讲课人：陈献勤外语系 03 级 2 班 20030614070

Unit3 Going places

ⅠRevision•consider•means•transportation•board•destination

ⅡPre-reading• Try to answer such questions as follows:

• 1 Do you like traveling? Why or why not?

• 2 Where would you most like to travel? Why?

• 3 What do you think adventure travel is?

Ⅲ Text analyzing

• Read the text as quickly as possible with three questions:

• 1 Why do people travel?• 2 What are the places, equipment, cost, skills

needed, and possible dangers of hiking?• 3 What are the places, equipment, cost, skills

needed, and possible dangers of rafting?

•Ⅳ Listening• Please listen to the text carefully

and pay attention to the language points that you do not understand.

Ⅳ Language point

1 experience n./v• e.g.1 The actors came to the countryside to

~ life there. (v.)• e.g.2 Mr. Black is ~d in surgery. (p. p)• e.g.3 I’ll never forget that terrible ~.(n.<C>)• e.g.4 Mr. Liu is rich in ~.(n.<U>)

• e.g. 1 Students ~~~school at 5:00. (leave)

• e.g.2 You can’t ~~~the fact that it would cost you a lot of money. (deny)

• e.g.3 Keats went to Italy to ~~~the cold weather of England. (escape/avoid)

2 get away from

• e.g.1 We should have fish ~~tomatoes today. (~~+n.)

• e.g.2 Let’s dance ~~ singing. (~~+doing)

• e.g.3 We’ll held the party at home ~~ in the restaurant. (~~+prep. phrase)

3 instead of

4 close to Vs. close in

• e.g.1 My home is very close to the school. (not far from somewhere)

• e.g.2 We are very close in interest. (be similar in some aspect)

• Watch out!

• Watch out for dangers!

• go for +something

• a hike • a walk • a run • a swim• a drink

Ⅴ Summary and homework

• please finish the post-reading part after class!

Reasons for people’s traveling

• to see other countries;• to visit places that are famous,

interesting, or beautiful;• to meet new friends;• to try new kinds of food;• to experience life in other part parts of

the world;• to get away from cold weather;• for an unusual experience.

hiking rafting

places mountain, forest, city, river

rivers and streams

equipment

shoes, clothes, backpack, map, water, hat…

boat, paddles, life jacket

cost inexpensive a little expensive

skills needed

walking skills rafting and swimming skills

possible dangers

lost, sunburn, poisonous things, thirst and hunger

hitting rocks, trees, falling into water

• Watch out for dangers.• If you want a normal rafting trip, choose a

quiet steam or river that is wide and has few fallen trees and rocks.

• The name “whitewater” comes from the fact that the water in these streams and rivers looks white when it moves quickly.

• As with hiking, you should always think about your Hiking is easy to do.

• safety wear good clothes.

reading

Words