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必修一 Unit 3 Travel Journal
Reading
Introduction
In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to imagine and share their views about the role of river in life. They will then be helped to read a narration entitled JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. It’s about two students taking a trip down a river.
Examples of “Warming Up” designs are presented in this book for teachers’ reference. Computer and overhead projector may be used to aid the teaching and learning.
Objectives
■ To help students read a travel journal
■ To help students better understand “traveling down a river”
■ To help students understand and use some important words and expressions
■ To help students identify examples of the present progressive tense: expressing futurity in the text
Focus
Words
transport, prefer, flow, persuade, graduate, schedule, organize
Expressions
ever since, be fond of, change one’s mind, make up one’s mind, give in, as usual, at midnight
Patterns
When are we leaving and when are we coming back?
Then she persuaded me to buy one.后来她说服我买了一个。
Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling too.
She insisted that she organize the trip properly.
Finally, I had to give in.
Aids
Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams
Procedure
1. Warming up
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⑴Warming up by discussing
Good morning, class. Do you like traveling? Why do you like traveling? And why don’t you like traveling? Where have you ever been before? How did you get there? If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transportations will you use and why? Now look at the following pictures and discuss it in pairs.
Name of the transportations
Means of transportation
Reasons
by car (in a car)
by bike
by plane (by air)
by train ( on a train)
by bus ( on a bus)
by ship (by water or by boat)
in a hot balloon
by motorbike (on a motorbike)
by jeep
by truck
⑵Warming up by looking and speaking
Now boys and girls, what do you need to take with you if you are preparing for a bike trip along the Changjiang River? Look at the pictures and tell the whole class which object you think is the most useful and which one is the least useful. Give a reason why you think so.
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⑶Warming up by asking and answering
Now suppose you live in Qinghai. You plan to take a holiday with a friend somewhere in Southeast Asia. You have been given a chance to choose three places to visit. Please find out the one-way fare to get there for different kinds of transportation. Perhaps you may not know the exact fare, but you can guess how much the fare is. Please have a short discussion with your partners and then decide where to go.
Ok, now I’d like you to ask your partner the following questions.
1. Where are you going on holiday? 2. When are you leaving? 3. How are you going to…?
4. When are you arriving in/at…? 5. Where are you staying? 6. How long are you staying there? 7. When are you coming back?
2. Pre-reading by talking and sharing
As we all know, there are a lot of rivers in the world and also there are many great rivers. Now look at the chart. In the left column are names of some great rivers. In the right column are locations where the rivers lie. Please match them.
match
answer
Names of River
Location
Names of River
Location
Mekong
India
Mekong
China，SE Asia
Rhine
France
Rhine
Germany
Ganges
Russia
Ganges
India
Seine
England
Seine
France
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Nile
Central Africa
Nile
Egypt
Thames
Germany
Thames
England
Congo
Brazil
Congo
Central Africa
Niger
China, SE Asia
Niger
West Africa
Volga
US
Volga
Russia
Danube
Egypt
Danube
Central Europe
Amazon
West Africa
Amazon
Brazil
Mississippi
Central Europe
Mississippi
US
3. Reading aloud to the recording
Today we’re going to read a passage about JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. Please listen and read aloud about the recording of the text JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG on page 18. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.
4. Reading and underlining
Now please read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
Collocations from JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG
dream about, take a great bike trip, graduate from, got the chance to do sth., cycle along the river, go for long bike rides, persuade sb. to do sth., get sb. interested in sth., be stubborn, know the best way of getting to places, the source of the river, change one’s mind, at an altitude of, the air be hard to breathe, an interesting experience, make up one’s mind, give in, a large atlas with good maps, pass through, be surprised to do sth, half of
5. Reading aloud once again and understanding
Next we are going to read aloud the text once again and then answer some questions.
1) Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? (They are brother and sister, and both are college students.)
2) What was their dream? (Their dream was to take a great bike trip.)
3) Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? (They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a college in Kunming.)
4) 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.)
5) What can you see when you travel along the Mekong? (You can see glacier, rapids, hill, valleys, waterfalls and plains.)
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1) Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why? (Yes. The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.)
6. Reading and summing up
We shall go over the text once more to complete the chart below.
Type of writing and summary of the idea
Type of writing
This is a travel journal.
Main idea of the passage
Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s dream of taking a great bike trip
Topic sentence of 1st paragraph
Wang Wei first having the idea to cycle along the Mekong River
Topic sentence of 2nd paragraph
Wang Wei insisting finding the source of the river and begin our journey there
Topic sentence of 3rd paragraph
We finding a large atlas with good maps that showed the details of the world geography
7. Making a diagram of the text
Next try to turn out a diagram of the text to see its organization.
Wang Kun and his sister to take a bike trip
Wang Kun’s sister organizing the trip properly
Information about Mekong River
8. Retelling the text with the help of the diagram in about 200 words
Retelling can be fun and useful. Next we are to retell the story in the third person. And we shall make use of the diagram above.
One possible version：See II in Part 3 Teaching Assessment
9. Discussing in groups
We have got the general meaning of the passage, and we know Wang Wei and Wang Kun have some similar and
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different attitudes about the trip. You may have a short discussion with your partners and then fill in the chart.
Similar attitudes about the trip
Different attitudes about the trip
Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun thinks:
1) taking this trip is a dream that comes true.
2) that they will enjoy this trip a lot.
3) they should see a lot of the Mekong.
4) that most of the Mekong will be found in Southeast Asia.
Wang Wei believes:
1) they must start in Qinghai where the river begins/see all of the Mekong.
2) that they don’t need to prepare much.
Wang Kun believes:
1) it is too cold and high to start in Qinghai.
2) that using an atlas is very important.
10. Closing down by taking a quiz
Fill in the blanks to complete the summary of the text.
I have long dreamed about taking a great 1_____ trip along the Mekong River. After graduation from college in 2002 I finally 2 _____ the chance to cycle along the river. In order to 3 _____ for long bike rides, I bought a very 4 _____ mountain bike. I persuaded my 5 _____ to cycle with me. We grew up in the city, and 6 _____ had long hoped to go outside the city. So I 7 _____ her interested in cycling along the river. 8 _____ she is stubborn. She thought she knew 9 _____ best way of getting to places. But actually she had 10 _____ idea of the source of the river. And she 11 _____ little about the details of planning. I then 12 _____ her a determined look and changed my 13 _____. We got onto an altitude of 5,000 meters. 14 _____ seemed to be excited about the 15 _____ air there. But then we found it was hard to breathe. 16 _____ back I think it was really an 17 _____ experience. I have made up my mind to 18 _____ up my job next week. I would buy a large atlas 19 _____ good maps. I would keep 20 _____ all my life, exploring the earth.
(Keys: 1 bike 2 got 3 go 4 strong 5 sister 6 we 7 got 8 But 9 the 10 no 11 cared 12 gave 13 mind 14 She 15 fresh 16 Looking 17 interesting 18 give 19 with 20 cycling )
Work out the structure and vocabulary questions.
1. It was my father _____ first had the idea to walk around the world.
2. I am determined to cycle along the Yellow River form _____it begins to where I ends.
3. We are _____and grew up in the north China mountains near the Zhang River.
4. He insisted that we _____for a long bike trip along the river.
5. The teacher gave me a determined look—the kind _____said she wouldn’t cycle any further with me.
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4. _____she has fallen asleep, nothing can awake her.
5. We found a book with beautiful poems that showed _____of her love towards the nature.
6. The road became narrow _____it passes through deep valleys, traveling across northern Shanxi Province.
(Keys: 1. who, 2. where, where, 3. Han, 4. go, 5. that, 6. Once, 7. details, 8. as )
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