(
课件网) making a differnce - understanding ideas Book 3 Unit 1 The Well That Changed the World What do you know about Africa Make a prediction about the passage. connection ？ Ryan Fast reading Who built the well Why was the well built Ryan Ryan wanted to help Africans. Match the main idea of each paragraph. Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 Para. 6 a. Ryan’s first try ended up in failure. b. Ryan was inspired and decided to help. c. Ryan visited the well he donated in Uganda. d. Ryan got more support and helped more people. e. Ryan got help and realized his dream at last. f. The determined attitude changed Ryan’s whole life. Paragraph 1：What questions does Ryan ask himself Why do some African children have to... Life is easy for me, but hard for those people. Why don’t I help Ryan is a _____ person. caring and considerate 1. As a six-year-old Canadian schoolboy, Ryan had trouble believing the words spoken by his teacher that many people in developing African countries couldn’t get enough clean water. He looked across the classroom at the drinking fountain. It was very close—only ten steps away. 非洲发展中国家 眺望 喷泉式饮水机 have trouble (in)doing sth.做某事有困难 So, Ryan asked himself, “Why do some African children have to walk ten kilometres to get water every day And why is the water so dirty that it makes them sick ” Young Ryan thought, “Life is easy for me, but hard for those people. Why don’t I help ” 肮脏的 Paragraph 2-3：What failure did Ryan meet How did Ryan react to the failure His first target of $70 was far from $2000 —money needed to bulid a well. react ...but Ryan didn’t give up. He started to ask for help Ryan is a _____ person. courageous and persistent 2. At first, his plan was to earn money to build a single well somewhere in Africa. He cleaned windows and did gardening for his family and neighbours. He soon reached his first target of $70, but when he gave the money to a charity, he was told that it actually cost $ 2,000 to build a well. do gardening 做园艺 慈善组织 reach one’s target 达到某人的目标 Seventy dollars was only enough for a hand pump. Ryan understood that a hand pump wouldn’t help the children. What they needed was a well dug near their homes. 抽水机 挖，掘 dig-dug-dug 3. Two thousand dollars was a lot of money, but Ryan didn’t give up. He was determined to help other children have clean water. He started to ask for help from his classmates and neighbours and persuaded them to donate money. At the same time, a friend of Ryan’s mother helped make his story go public. be determined to do sth.下决心做某事 公之于众 persuade sb. to do sth.说服某人做某事 After several months, Ryan had raised the $ 2,000, with which a well was built near a primary school in Uganda. The children at the school no longer needed to walk for hours to get water. They were grateful to him and invited him to visit. /ju ɡ nd /乌干达 举起；筹集 不再 be grateful to ... ...
