Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead in

1.Can you think of the situations where people need help?

Serious illness, jobless, accidents, wars, disasters…

2.While one is in such situations, which organization can help besides the people around him or her?

The WHO together with the government.

Step 2 Listen and answer:

1.Was wanglin cured or not?

2. How much was spent on the poor people by 2003?

3.What is another big challenge for the government?

Step 3 Scanning

Read the passage and try to come up with the general idea of each paragraph. Then ask students to fill in the chart to see if they have got a general understanding of the whole passage.