Unit 3 Travel journal
Reading
Teaching goals
1. Learn something about the Mekong River through reading.
2. Students can use what they have learned to describe a trip.
3. Enable students understand the text
Teaching important and difficult points:
1. Understand the text well.
2. Try to master the useful new words & expressions in this period.
Teaching aids: a computer & a projector
Teaching procedures
StepⅠPre-reading
1. Ask students if they know any famous rivers. Then, show some rivers to them.
2. ask how many students live beside a river, and how people make use of rivers in their daily life.
3. Teacher ask: have you visited the Mekong River If no, let’s learn something about it.
4. Show a picture of the Mekong River and the brief introduction of it. Ask them:
Can you list the countries that the Mekong River flows through
Step II While-Reading
1. Scanning the text and then answer the following questions:
a. Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei
b. What is their dream
c. Who first had the idea
2. Skimming the text and give the main ideas of each paragraph.
a. para1: the dream of taking a great bike trip along the Mekong River.
b. para2: different attitudes between them.
c. para3: the preparation before the trip & details about Mekong River.
3. Careful reading
a. Read the 1st paragraph and try to complete a form.
Participants
Traffic tool
Starting place
Destination
b. Read the 2nd paragraph and answer the form: What different opinions do they have
Wang Kun Wang Wei
source
altitude
air
c. Read the 3rd paragraph and then look the picture and fill the blank
What can they see during the journey
It begins in a ______ on a ______ _________.
Then, it______ quickly. It becomes______ as it passes through deep _____.
Sometimes, the river becomes a _______ and enters ____ _____ .
At last, the river _____ enters the South China Sea.
Step III Post-reading
Discussion
Imagine you are helping the cyclists to prepare for their trip down the Mekong. Do you think which of the following objects is the most useful Why
Step IV Homework
1. Write a passage about their journey with 120 words.
2. Underline useful expressions in the text.
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