(共88张PPT)
Unit 3
Travel journal
Reading
高一人教新课标版必修一
Can you guess what the names
of these rivers are
This river is called our mother river.
The Yellow River – 黄河
This river is the longest one in China.
The Changjiang River –长江
This is the famous river in Guangdong
Province.
The Pearl River
This river begins in Qinghai Province
and flows through several countries.
The Mekong River
The Nile River
Names of river Location(位置)
Lancang River
Seine [sein]塞纳河
Nile
Kongo 刚果河
Amazon 亚马逊河
Mississippi
Thames [temz]泰晤士河 England
Egypt
Central Africa
the US
France
China
Brazil
The great rivers in the world
……
How do people who live beside
a river make use of it
go swimming
travel along a river
to irrigate(灌溉) their fields
to make electricity
Brain
Storming
Lan Chang River
The Mekong River
Can you list the countries that the Mekong flows through
The countries the Mekong River flows through:
China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
China
Laos
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
South China Sea
Myanmar
Can you tell the differences
between the Mekong River
and the Lancang River
The Chinese part of the river is called
the Lancang River and after flowing
in other countries the river is called
the Mekong River.
Journey down the Mekong
Reading
Part 1 The dream and the plan
Read the whole passage quickly and
decide which is the main idea of the
passage. _______
The dream of Wang Kun and Wang Wei
and their preparation for the bike trip.
B. Their dream and the journey down the
Mekong.
C. Their plan to travel down the Mekong
and the attitudes of two people.
D. The proper trip down the Mekong.
A
Listen to the tape and get the
main idea of each paragraph :
Para. 1
Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s dream.
Para. 2
Wang Wei is stubborn.
Para. 3
Preparing for their trip.
A diagram(图表) of the text
1. prepare to take a bike trip
2.Wang Wei organized the trip.
3. Information about the MeKong River
Read
the text
in details.
Who and What
Wang Kun and ___ _____ Wang Wei are
dreaming about _____________________.
his sister
taking a great bike trip
Paragraph 1: Dream
Where and How
They have the idea to ____ _____ the Mekong River from ______ it ______ to _____ it _____.
cycle along
where
begins
where
ends
Paragraph 2: A stubborn sister
She insisted that they find the source of
the river and begin their journey there.
Once she has made up her mind, nothing
can change it.
What can they see during the journey
It begins in a ____________ on a _______ _________.
glacier(冰川)
Tibetan
mountain
Paragraph 3: Preparation
Then, it ______ quickly. It becomes
______ as it passes through deep ______.
moves
rapids
valleys
Sometimes, the river becomes a ________ and enters ____ ______.
wide valleys
waterfall
After, It travels slowly through
__________ to _____________.
low valleys
plains(平原)
At last, the river _____ enters
the South China Sea.
delta
delta
三角洲
New words about geography:
altitude 海拔高度
glacier 冰河
rapids 急流
valley (山)谷
waterfall 瀑布
plain 平原
delta 三角洲
梦想做某事
骑自行车旅游
3.说服…做…
4.关心,介意
5.改变主意
6.下定决心
7.屈服,让步
8.使某人对·····感兴趣
dream of / about doing sth
take a bike trip
persuade sb to do
care about
change one’s mind
make up one’s mind
give in
get sb interested in
Useful words and phrases
1.What was Wang Kun
and Wang Wei’s idea
of a good trip
Their idea was
to take a great
bike trip.
Answer the questions.
2. Who planed the trip
to the Mekong
Wang Wei.
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.
4. What can you see when you travel along
the Mekong
You can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys,
waterfalls and plains.
glacier
valley
rapids
delta
waterfall
plain
5. What 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.
6. What do you think about Wang Kun
and Wang Wei
Wang Kun’s character:
enthusiastic, critical, sensible
Wang Wei’s character:
imaginative, organized, eager,
persistent, stubborn, risk-taking
Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s attitude to the trip:
Wang Wei believes…
They must _____ ___ _______ where
the river begins in order to see all of the Mekong.
2. They don’t need to _______ much.
start in Qinghai
prepare
1. It is too ____ _____ _____ to start in Qinghai.
2. That _____ ___ _____ is very important.
cold and high
using an atlas
Wang Kun believes….
It sounds a wonderful trip and I would love to be able to do a trip like that myself one day.
My attitude:
1. Their dream was to go hiking along
the river.
2. Wang kun is a high school student.
3. Both Dao Wei and Yu Hang are Dai
and they grew up in eastern Yunnan
province.
F
True or False
F
F
4. Wang Wei persuaded their cousins,
Dao Wei and Yu Hang, to join in
their cycling.
5. Before flowing in other countries,
the Mekong River is called the
Lancang River.
6. The source of the river is in QingHai
Province and it enters the east China
Sea.
T
T
F
7. They found few atlas and books about
Mekong River in library.
8. All parts of the Mekong River are in
china.
9. There are no waterfalls in the Mekong
River.
10. You can see glacier, rapids, valleys,
waterfalls and plains along the river.
F
F
F
T
Reading comprehension:
1. Which sentence is not true according to
the text
Wang Wei advised Wang Kun to buy a
mountain bike and he agreed.
Wang Wei seldom listened to others.
Before their trip they went to the library.
Wang Wei knew the best way of finding
the source of the river.
D
2. What does the last paragraph on Page18
tell us
A. They wanted to know how soon they would
come back.
B. They wanted to learn the world’s geography.
C. They went to the library to know something
about the Mekong River.
D. Wang Kun wanted to let Wang Wei know
how difficult their trip was.
C
3. When you travel along the Mekong River
maybe you can not see _________.
A. Waterfalls B. hills and villages
C. Plains where rice grows D. desert
4. What kind of person is Wang Wei
Which answer is wrong
A. stubborn B. determined
C. careless D. careful
D
D
Ever since ______ ______, I and Wang Wei
have dreamed about having a great _____
_____. It was Wang Wei who first had the
idea to _____ along the entire Mekong River
from where it ______ to where it ____. My
sister doesn’t _____ ______ details, because
she doesn’t know the best way of getting to
places.
Complete this passage
middle school
trip
cycle
begins
ends
care about
bike
When I told her the difficulties we would come
across during the journey, she gave me a
__________ look--- the kind that said she would
not _____ _____ _____. I know once she has
_____ ____ ____ _____, nothing can change it.
I had to _____ ____.
determined
chang her mind
made up her mind
give in
Language Points
1. Ever since middle school, my sister
Wang Wei and I have dreamed about
taking a great bike trip.
从中学起, 我姐姐王薇和我梦想作一次
了不起的自行车旅行。
dream about/of 梦想, 梦见 如:
I dreamed about flying last night.
He dreams of becoming a famous violinist
one day.
dream 常与not, little连用, 表示“想不到”。
I little dreamed of seeing you here.
真没有想到会在这遇到你。
与dream相关的其他词组:
dream up 虚构, 凭空想出
go to one’s dream 进入梦乡 read a dream 解梦
dream a (sweet/terrible…) dream
做了一个(甜蜜的、可怕的)梦
构词法: dreamer 做梦的人; dreamful 多梦的;
dream like 梦一般的; dreamland 梦境;
dream reader 解梦的人
2. Two years ago she bought an expensive
mountain bike and then she persuaded
me to buy one.
persuade: 说服, 劝说(暗示是成功的,
如果未成功则用try to persuade),
常用在persuade sb to do sth结构中。如:
I finally managed to persuade her to go
on with her work.
persuade还有下列用法:
persuade sb into doing sth 说服某人干某事
persuade sb of sth 使某人相信某事
persuade sb + that从句 说服, 使某人相信
如: Don’t let yourself be persuaded into
buying things you don’t want.
How can I persuade you of my words
She’ll only take me back if I can persuade
her that I’ve changed.
高考链接
While shopping, people sometimes can’t help ____ into buying something they don’t really need.
to persuade B. persuading
C. being persuade D. be persuaded
C
3. They are Dai and grew up in western
Yunnan Province near the Lancang River,
the Chinese part of the river that is called
the Mekong River in other countries.
他们是傣族人, 在云南省西部靠近澜沧江
的地方长大的, 湄公河在中国境内的这
一段叫澜沧江, 流到其他国家的就叫
湄公河。
the Chinese part of the river that is called
the Mekong River before flowing in other
countries是一个名词短语, 用来修饰前面
的the Langcang River, 其中又含有一个
定语从句that is called the Mekong River
before flowing in other countries.
finally 一般指一系列事物或论点的顺序的
最后项内容, 或用在动词前, 表示“等了好久
……才”, 没有感彩。
at last只能指时间位置, 不能指时间顺序,
在意思上是指经过周折、等待、耽搁到”
最后、终于”(出现所期待的结果), 常常
带有较浓厚的感彩。
4. finally/at last/in the end
in the end可与at last和finally通用, 但若
出现了非期待中的结果, 用in the end,
还可以用于预卜未来。如:
They talked about it for hours.
Finally, they decided not to go.
2)The children arrived home at last/
in the end after the storm.
3) My dream will come true in the end.
4) The war lasted four years before the
North won _______________.
5) Your idea will turn out right
_________.
6) _______, I want to thank you for
helping me.
in the end/ at last
in the end
Finally
5. It is my sister who first had the idea
to cycle along the entire Mekong River
from where it begins to where it ends.
首先想到要沿湄公河从源头到终点骑车
旅游的是我的姐姐。
这是一个强调句。
其基本结构为: It is/was + 被强调部分
+ that-/who- 从句
如果强调的部分是人,可用who,也可用that, 强调其他成分与内容都用that。
注意
e. g. It was in Shanghai that I saw the film.
(强调地点状语) 我看这部电影是在上海。
强调时间和地点不能用when或where,只用that。
We had a meeting in the meeting room
yesterday afternoon.
It was ____ ________ had a meeting in the
meeting room yesterday afternoon.
It was __________ ______ we had in the
meeting room yesterday afternoon.
It was ____________________ ______ we
had a meeting yesterday afternoon.
It was ____________________ ______ we
had a meeting in the meeting room.
we
who/that
a meeting
that
in the meeting room
that
yesterday afternoon
that
高考链接
1)Was it ___ that I saw last night at the
concert
you B. not you
C. that yourself
2)It was because of bad weather ____
the football match had to be put off.
so B. so that
C. why D. that
A
D
6. Now she is planning our schedule
for the trip.
schedule 在此用作名词, 意为“时间表,
一览表”等, 构成的常见短语有:
on schedule 按照计划
ahead of schedule 先于预定时间
behind schedule 迟于预定时间 如:
The workers don’t mind the new work
schedule.
They finished the building two weeks
ahead of schedule.
[拓展] schedule还可用作动词, 意为“安排,
计划, 预定”等。如:
The elections are scheduled for mid-June.
Meetings are scheduled to take place
all over the country.
scheduled flight /service意为“定期航班”。
如: Prices include scheduled flights from
the Hongqiao Airport.
7. stubborn
1) He is too stubborn to apologize.
2) You’ll have to push hard, that door is
a bit stubborn.
3) The old man has got a stubborn cough
that has lasted for weeks.
(as) stubborn as a mule
倔强的, 固执的
难以移动的
难以治愈的
insist on/upon one’s doing sth 坚持做,
坚决做
e.g. I insisted on/upon his coming with us.
2) insist that +从句 坚持说(后表示一个
事实), 后接的从句用陈述语气, 即按
需要选择时态。
8. insist : declare firmly
坚持认为, 坚持主张
3) insist that sb. (should) do sth. 坚决主张做某事, 后接的宾语从句常用虚拟语气, 既 “should +v.”
e.g. Mary was ill. Her parents insisted that she (should) see a doctor.
e.g. He insisted that he hadn’t stolen the girl’s handbag.
I insisted that a doctor ___ immediately.
has been sent for B. sent for
C. will be sent for D. be sent for
高考链接
D
9. My sister doesn’t care about details.
我姐姐是不会考虑细节的。
(1)care about 关心, 在意, 担心
Don’t you care about his future
The only thing he seems to care about
is money.
(2)care for: 照顾; 喜欢
Who will care for the children if
their mother dies
Would you care for a drink
He thanked the nurses who had
cared for him.
Would you care for another drink
He likes pop and doesn’t care for
classic music.
care还可作名词, 常见短语有:
take care (to do sth/that clause) 当心, 注意;
take care with/over sth 注意
take care of 照顾, 照料; 处理, 对付
with care 小心地。如:
Take care not to drop the glass on the ground.
Who’s taking care of the dog while you’re away
Take care that the meat is cooked properly.
The picture had been drawn with great care.
10. She gave me a determined look—the kind
hat said she would not change her mind.
determined adj. 有决心的; 坚决的”。 如:
Emily is a very determined woman.
She was determined to win.
He was determined that the same mistakes
would not be repeated.
determine v. “决定; 确定; 下定决心”。 如:
He determined to go at once.
He has not determined what he will study.
11. at an altitude of = at a height of
在海拔……米处
The plane is flying at a height / altitude
of 10, 000 feet.
at 在此处表“在……处/时, 以……” 。
后接年龄, 速度, 长宽深高, 价格, 费用等。
at the age of at a high / low price
at a depth/width of at the cost of
at a distance of
12. Once she has made up her mind,
nothing can change it.
她一旦下了决心, 什么也不能使她改变。
(1)once可做连词引导状语从句, 意为
“一旦”, 如:
Once you listen to the song, you will
never forget it.
once 做副词, 意为“一次” (for one time);
“曾经”(in the past)
He goes to the cinema once a week.
This book was once very popular but
no one reads it today.
once 的常见短语:
at once 立即 all at once 突然
once more 再一次
once a while 偶尔
(2)make up one’s mind 下定决心, 作出决定 如:
I wish he’d hurry up and make his mind up.
He couldn’t make up his mind about what
to do with the money.
You’re old enough to make your own
mind up about smoking.
You’d make your mind up whether to go there.
He has make up his mind that he will
buy a new house.
mind用作名词时, 构成的常见短语还有:
change one’s mind 改变主意、决定
keep sth in mind 记住某事
have sb/sth in mind 心中考虑到某人/某物
read one’s mind 看出某人的心思
speak one’s mind 直言不讳
give/ put one’s mind 专心于 如:
He was afraid that his mother would change
her mind and take him back home.
It’s a good idea and I’ll keep it in mind.
It was a nice house, but it wasn’t quite
what we had in mind.
13. Finally, I had to give in.
give in (to sb./sth.) 屈服于, 让步 如:
1) He would rather die than give in.
2) Wang Kun had to give in because he knew his sister well.
3) Please give your examination papers in ( to the teacher) when you’ve finished.
屈服
让步
上交
give up 放弃, 认输
give out 筋疲力尽; 分配
give away 捐赠, 泄露
give off 发出(光、气味); 长出
(枝、杈)
---Smoking is bad for your health.
---Yes, I know. But I simply can’t ____.
A. give it up B. give it out
C. give it in D. give it away
A
1) After the long trip, both the men and the horses ________.
2) Because of his small salary, he had to _______ his dream trip to Europe.
3) Seeing that he could not persuade me, he had to ________ my view.
gave out
gave up
gave in to
练一练
4) He _________ most of his fortune to
the poor.
5) Please keep the secret, don’t ____ it
______.
6) I _______ trying to persuade him
to continue with his studies.
7) The government refused to ______
to their demands.
gave away
gave
away
gave up
give in
14. It becomes rapids as it passes through deep valleys, traveling across western Yunnan Province. 穿过深谷流经云南省西部时它变成急流。
across
through
prep. 穿过
across 常表示从一定范围的一边到另一边或事物交叉位置, “横穿, 横跨” 表面, 含义与on 有关
through 表达两边穿过或穿过空间内部, 含义与in 有关
over 表示“越过” 是指越过较高的物体从一侧到另一侧
辨析:
15. It makes wide bends or meanders
through low valleys to the plains
where rice grows.
河水蜿蜒缓慢地穿过低谷, 流向生长
稻谷的平原。
The new railway winds its way to Hong Kong,
___ mountains ___ tunnels and ___ rivers.
A. across; over; through
B. over; across; through
C. over; through; across
D. through; over; across
C
16. An attitude is what a person thinks
about something.
attitude是名词, 意为“态度; 看法”。 如:
I want to make a complaint for his bad
attitude.
What is your attitude towards this
question
As you get older your attitude towards
death changes.
Practice
1. 这个小女孩梦想成为流行歌星。
(dream about)
_______________________________
_______________________________
2. 我决定不听他的劝告。(determine)
________________________________
The little girl dreamed about
becoming a pop star.
I deternined not to follow his advice.
3. 说服他放弃这个计划很难。(persuade)
_________________________________
_________________________________
4. 最后, 我不得不做出让步。(give in)
__________________________________
5. 他总是喜欢和小孩子玩。(be fond of)
__________________________________
It’s difficult to persuade him to give
up this plan.
Finally, I had to give in.
He is always fond of playing with children.
Some proverbs:
Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于有毅力者。
Hitch your wagon to a star.
树雄心, 立大志。
No success in life merely happens.
人生中没有什么成功是纯粹偶然得来的。
Imagine you are helping the cyclists to
prepare for their trip down the Mekong.
Which of the following objects is the
most useful And your reasons
tent
compass
map
raincoat
can & bottle
openers
radio
tyre/ tire
blanket
flashlight
umbrella
matches
water bottle
Homework
1. Try to write a travel plan according to
the questions above.
2. Underline useful words and expressions
in the text.