The World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue
丁 莲
[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 捐赠
Catalogue 清单、表格
Anniversary周年纪念→anniversaries(复数)
Sewing machine 缝纫机
Ox→oxen(复数) 公牛
Trunk library 箱式图书馆
Seed 种子
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.
你是否想要赠送一份特殊的礼物？那么下面这份清单供你参考.你送的礼物不是给你所爱的人留念的，而是给那些确有需要的人的一项生活上的无偿捐助。
你选购礼物时，我们都会给你提供一张精美的卡片，让你送给你的某个特殊的人。这种卡片可以用在任何一种特殊的场合--结婚、出生、生日、圣诞节、周年纪念等。
从这份清单中悬着一份确实有用的礼物，送给世界上最穷苦的人吧！给急需帮助的社区带去改善的希望吧！
为了让你们知道我在想着你们，特从“世界上最有用的礼品清单”中选购一份礼物，请你转送给世界上最穷苦的人。
这份礼物送给印度、肯尼亚或孟加拉国约40户人口的村庄，对他们进行新的农业生产方法的培训，并提供种子和简单的农业机械。仅仅提高20%的产量，就意味着会对人的患病与健康、家庭饥饿与自足产生影响。
Step 7: Conclusion
The structure of this whole passage
A brief introduction (introduce the meaning of the World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue website)
↓
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