Reading

Translate phrases and sentences.

1. 剩下一些零花钱

2. 太虚弱以至于不能走的更远

3. 吃一顿丰盛的午餐

4. 国际慈善机构

have some pocket money left

too weak to walk any further

have a big lunch

international charities

ORBIS World Wide Fund for Nature

Oxfam UNICEF

1. Which charity can help her?

Problem : _______Mrs. Black has been blind since she was sixty years old. Now ten years has passed, she still can’t see anything because she is very poor and has no enough money to go to hospital.

ORBIS

2. How does ORBIS help people?It helps___________________________

blind people around the world.

An interview with an ORBIS doctor

• Teaching aims:

• 1 通过上下文猜测生词词义。• 2 读懂文章，了解 ORBIS医护人员的基本工作状况。

• 3 学会用正确的语言介绍ORBIS医生的工作。

采访者失明主要的，大部分的案例，病例治愈医学的，医疗的治疗病人买得起，能做

interviewer['ɪntəvju:ə(r)] n.blindness ['blaɪndnəs] n.mostly ['məʊstli] adv.case [keɪs] n.cure [kjʊə(r)] vt.medical ['medɪkl] adj.treatment ['tri:tmənt] n.patient ['peɪʃnt] n.afford [ə'fɔ:d] vt.

去看病在飞机 (船，火车 )上做手术自豪的，骄傲的读者医学，药发展，加强治疗，处理继续开展，继续下去

go to hospital

go board

operate['ɒpəreɪt] vi.

proud [praʊd] adj.

reader ['ri:də(r)] n.

medicine ['medsn] n.

develop[dɪ'veləp] v.

treat [tri:t] vt.

carry on

学 科网， zxxk.fenghuangxueyi

a flying eye hospital

a special plane

Enjoy a video of ORBIS

Why is there a plane in the logo?

Because ORBIS uses its Flying Eye

Hospital to visit poor areas.

The plane is called a flying eye hospital.

(飞行眼科医院 )

Information about ORBIS ORBIS is a charity that helps blind people. Most eye problems can be cured or prevented. However, many people can’t afford to go to hospital. ORBIS doctors fly to poor areas to treat people with eye problems, and they operate on patients. Moreover, they teach local doctors and nurses new skills on board.

What does ORBIS do in the world?

operate on patients = do operations on patients

What do ORBIS doctors do on the plane?

ORBIS

A charity to treat (治疗 ), cure (治愈 )

or prevent (预防 ) blindness

B1 Amy wants to tell Daniel about Dr

Ma and what he does, but she does not

know the meanings of some words in the

interview. Help her match the words on

the left with the meanings on the right.

Write the correct letters in the blanks.

What does ORBIS do? (Page 96)

blindnesspatient

cureoperate on board

1. blindness

2. cure

3. patient

4. afford

5. on board

6. operate

a.cut a person’s body open to take out or repair a part

b.in or on a plane, ship, train, etc.

c. make an illness go away

d.have enough money to pay for something

e. a person who is ill, especially in hospital

f. the condition of being unable to see

f

c

e

d

b

a

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.

T F

F T

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An interview with an ORBIS doctor

1. How many people does blindness affect around the world? Where are they

mostly from?

2. How many sick people can be cured or prevented?

Lines 1-6

Blindness affects about 285 million people, mostly in poor countries.

About 80 per cent of the cases.

Because they do not have the money

for medical treatment.

3. Why don’t some people receive

medical treatment?

Lines 10-26

1. Why don’t ORBIS doctors work in a hospital?

Because many patients cannot afford to travel to hospital, ORBIS doctors have to go to them.

150 operations.

He is proud to help people see again

and improve their lives.

2. How many operations did Dr Ma

do during his last visit?

3. How does Dr Ma feel about helping

people see again?

4. What is needed to carry on with their

work? More money is needed.

1. (Line 1-6)

something about blindness 2. (Line 7-15)

the work of ORBIS3. (Line 16-20)

Dr Ma’s work and his feeling 4. (Line 21-26)

Dr Ma’s hope

Can you divide the passage?

B2 Amy wants to show how

ORBIS helps people. She is

making a chart. Help her fill in the

blanks with the words in the box.

doctors and nurses eye operations

eye problems Flying Eye Hospital

new skills see again

does _____________on the plane

helps people _______

invites local __________________ on board

teaches them _________

ORBIS, a charity

uses its _________________ to visit poor areas

treats people with ______________

More details about how ORBIS help people

doctors

and nurses

eye operations

see again new skills

Flying Eye Hospital

eye problems

B3 Amy made some more notes

of the interview. Help her put the

sentences together.

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.

e

a

f

c

d

b

afford board cure medicine

patient proud support train

B4 Amy is writing an article about

ORBIS for the school newsletter.

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.

afford

patients

Local doctors and nurses are also invited on (3)_______ to learn new skills. By (4)________ them, ORBIS doctors hope to help more people. 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.

training

proud medicine

cured

support

board

Read the interview about ORBIS.