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Unit 3 Travel journal Reading
Look at the pictures please !
Recollect the passage you've learned.
Recollect the passage you've learned.
Recall the scene in the passage when reading.
Read the passage aloud please.
Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks.
1. My name is Wang Kun. __________ middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about ______________________ .
Ever since
taking a great bike trip
expensive mountain bike
persuaded
2. Two years ago she bought an ____________________ and then she __________ persuaded me to buy one.
Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks.
5. After _____________ from college, we finally got the chance to _______________ .
6. It was my sister who __________________ to cycle along the entire Mekong River
take a bike trip
graduating
from_______________ to where it ends.
first had the idea
where it begins
Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks.
7. Now she is _________________ for the trip. I am fond of my
sister but she has one
__________________ .
8. She can be really __________ . Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places,
serious shortcoming
planning our schedule
she insisted that she _______________ properly.
stubborn
organize the trip
Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks.
9. I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet. Of course she hadn’t; my sister ___________________ details.
10. I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai
doesn’t care about
a determined
change her mind.
Province. She gave me ____________ look -- the kind that said she would not _______________
Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks.
11. When I told her that our journey would begin at __________ of more than 5,000 meters, she seemed ____________ about it.
to be excited
an altitude
12. When I told her the air would be _______________ and it would be very cold, she said it would be _____________________ .
hard to breathe
an interesting experience
Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks.
13. I know my sister well. Once she has __________________ , nothing can change it. Finally, I had to __________ .
give in
made up her mind
Wang Wei and I went to the library. We found a large atlas with good maps _________________ of world geography.
before our trip
that showed details
14. Several months _____________,
The Exercise 1: comprehension
1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s idea of a good trip?
2. Who planned to trip to the Mekong?
3. Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea does it enter?
4. What can you see When you travel along the Mekong?
The Exercise 1: comprehension
5. What difficulties did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey?
6. What do you think about Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s idea of a good trip?
Their idea was to take a long bike trip.
Wang Wei Planned the trip
2. Who planned to trip to the Mekong?
The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.
You can see the source glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and Plans.
3. Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea does it enter?
4. What can you see When you travel along the Mekong?
The journey will begin at altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breath and very cold.
6. What do you think about Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
The possible answers:
5. What difficulties did Wang kun and Wang Wei find about their journey?
Wang Kun’s character:
Wang Wei’s character:
enthusiastic, critical, sensible.
organized, eager, persistent, stubborn, risk-taking
The Exercise 2: explain them in your own words
1. She gave me a determined look -- the kind that said she would not change her mind.
2. ... my sister does not care about the details.
3. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.
The sentence means that she has decided to do something and will not change her ideas.
The possible answers:
1. She gave me a determined look -- the kind that said she would not change her mind.
2. ... my sister does not care about the details.
It means that she concentrates on the broad outline of the trip but not the particulars: where they will stay, what they will take with them etc.
A meander is a geographical term to describe the snakelike bends that a river makes as it slows down to flow through valleys to the plains.
The possible answers:
3. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.
The sentence means that the Mekong River flows slowly and gently through the valleys and reaches the farming plains.
Positive to the trip. She wants to organize it as it was her idea.
Less positive to the trip as he wants to organize it and thinks he can do that better than his sister.
The possible answer to the exercise 3:
Wang Wei’s attitude:
Wang Kun’s attitude:
My attitude:
It sounds like a wonderful trip and I would love to be able to do trip like that myself one day.
Exercise 4: Work in pairs
WW: You know we’ve always wanted to do a long bike trip. Why don’t we go on after we graduate from college?
WK: That’s a good idea. But where are we going?
WW: What about cycling along the Mekong River?
WK: It sounds interesting, but how do you want to plan it?
WW: I think we should do it properly. We must find the source of the river and start from there.
WW = Wang Wei
WK = Wang Kun
Exercise 4: Work in pairs
WK: Well, the Mekong River begins in Qinghai Province. That means we’re going to be cycling at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters.
WW: Oh, I think that’s exciting, don’t you?
WK: Remember that the air will be hard to breathe and it’ll be very cold.
WW: That’s going to make it an interesting experience.
WW = Wang Wei
WK = Wang Kun
Exercise 4: Work in pairs
WK: I wish you weren’t so stubborn. You don’t know where it is but you still insist that you know better than anyone else. Now I know that the proper way is always your way, but have you looked at a map yet?
WW: No, I haven’t. That’s just a detail !
WK: OK. I can see by your determined look that you won’t change your mind.
WW = Wang Wei
WK = Wang Kun
(means we didn’t know this)
(means we thought that maybe more than half was in China)
The possible answer to the exercise 5:
* We were both surprised to learn that half the river is in China.
* We were both surprised to learn that half the river is in China.
* We were both surprised to learn that Half the river is in China.
(means that we didn’t know that half the river is in China)
1. Reviewed the text.
2. Finished the exercises on the textbook.
3. Listened to the passage in the class.
4. Fill in the blanks according to what you hear.
5. Learned how to discuss and plan a journey.
We've learned the following in the class:
1. Review the usage of the words and phrases in the passage and recited.
2. Finish the exercises and read the reading passage aloud, recite some of the sentence.
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