课件28张PPT。 Travel journal
Unit 3China has many great rivers. If you could travel down only one of them, which one would you choose? Why?②④
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⑤①Langcang River
澜沧江Mekong River
湄公河The Suifen River – 黑龙江The Yellow River – 黄河Brahmaputra Yarlung Zangbu River – 雅鲁藏布江
The Changjiang River –长江The Pearl River – 珠江The Langcang River – 澜沧江 What about the Mekong River?Part of it is in China, too!Let’s take off! Now!Now we reach the Mekong River!After reaching the Mekong, an old man told me a story about the journey in the Mekong of a boy and a girl ? Do you want to know?
Now let’s read it. Open your book on page 18 and find out where is the Mekong River and the differences between the Mekong River and the Langcang River .
(3 minutes)Do you know where it is?Mekong is a river in SE Asia, which flow from China from Cambodia and Laos to Vietnam.CambodiaCambodia is a country in SE Asia between Thailand and Vietnam. Population:10,300,00(1995) Capital: Phnom Penh.LaosLaos is a country in SE Asia between China and Cambodia. Population:5090000(1999).Capital: VientianeVietnamVietnam is a country in SE Asia, next to Cambodia and China. Population:79,939,000(2001). Capital: Hanoi. Can you tell the differences between the Mekong River and the Langcang River ? Look at the map carefully.
The Chinese part of the river is called the Langcang River and after flowing in other countries the river is called the Mekong River.New Words and Expressionspersuade:
stubborn :
properly:
determined;
change her mind:
give in: 劝服顽固的适当地坚决的改变她的主意屈服
Comprehension
Fill in the blank Detail ReadingWork in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.(5 minutes) Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
What was their dream?
Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?
What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?
Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why?They are bother and sister, and both are college students.Their dream was to take a great bike trip.They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a college in Kunming.The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South
China Sea.You can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.Yes. The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5000 meters,
where it is hard to breathe and very cold.An attitude is what a person thinks about something. Make lists of Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s similar and different attitudes about the trip.(6 minutes)taking this trip is a dream
that comes true.that they will enjoy this trip a lot.that most of the Mekong will
be found in Southeast Asia.that they must start in Qinghai where the river begins/see all of the Mekong.
that they don’t need to
prepare much. it is too cold and high to start
in Qinghai.that using an atlas is very
important.
Activities :Group Discussion
A dam is a huge wall built on a river that can produce electricity for millions of people. A dam can also stop floods in places that get lots of rain. For those reasons , the Lancang Mekong River now has some dams. In our country, a lot of dams have been or are being built on the Changjiang and Yellow Rivers.Work in pairs and discuss this question:
What do you think a dam does to a river and the people who lives on it?
Make a list of at least two good and two bad things a dam does.
Represent your report to your classmates.Activities :Group DiscussionFun TimeImagine that you are helping the cyclists to prepare for their trip down the Mekong. You need to choose what you will take with you.
Then I will give you something to choose and write down their names as many as possible.Now write down the words as many as possible. Let’s go!Imagine that you and three of your classmates run a travel business that gives tours of famous places in or near your hometown. You want to make an advertisement that both foreigners and Chinese can read so that your travel agency can get more business. Your advertisement will go into a popular magazine.HomeworkHere are two useful websites about the beautiful and famous places. Log on them and learn more by yourselves
http://www.ce.cn/newtravel/
http://finance.icxo.com/htmlnews/2006/01/16/756119_0.htm
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