英语泛读教程 4 unit 4 Refugee.ppt

5. Paragraph 6 1. How many American parts are mentioned in this paragraph? 2. What happened in each part? * 1. The humanitarian crisis, provoked by the flight continued to fester. (1st line) A humanitarian crisis (or humanitarian disaster) is an event or series of events which represents a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people, usually over a wide area. Armed conflicts, epidemics, famine, natural disasters and other major emergencies may all involve or lead to a humanitarian crisis. * 2. be of concern (to sb) (line 2): if sth is of concern to you, it is important to you and you feel worried about it Eg. The rise of unemployment is of great concern to the government. * 3. displaced person(line 6): sb who has been forced to leave their country because of war or cruel treatment; refugee 4. repatriate (line 8): (vt) to send sb back to their own country: At the end of the war, prisoners were repatriated. * 5. asylum(line 17): (u) protection given to sb by a government because they have escaped from fighting or political trouble in their own country political asylum * 6. ebb and flow （line 68） a situation or state in which sth increases and decreases in a kind of pattern I relaxed into the ebb and flow of the music. 7. 迁徙到公海上的海地人的苦难被解决了（line 71） plight:(usually singular) a bad, serious or sad condition or situationthe plight of homeless children * SOLUTIONS TO REFUGEE POPULATION Video * Solutions to refugee population in Hongkong The durable solutions to refugee populations are: a. voluntary repatriation to the country of origin; b. local integration into the country of asylum; and C. resettlement to a third country. * * Company LOGO Exersise Idioms: 1. very easy(informal); things that is easy to do. 2. be skillful in gardening. 3. very easy; as easy as ABC 4.点石成金 5. (informal)be very clumsy；笨手笨脚 6. be interested