Module 5 A Trip Along the Three Gorges Reading and vocabulary 课件（21张PPT）

课件21张PPT。A Trip Along the Three Gorges· · ·· · ·Mao Zedong wrote a poem in which he desbribed that
Walls of stone
to hold back clouds and rain
till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.
更立西江石壁
截断巫山云雨
高峡出平湖
——1956《水调歌头-游泳》
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………The Wu GorgeThe Qutang GorgeThe Xiling GorgeScenery along the Three Gorges白帝城昭君宅屈原祠孔明碑A Trip Along the Three GorgesStudy ObjectivesWordsTo guess and know the meaning of? some new words.ReadingTextTo grasp the important information of the text.To practice some reading micro-skills.A Trip
Along the
Three GorgesVocabularygoods
temple
dock
legend
deck
raft
detour
colleague绕行之路
寺庙
甲板
码头
传奇
木筏
同事
货物
Reading--Fast ReadingThe foodLife along the riverScanning:
go through the passage again and write out the route of the trip:涪陵丰都瞿塘峡大宁河巫峡小三峡香江西陵峡三峡大坝…set off from…
sunset…docked at…
slept…
made a detour up…to see…
went through… passed…
came out of …
sailed into…Reading--Careful ReadingRead the preface and find the following information: A trip along
the Three
GorgesPeter and his colleaguetake a boat time:
passengers:
means of transportation:
during the Spring Festival , 1997_________________________________________1. How did they go downstream?
By Jiangyou boat.
2. What did his colleague suggest?
“You shouldn’t go on those ships.”
3. Why?
“They are very crowded. They are mainly for goods and people trading along the river. They don’t stop at the temples and there won’t be any other foreigners.”1Read the 1st paragraph and answer:We left the _____ on a beautiful afternoon. The sun was _______ _______ as we sailed ____________ through a hilly region. Men rode ________ _____ along the river’s edge and coal boats went past. 2Read the 2nd paragraph and fill in the blanks:docksshiningbrightlydownstreambambooraftsAs the sun ___ we docked at Fengdu. We could see the sun _______ behind the white pagoda. It was beautiful. setsettingwhite pagodaFengdu3Read the 3rd paragraph and answer:1. What were they doing when
they passed the first gorge?
They were sleeping.
2. How wide was the gorge and
how high were the mountains?
Gorge: 350 feet.
Mountains: two-mile-high.4Read the 4th paragraph and finish the following tasks.1. Find a sentence in the text which has the same meaning with the following one：
In order to see the smaller gorges , we take a long route up the Daning River at Wushan.
At Wushan we made a detour up the Daning River to
see some of the smaller gorges.Read the 1st paragraph and answer:
2.How did peter feel about the Yangtze River?
There was so much history and it is beautiful. 5Read the 5th paragraph and finish the following tasks.1. What is the name of the 3rd gorge?
The Xiling Gorge.
2. What did they do at the construction site of the dam?
They took pictures and pointed at the site.
3. What were the characters on the sign?
Build the Three Gorges Dam, Exploit the Yangtze River.LetterHomeworkWrite a letter to one of your foreign friends introducing the Three gorges . You can use the information in our text and other useful information you have got.
Thank you for your listening !
Have a splendid day!Thanks