My First Ride on a Train
Ghan
The
Sydney Opera House
Do you know what it is?
kangaroo
Koala bear
platypus
Kangaroos
Great Barrier Reef
Can you guess?
Alice Springs
Sydney
Australia
a child visiting her grandmother
What does the passage mainly talk about?
a train ride to Sydney
taking the train to Australia
traveling to the central part of Australia
Fast reading
Match the main idea with each para.
I had my first ride on a long-distance train.
What did I do on the train?
Why is the train called the Ghan?
Para 1.
Para 2.
Para 3.
Para 4.
Para 5.
Para 6.
What did I see on the train?
What were the camels used to do?
What happened to the camels in the 1920s?
Fast reading
Careful reading
who
Alice, an ____________ girl, comes from_______ ,together with a friend
where
They _______in Sydney
and______ in Alice Springs, which is__________ of Australia
how
Recently, she had her ___ ride on a __________ train,the famous Ghan train.
Read para.1 and fill in the table
18-year-old
Sydney
got on
got off
in the middle
first
long-distance
Read para.2 and 3 and finish the map
The map of the travel
Sydney
Alice Springs
colorful
great meals 1.
______by experts
For the first few hundred kms, the scenery was 2.
_________.
After that,it was
3._______.The sun 4.______
Suddenly, it looked like a place from 5._________
During the day ,she 6. ____________ the window and listened to Chinese 7. _______
At about midnight , the stars shone like _8.__________
cooked
____.
desert
shone
another time
looked out of
cassetes
diamonds
we ate great meals cooked by experts.
we ate great meals which were cooked by experts.
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Read para. 4, 5 and 6 and check
True or False
1. The train is called the Ghan because of horses from
Afghanistan.
2.After building a new railway line,the camels aren't needed.
camels
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Paragraph 5
She tells
She describes
She explains
A. the origin of the Ghan train and the means of transport for traveling a long distance in the past .
B. when and where their travel took place.
the scenery all the journey.
Retell the passage again and fill in the gap
Alice Thompson made her first long-distance train ride at the age of _____. She got on in _______ and got off in Alice Springs. They ate meals cooked by _______. They saw fields, soil, desert and _____________ farms which were built over 100 years ago. On the train, Alice talked to other ___________ and studied Chinese. She watched the night sky and found stars, which shone like__________.
Why is the train called the Ghan? It is short for _____________. The Afghans trained the ________ to carry food and supplies. They did this until _________, when the ____________ built a new railway line.
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Sydney
experts
abandoned
passengers
diamonds
Afghanistan
camels
the 1920s
government
Group work
Our unforgettable hike
Our unforgettable hike
when
where
who
what we did
what we saw
how we felt
never
never
never
give
up
!
Winston Churchill
Homework
Write a short passage about a trip you made in about 100 words.