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Unit 3 Travel journal

Chuanliao High School

Zhao Bijun

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……

How do people who live beside a river make use of it?

Brain

go swimming

travel along a river

to irrigate( 灌溉 )their fields

to make electricity

storming

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Yangtze River

Amazon

The world has many great rivers. Can you guess what the names of these rivers are?

Yellow River

Pearl River( 珠江 )

Nile

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Names of river Location( 位置 )

MekongRhine 莱茵河

NileCongo 刚果

Amazon 亚马逊河

MississippiThames[temz] 泰晤士河

England

Egypt

Central Africa

the US

Germany

China,SE Asia

Brazil

Discuss in pairs and match the great rivers with their locations( 位置 ) in the world in the following form.

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Laos

Thailand

Myanmar

Cambodia

Vietnam

Which countries does the Mekong River flow through?

China

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Journey down the MekongReading

What’s the difference between the Lancang River and the Mekong River?

7the Lancang River – 澜沧江

In China it is called

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Out of China, it is called

the Mekong River

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Decide which is the main idea of the passage

A. The author and his sister’s plan about their winter holiday.

B. The experience during the author and his sister’s trip in Qinghai.

C. The author and his sister’s plan and preparations for their trip.

D. anecdotes( 轶事） that happened during their trip. 　

Skimming

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Read and find the main idea of each paragraph:

A.Preparation

B.Dream

C.A stubborn sister

DreamDream

PreparationPreparation

A stubborn sisterA stubborn sister

Paragraph 1:_____________

Paragraph 2:_____________

Paragraph 3:_____________

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Scanning

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Discuss

the text

in details.

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Who and what

Wang Kun and ___ ____ Wang Wei are

dreaming about_____________________.

his sister

taking a great bike trip

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Where and How

They have the idea to

___ _____the Mekong

River from ______ it

______to _____ it _____.

cycle along

where

begins where ends

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A stubborn sister---Wang Wei

She is a ________ girl and has a serious ____________. She

doesn’t _____ _______ details and never change her ______

easily. She visited her _______ and got them ___________ in

cycling too.

stubbornshortcoming

care aboutmind

cousinsinterested

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Can you use some adjectives to describe Wang Wei ?

stubborn curious brave determined crazy excited organized careless imaginative persistent risk-taking

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What can they see along What can they see along the Mekong?the Mekong?

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glacierwaterfall plain

valley

delta

rapids

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What can they see during the journey?

It begins in a ______ on a ______ _________.

glacier Tibetanmountain

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Then, it______ quickly. It becomes______ as it passes through deep _____.

movesrapids valleys

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Sometimes, the river becomes a _______ and enters ____ _____ .wide valleys

waterfall

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At last, the river _____ entersthe South China Sea.

delta

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Comprehending1. What was Wang Kun and Wang We

i’s idea of a good trip?

2. Who planned the trip to the Mekong?

3. Where is the source of the Mekong

River and which sea does it enter?

4. What can you see when you travel al

ong the Mekong?

5. What difficulties did Wang Kun and

Wang Wei find about their journey?

Their idea was to take a long bike trip.

Wang Wei planned the trip .

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 plains.

The journey will begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres,where it is hard to

breathe and very cold.

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Paragraph 1: DreamParagraph 1: Dream

Since middle school…Since middle school…

When we graduated from college…When we graduated from college…

Two years ago…Two years ago…

Last year…Last year…

my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.

we finally got the chance to do it.

she bought an expensive mountain bike. Then she persuaded me to buy one.

she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming.

Now…… She is planning our schedule for the trip.

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Information about the River

The Mekong River begins in a _____ on a Tibetan mountain

At first, the river is_____ ,and the water is _____ and______

Then it begins to move ______ It becomes ______ as it passes

through deep valleys, traveling across western Yunnan

Province. Sometimes the river enters wide _______ and be-

comes a _____ . The Mekong becomes ____,_____,and___

after it leaves China. As it enters Southeast Asia, it travels

______ through hills and low valleys, and the plains.

glacier

small clear cold

quickly rapids

valleys

waterfall wide brown warm

slowly

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①The Mekong River which is called the Lancang River in China begins in a ______ on a Tibetan mountain and enters the ________________ at last. ②At first the river is small and the water is ______ and cold. Then it begins to move ______. After it leaves China and high altitude, it becomes wide, brown and warm. As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. ③Sometimes it becomes ______, sometimes it becomes a waterfall.

Information about the River

glacier

South China Sea

clearquickly

rapids

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Some proverbs :

Success belongs to the persevering.

胜利属于有毅力者。

No success in life merely happens.

人生中没有什么成功是纯粹偶然得来的。

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Find the words from the text that mean the same

diarythe price, expensea means or system of carrying passengers from one place to anotherat last,in the endride a bikemake sb to do sthWith a strong will,determinedTo declare firmly

journal

transport

finallycycle

persuadestubborn

insist

fare

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decide The height of an object

or place above sea levelAn area of land lying between two lines of hills or mountainsA feeling or thinking about sb or sth

determinealtitude

valley

attitude