三杯茶的英文介绍.ppt

1、K2-Chogori,The main character is the mountain hiker Greg Mortenson who climbed K2, the worlds second highest mountain, in the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. He was planning to lay his deceased sister Christas amber necklace on the summit of K2. After more than 70 days on the mountain, Greg an

2、d three other climbers had their ascent interrupted by the need to complete a 75-hour life-saving rescue of a fifth climber. After getting lost during his descent, he became weak and exhausted, and by chance alone. He came across Korphe, a small village built on a shelf jutting out from a canyon. He

3、 was greeted and taken in by the chief elder of Korphe, Haji Ali. And he was taken care of by people there.,Background,To repay the remote community for its hospitality, Mortenson promised to build a school for the village. But he never thought he had to pay such a big price to make his promise. And

4、 he also never knew that his life totally changed which he chose a harder and more complicated life.,Formerly, schooling focused on the boys, but educated boys tend to move to the cities to find jobs, and seldom return. By contrast, educated girls tend to remain in the community and pass their enhan

5、ced knowledge to the next generation. Thus, Mortenson suggested that educating girls has more of a lasting benefit for the community. He suffered the sorrow, depression, loneliness, and almost death, but he never forgot his promise. He was willing to devote his life to dissolve the biggest enmity in

6、 the world.,The girls education,Tahira :Hussein the teachers daughter, one of Korphes Schools first female graduates who received a scholarship to continue her education after she graduated from the Korphe School. Afterwards, she planned to return to Korphe and teach alongside her father so that oth

7、er girls would have an opportunity to receive education like her.,knowledge changed the fate,Jahan :Twahas daughter, Haji Alis granddaughter, who had been one of the Korphe Schools best students was one of the CAIs first scholarship students and went on to study medicine. Jahan had come to Skardu pl

8、anning to become a simple health worker and then returned to work in Korphe. But now she modified and enlarged her plans. She wanted to be such a woman that she could start a hospital and be an executive, and look over the health problems of all the women in the Braldu valley. She wanted to become a

9、 very famous woman of this area. Education changed the lives of the two girls.,Building the schools requires a number of sacrifices from Mortenson and from the local villagers involved. When Mortenson begins his Korphe project, he sells all his possessionsincluding cherished books and his grandmothe

10、rs car. Even after becoming successful, Mortenson continues to make sacrifices, taking as little money as possible from the CAI and leaving his family alone for months at a time.,Of the sacrifices offered by the local villagers, the most dramatic is Haji Alis decision to give twelve rams (half of th

11、e villages wealth) as a bribe to a neighboring chief so construction of the school can proceed in Korphe. As Haji Ali puts it, the children of Korphe will have their education far longer than the rams would have lasted. And thats the value of what he is doing.,Haji Ali,By building the school, Mortenson and Haji Ali planted seeds in the hearts of these girls a