Reading1

blindness
a.made an illness or problem go away b. the state of not being able to see
affects
cured patients
c. feeling or showing thanks
d. cut a person’s body open to take our or repair a part e. people who are ill, especially in hospitals f. causes a change in somebody or something
3. What does ‘a flying eye hospital’ mean?
4. What do the doctors also use the plane as?
5. Why do local doctors and nurses come to the plane? 6. What do the ORBIS doctors teach local doctors and nurses?
5. What is the most important thing for them?
6. What does Dr Ma hope? Why?
1. How many operations did Dr Ma do during his last visit? He operated on 150 patients.
Questions
The second half
1. How many operations did Dr Ma do during his last visit?
2. What does he think of this work?
3. How do people feel about ORBIS treatments? 4. Why is Dr Ma proud?
indeed
proud
真正地
自豪的
adv.
adj.
medicine
treat improve interviewer
医学,药
治疗 改进, 改善 采访者
n.
vt. vt. n.
carry on 继续下去, 继续开展
Read the interview loudly.
blindness affects cured patients operated grateful
A teaching center.
5. Why do local doctors and nurses come to the plane? To learn about eye operations.
6. What do the ORBIS doctors teach local doctors and nurses? New skills and knowledge. 7. Why do the ORBIS doctors train local doctors and nurses? Because they hope to help more people.
operate (v.) on sb.
give/perform an operation (n.) on sb.
medicine (n.)
medical (adj.) treatment (n.)药物 治疗
prevent 预防 v.
blindness 失明 n.
affect 影响 v.
mostly 大多数 adv.
7. Why do the ORBIS doctors train local doctors and nurses?
1. How many people are blind around the world?
About 45 million.
2. What do volunteer doctors do on the plane?
ORBIS is a c_________ that helps b________ harity lind ye people. Most e____ problems can be c_______ or ured p_________. However, many people cannot revente ospital octors afford to go to h_________. The d________ on d reat the ORBIS plane fly to poor areas to t________ people with eye problems and to t________ local each doctors and nurses new s_______. The local kills perations doctors and nurses can watch the o________ on earning v______. After l________ from the ORBIS ideo doctors, the local doctors can help people in their areas.
They perform operations.
3. What does ‘a flying eye hospital’ mean?
It means ORBIS doctors perform operations on the plane.
4. What do the doctors also use the plane as?
1. There are many more blind e a. people in poor countries _____ to learn new skills.
2. Many blind people do not_____ f b. are volunteers. get help because 3. Local doctors and nurses a c. _____ can be either come to the ORBIS plane prevented or cured. 4. Dr Ma said that 80% of the c d. _____ people all over the cases of blindness world donate. 5. ORBIS is supported by the d e. _____ than in rich countries. money that 6. All the doctors and nurses b f. _____ they have no money to on the ORBIS plane go to hospital
operated
grateful
An interview with an ORBIS doctor
Questions
The first half (1-20lines)
1. How many people are blind around the world?
2. What do volunteer doctors do on the plane?
case 案例 n.
treatment 治疗 n.
medical 医疗的 adj.
patient 病人 n.
volunteer 志愿者n. operation 手术n.
grateful 感激的 adj. cure 治愈 v. afford 买得起的 adj. skill 技能 n.
train
训练
vt.
4. Why is Dr Ma proud?
Because he can help so many people.
5. What is the most important thing for them? The most important thing for them is that they can help people see again. 6. What does Dr Ma hope? Why?
2. What does he think of this work? It’s hard work but he is used to it now.
3. How do people feel about ORBIS treatments? They are grateful to the doctors for the treatments.
He hopes people will support their work by sending donations to ORBIS. Because all they need is enough money.
1. About 45 million people have heart problems. F eye 2. All of the cases of blindness can be cured or prevented. 80 percent F 3. ORBIS doctors do operations in local hospitals. F on the plane 4. Patients go to the plane to learn about eye operations. Local doctors and nurses F 5. Dr Ma says he is used to the hard work. 6. People can help by sending donations to ORBIS. T T
Unit 5
International charities
Reading 1
Game: “find friends”
a.International Federation of Red Cross
b. World Wide Fund for Nature c. UNICEF
d. Oxfam
e. World vision
f. ORBIS
World Wide Fund for Nature
World vision
UNICEF
OxfΒιβλιοθήκη Baidum
ORBIS
International Federation of Red Cross
An interview with ORBIS doctor
a flying eye hospital
Homework
1. Revise the interview. 2. Find out some useful phrases. 3. Visit the websites http://www.orbis.org/ to know more about ORBIS