1、Unit 3 Travel journalWarming up and readinga diary of personal experiences and observations during the journeyThinking:Why do people like traveling?If you are going traveling,what you must do before your journey?Have you ever been there?Kinds of transporton footby bikeby motorby busby jeepby carby t
2、rainby ship/boat/seaat the port/harborby plane/airat the airportBy bullet train By subway Kinds of transportby spaceshipby submarineKinds of transportWhat do you have to consider before you decide which kind of transport you prefer to use?Convenience(方便)Thinking:CostfareSafetyComfortQuicknessThe gre
3、at rivers in the worldNames of riverLocationLancang riverSeineNileGongoAmazonMississippiThamesEnglandEgyptCentral AfricaUSFranceChinaBrazil If youre going to travel along a river with someone.Thinking:Who are you going with?How are you traveling?Which river will you choose?What are you going to prep
4、are?What to prepare:Wear good shoesBring water&medicineDont hike alone.How do people who live along a river make use of it?to travel along itto irrigate the fields.to go swimming in it in summer.to make electricity.to do some washingJourney down the MekongReading:The Mekong River in BurmaThe Mekong
5、River in LaosThe Mekong River in CambodiaThe Mekong River in VietnamChinaLaosVietnamThailandCambodiaBurmaMekongLaosThailandMyanmarCambodiaVietnamChinaSouth China SeaFast Reading Travelers(who):Destination(where):Transport(how):Wang kun,Wang Wei,Dao Wei and Yu HangDown the Mekong riverBy mountain bik
6、ea challengeTask1 Find out the following information.Read it fast and find the answers to the following three questions1.Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?2.What was their dream?3.Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?Para.1 1.Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?They are brother and sister,and both are college students
7、.2.What was their dream?Their dream was to take a great bike trip.3.Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?They are Wang Kuns cousins who are at a college in Kunming.Read it fast and answer the questions 1.What is Wang Weis shortcoming?(give an example)She is stubborn.2.Where is the source of the Mekong River?
8、The source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province.Para.2 Read Para.3 fast and answer the questions1.What did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find in the liabrary?We found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography.2.Which sea does Mekong River enter?It entersthe South China Sea.What can
9、 you see when you travel along the Mekong?Read Para.3 carefully and answer the questionYou can see glacier,rapids,valleys,waterfalls and plains.Picture 1Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5g_p_r_w_glacierplainsrapidswaterfallbends and meandersRiver deltaMain idea Para.1 preparing for their trip Para
10、.2 Wang Wei isstubbornPara.3 Wang Kun and Wang Weis dreamJourney down the Mekong Answer of Ex.1 Their idea was to take a great bike trip.Wang Wei planned the trip.The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.You can see the source glacier,rapids,hills,valleys,wate
11、rfall,and plains.The journey will begin at an altitude of more than 5000 meters,where it is hard to breathe and very cold.Wang Kun:enthusiastic,critical,sensible Wang Wei:imaginative,stubborn,Discuss the text in details.Their dreamTheir preparationsBoth of them bought_,got their cousins interested i
12、n traveling and turned to _in the library.Taking a great bike trip.expensive bikesthe the atlasWhy excitedTheir journey would begin Their journey would begin at_.at_.The Mekong RiverIt begins at a _on a Tibetan It begins at a _on a Tibetan mountain.Then it moves quickly mountain.Then it moves quickl
13、y and becomes _as it and becomes _as it passes passes throughthrough_._.Half of Half of it is it is in China.Then it travels slowly in China.Then it travels slowly through hills and low valleys and through hills and low valleys and plains,plains,at last,at last,it it enters_.enters_.an altitude of a
14、n altitude of more thanmore than 5000 meters 5000 metersglacierdeep deep valleysvalleysthe South China Seathe South China Searapidsattitude Wang Weis and Wang Kuns attitudeto the tripWang Weis attitudeWang Kuns attitudePositive to the trip.She wants to organize it as it was her idea.Less positive.He
15、 wants to organize it as he thinks he cando better than her sister.Summary Wang Kun and Wang Wei have _ about taking a great bike trip.when they _ from college.They _ to _ along the Mekong River with their _.Wang Wei is very _.Once she is _ to do something she will never _ her mind.Although it is difficult to travel along the Mekong River by bike,she _ that they find the _ of the river and begin their journey there.dreamedgraduateddecidedcyclecousinsstubborndeterminedchangeinsistedsourceHomework Remember the new words in reading part.
