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Book1 Unit 3Travel journal
leading-in
Now class do you like traveling? If so, where did you like to go?
Now let’s share some pictures and guess where it is.
Tian’anmen Square The Great Wall
Mount Huang The Trunk Mountain
Eiffel Tower 巴黎艾菲尔铁塔( 位于塞纳河南岸 )
Mount Fuji
The Statue of Liberty
The MoonMount Qomolongma
(Mount Everest)
If you have a chance to go to one of these places, how will you go there?What kind of transport do you prefer to use?
on foot by bikeby motor
by bus
by car
by train
by ship/boat/sea
by plane/ air
by spaceship
Transport Advantages Disadvantages
bus
train
ship
airplane
1.very cheap2.can go to small towns/cities
very slow
1.faster than the bus. 2.cheaper than the plane
slower than the plane
1.cheaper than the plane2.comfortable
1.The slowest2.more expensive than the train or bus
1.very quick2.comfortable
1.expensive2.journey ends far from the city
……
How do people who live along a river make use of it?
Brain
go swimming
travel along it
to irrigate their fields
to make electricity
storming
Here are some famous rivers in China. Do you
know their names?
This river is called our mother river.
The Yellow River
This river is the longest one in China.
The Yangtze River
This is the famous river in Guangdong Province.
The Pearl River
The Lancang River – 澜沧江
In China it is called
Out of China, it is calledOut of China, it is called
the Mekong Riverthe Mekong River
China
Thailand
Burma(Myanmar)
Cambodia
Vietnam
the Mekong River flows through:
Laos
Names of rivers Location
Mekong river
Seine
Nile
Congo
Amazon
Mississippi
Thames
Danube
England
Egypt
Central Africa
US
France
China, Southeast Asia
Brazil
Central Europe
The great rivers in the world
Read the whole passage quickly and decide which is the main idea of the passage
A. 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.
Detailed Reading
para1 :
Find the background information:
1. How many people are mentioned in the 1st paragraph, and what is their relationship?
2. What was their dream and what was Wang Wei’s idea about their dream?
1. 4 people. Wang Kun&Wang Wei. (brother and sister) and Dao Wei&Yu Hang(cousins of Wang Kun&Wang Wei)
1. How many people are mentioned in the 1st paragraph, and what is their relationship?
1.What was Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s idea
of a good trip?
Their idea was to take a great bike trip.
To ___ _____the Mekong
River from ______ it
______to _____ it _____.
cycle along
where
begins where ends
2. Who planed the trip
to the Mekong?
Wang Wei.
Para2:
1.Did wang wei know the best way of getting to places?Is Wang Wei a thoughtful person? why?
2. Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong?
Yes.
No. Because she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, paid no attention to details, and she didn’t look at any maps.
5. What difficulties did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey?
The journey would begin at an altitude of more than
meters, where it is hard to and
very .
5,000breathe
cold
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.
Para3What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?
It begins in a ______ on a ______ _________.
glacier Tibetanmountain
Then, it______ quickly. It becomes______ as it passes through deep _____.
movesrapids valleys
Sometimes, the river becomes a _______ and enters ____ _____ .wide valleys
waterfall
At last, the river _____ enters the South China Sea.
delta
It makes wide bends or meanders through lowvalleys to the ___________ where rice grows.
plains
Match each word to the proper meanings
1. rapid
2. waterfall
3. glacier
4. delta
5. plain
a. A high place from which a river suddenly goes down
b. A large flat place
c. A fast-moving part of a river
d. A large body of ice moving slowly down a high valley
e. The low place where a river enters the sea.
True or True or False?False?
1.Dao Wei and Yu Huang belong to the Han nationality.
2. Some of the Dai live in Western Yunnan.
3.The Mekong River is in China and it includes the Lancang River.
( F )
( T )
( F )
4. Although it is not easy to travel along the Mekong River, Wang Wei insisted on doing so.
5. The Tibetan Mountain where the Mekong River begins is 5,000 meters high.
( T )
( F )
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