ORBIS international - Facebook

Diary Type
Formal schema - understanding different language and text structure in use

ORBIS international - Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/ORBISInternational

♬ Choose this website if you:
 ☞ want to read how people around the world think about ORBIS
 ☞ want to know internet language in English
 ☞ have a Facebook account


♬ Some possible themes for your diary entry:
 ☞ Read some posts written by ORBIS international and other people. Compare how their writing style is different. 
 ☞ Pick several internet languages you like and find out what they mean. The meaning may not be in dictionary, but on the internet.
 ☞ Write a comment about ORBIS international on the webpage. If you have an account, you need to sign in. If not, you can just create an account very easily by clicking 'sign up'. 

ORBIS - Saving Sight Worldwide

Treasure Hunt Type
Metacognitive Skills - Identifying important aspects, looking for details, analyzing the problem

ORBIS - Saving Sight Worldwide

http://orbis.org/blindness.aspx?lang=1

♬ Choose this article if you want to:
 ☞ read more information about ORBIS, which is the theme of our text
 ☞ know how exactly ORBIS helps people who have problem in sight


♬ Treasure Hunt Questions
 ☞ Where do they work? Find out the locations ORBIS is currently working.
 ☞ What does 'Cyber-sight' mean? Search for details in the website and briefly write the answer in 2-3 sentences.
 ☞ How can you get involved in ORBIS? Write several possible ways to support ORBIS.

Marching off the map

Q & A Type
Lower levels of reading skills - Word attack skills, Decoding print

Marching off the map

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6918105-marching-off-the-map-a-k-a-march-beyond-the-map

Click 'more' at the end of the paragraph.

♬ Choose this website if you :
 ☞ want to know more words in context
 ☞ be introduced with a Korean book about touching stories of overseas volunteering
 ☞ already have heard about Biya Han


♬ Questions
 ☞ How does the writer describe Biya Han? More specifically, what does "free-spirited round-the-world tourist and best-selling writer?" mean? 
 ☞ Write the meaning of the sentence, referring to the meaning chunks : "You / will feel / almost / as if / breathing in the same space / with Han /, witnessing the pain and sufferings of people / alienated and ignored / in little corners of this world / , feeling stronger and more confident / about your ability / to help people in disaster /, and so on.
 ☞ Read the reviews at the bottom of the webpage. How do other people think about this book?

How to volunteer overseas

Individual Project Work
Higher levels of reading skills - Critical reading skills, synthesizing

How to volunteer overseas

http://www.wikihow.com/Volunteer-Overseas

♬ Choose this website if you:
 ☞ want to know specific and realistic aspects of overseas volunteering
 ☞ are a critical reader who felt difficulties in overseas volunteering when reading the textbook
 ☞ want to know the steps to volunteer overseas


♬ The steps to complete your project:
 1) Read the website thoroughly.
 2) Check some realistic difficulties or obstacles in overseas volunteering.
 3) Apply those points to our text. What kind of problems the doctors and nurses might have faced? What kind of serious consideration they might have done before they decided to volunteer?
 4) Summarize your work on your project book.

Individual Project Work
Metacognitive strategies - Skimming, highlighting key ideas and summarizing

Interview with Charlotte Beauvoisin, 

Volunteer in Uganda

http://www.gooverseas.com/go-abroad-blog/interview-charlotte-beauvoisin-volunteer-in-uganda/13690

♬ Choose this website if you want to:
 ☞ read authentic story about overseas volunteering
 ☞ know how other people volunteer around the world
 ☞ know more about how it is to live in other countries


♬ Individual Project Work : Steps
 1) Take a glance at the website and write the points you think important
 2) Revisit the points you highlighted and write a short summary about the website
 3) Based on your summary, look for other volunteering stories on the web (1-2 stories)
 4) Summarize the stories in the same way.
 5) Add the summaries to your project book. It is now an excellent collection of overseas volunteering stories.