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 )