machine 縫紉機

Ox→oxen(復數) 公牛

Trunk library 箱式圖書館

Seed 種子

Step 4: Pre-reading

a. Do you ever give gifts to the people you even don't know but they do really need your help?

b. Suppose tomorrow is the birthday of a child in poor area, what gift would you send to him?

Step 5: Fast-reading

a. What’s the name of this website? (The world’s most useful gift catalogue)

b. If a person wants to buy school books and two goats for poor family, how much does he need to pay? (20+40*2=$100)

Step 6: Careful reading (translation)

a. Would you like to donate an unusual gift? Then this is the catalogue for you. The gift you give is not something your loved one keeps but a voluntary contribution towards the lives of people who really need it.

b. Choose from this catalogue a really useful gift for some of the world's poorest and bring hope for a better future to a community in need.

c. When you purchase an item, we will send you an attractive card for you to send to your special person. You can use the cards for any special occasion--wedding, births, birthday, Christmas or anniversaries, etc.

d. To let you know that I am thinking of you, I have purchased a gift from the World's Most Useful Catalogue for you to give to some of the world's poorest.

This gift will train a whole village of around 40 families in India, Kenya, or Bangladesh in new agricultural methods, and provide seeds and simple agricultural equipment. Just 20% more produce will mean the difference between sickness and health, between families going hungry and families providing for themselves.

你是否想要贈送一份特殊的禮物？那么下面這份清單供你參考.你送的禮物不是給你所愛的人留念的，而是給那些確有需要的人的一項生活上的無償捐助。

你選購禮物時，我們都會給你提供一張精美的卡片，讓你送給你的某個特殊的人。這種卡片可以用在任何一種特殊的場合--結婚、出生、生日、圣誕節、周年紀念等。

從這份清單中懸著一份確實有用的禮物，送給世界上最窮苦的人吧！給急需幫助的社區帶去改善的希望吧！

為了讓你們知道我在想著你們，特從“世界上最有用的禮品清單”中選購一份禮物，請你轉送給世界上最窮苦的人。

這份禮物送給印度、肯尼亞或孟加拉國約40戶人口的村莊，對他們進行新的農業生產方法的培訓，并提供種子和簡單的農業機械。僅僅提高20%的產量，就意味著會對人的患病與健康、家庭饑餓與自足產生影響。

Step 7: Conclusion

The structure of this whole passage

A brief introduction (introduce the meaning of the World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue website)

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A gift catalogue (21 gifts to be chosen)

→ An attractive card (a card to express your wishes)

Step 8: Exercise

Choose the correct gift (A to U) from the Internet page next to each description

i. This gift allows a woman who is a trained tailor to make some income, giving her and her family a better future. →N- a sewing machine

ii. This gift gives a person the opportunity to acquire basic reading and writing, and life skills. Adults develop the confidence to participate in the social, economic and political lives of their communities. →G- basic adult education

iii. This gift buys a goat. A goat gives milk and is a valuable income. Goats increase in number quickly and add much to a family’s food and financial security. They are easy and fun for children to care for. → J- A goat for a poor family

iv. This gift covers the cost of exercise books and textbooks for community primary schools that operate in poor or remote villages. → F- School books

Step 9: Discussion

If you want to choose a gift from the World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue, what gift will you choose? Why?

Step 10: Homework

Write a composition about your donating to poor people. (What do you donate? How they feel?) 100 words