山东临清英语课件：必修一：Module3 reading

(共19张PPT)
Reading
Module 3
My First Ride on a Train
Koala Bear
Kangaroo
Sydney Opera House
澳大利亚联邦（The Commonwealth of Australia）
by air
by sea
Which part of Australia did the writer travel to
The central part of Australia.
1. It is the 6th large country in the world, but has a relatively small population.
2.There are 19,731,984 people living there.
Fast reading
1. Try to find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Para 1:
Para 2:
Para 3:
Para 4:
Para 5:
Para 6:
I had my first ride on a long distance train
The scenery along the railway
How I spent the time in the train
Why is the train called Ghan
Things about the camels
The fate of the camels nowadays
Read the passage quickly and silently, judge T or F and correct the error:
1. Alice got on in Alice Springs,and got off in Sydney.( )
2. The scenery of the whole journey is very colorful. ( )
3. On the train,Alice still studied. ( )
4. They used camels instead of horses because horses are
not good at traveling a long distance. ( )
5.The government built a new railway line in 1925.( )
F
F
T
T
F
Name:
Come from:
Age:
Things she did recently:
The first few hundred KM:
After that:
Day:
Night:
A long time ago:
150 years ago:
Until the 1920s:
Alice Thompson
Sydney,Australia
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First ride/Ghan train;got on in/got off in
Colourful/ fields/ soil/ dark red
Sat and looked out of /talked to/read and listened to
Watched sky/the stars shone like
Needed a way to/tried riding /but didn’t like
Brought camels/Afghanistan/better than
Built/railway line/didn’t need/any more
Desert /sun shone/ no wind/ no clouds/
saw abandoned farms
1.Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago
2.Was her destination on the coast of Australia
3.Was the scenery the same during the whole journey
4.Did she study while she was on the train
5.Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country
6.Do they still use camels to deliver goods
( Paragraph 1, Line 3 )
( Paragraph 1, Line 7 )
( Paragraph 2, Line 3 )
( Paragraph 3, Line 4 )
( Paragraph 4 , Line 6 )
( Paragraph 6, Line 1)
1. No . She travelled on the train recently.
2. No, it was Alice Springs in the central part of Australia.
3. No, at the first there were fields , then it was desert.
4. Yes, she studied Chinese.
5. Yes , at first , but the horses didn’t like the hot weather.
6. No, they use the train now.
Fill in the blanks:
Recently I had my first ride on a __________ train
with my friends, We ____ two days on the train.For the first few hundreds kilometers of the journey,the _____ was very colorful, suddenly ,we saw __________ farms.During the day,I sat and looked out of the window,and talked to
the other _________. I listed to my Chinese _______.At midnight, the stars shone like ______ .Why was the train called Ghan A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country.They tried________ horses, but the horses didn’t like the hot weather and sand.They brought camels from__________.Camels are much better than horses for _______a long distance.Then the government built a new ________ line, so they didn’t
need the camels any more.
long-distance
spent
scenery
abandoned
passengers
cassettes
diamonds
riding
Afghanistan
traveling
railway
Reading
What’s passage about
The writer travelled on a train taking him to Alice Springs, right in the middle of Austrilia.
Say sth. about your travel:
When:
Where:
With whom:
How did you go there:
What did you do and see:
What’s your feeling:
Homework:
1.Write a summary of the passage.
2.Write a composition about your trip.
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