(共25张PPT)
Unit 3 Travel Journal
1.If you have a good chance to go travelling ,where would you like to go ?
2.Have you visited any river?
3.Do you know some great rivers? What are they?
I Lead in
The great rivers in the world
Names of river Location(位置)
LancangRiver(Mekong)
Seine[sein]塞纳河
Nile
Congo刚果
Amazon亚马逊河
Mississippi
Thames[temz]泰晤士河 England
Egypt
Central Africa
the US
France
China
Brazil
……
How do people who live beside a river make use of it?
Brain
go swimming
travel along a river
to irrigate(灌溉)their fields
to make electricity
storming
Pre-reading—Ⅱ
Journey Down the Mekong
Let’s listen to the tape and try to finish the following tasks.
III.. Reading
China
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
South China Sea
: Look at the map and list the countries that the Mekong River flows through.
LancangRiver (Mekong)
2.Careful reading
Part. 1
1. Who will travel in the text?
Wang Kun ,Wang Wei, Dao Wei and
Yu Hang.
2. Where are they going ?
Along the Mekong river from …to…
3. How are they getting there?
cycle = go there by bike
Group work
part2.
1 .Who planed the trip
to the Mekong?
Wang Wei.
2.What different attitudes to the trip do they have?
Wang Wei
Wang Kun
too far
a determined look ;
would not change
her mind
too high
be excited about
be hard to
breathe; cold
an interesting
experience
source
altitude
air
3. Where is the source of
the Mekong River and
which sea does it enter?
The source of the river is in
Qinghai Province and
it enters the South China Sea.
4What difficulties did wang kun and wang wei find about their journey?
The journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.
part 3
What can they see along the Mekong?
It begins in a ______ on a ______ _________.
glacier
Tibetan
mountain
Then, it______ quickly. It becomes
______ as it passes through deep _____.
moves
rapids
valleys
Sometimes, the river becomes a _______ and enters ____ _____ .
wide valleys
waterfall
At last, the river _____ enters
the South China Sea.
delta
Para.1 Preparing for their trip
Para.2 Wang Kun and Wang Wei’ dream
Para.3 Different attitudes between them
Match the paragraphs with their main idea :
Part 4
Close
Wang Kun and his sister, WangWei , have dreamed of 1taking a great bike trip along the Mekong River, she persuade me2 to buy (buy)Last year, Wang Wei visited her cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang,3who studied in college in Yunnan. Wang Wei soon got them 3 interested (interest) in cycling, too. Wang Wei insisted on 4 finding the source of the river. And her brother told her that the journey would be 5 at an altitude of more than 5000 metres and the air would be hard 6 to breath (breath). But she didn’t seem worried. instead, she was 7 excited.
Before the trip, Wang Kun got a large atlas 8 with good maps. From the atlas , they could see that the river begins in a glacier on a 9Tibetan (Tibet) Mountain . They were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China. At last, the river delta enters 10 the South China Sea.
Close
IV
V. Discussion
Group work
what do you think aboutWang Kun and Wang wei ?
Wang Wei
Wang Kun
She is stubborn and determined.
She is not easy to change her mind.
She loves nature…
He is careful and serious
Some proverbs :
Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于有毅力者。
No success in life merely happens.
人生中没有什么成功是纯粹偶然得来的。
1. Read the passage again and again.
2. Find out language points and
difficulties in the reading part.
3. Finish the exercises on page19.
VI. Homework
Thank you
for your attention!