Discussion 1. What adjectives will use to describe
Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
2.Which one of them do you like better, and why?
3.What can you learn from the story?
3,You can see glacier, rapids ,hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.
Glacier
Rapids Valley
Waterfalls
Plain
Delta
Similar attitudes about the trip
Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think…
They are brother and sister,
and both are college students.
2.Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
They are Wang Kun’s cousins who
are at a college in Kunming.
3. What was their dream?
Their dream was to take a great bike trip.
Dream and plan
Dream Preparation
To take a bike trip
1. Get two others interested (why) 2. Buy the mountain bike (basic equipment) 3. Library (learn about the destination)
Map of the Mekong
Lancang River
Mekong South sea
Skimming
1. Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? 3. What was their dream?
1.Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
1. it is too cold and high to start in Qinghai. 2. that using an atlas is very important.
Their dream
Wang Wei’s suggestion
Taking a great bike trip.
Finding_th__e_s__o_u_r_c_e_ and
Different attitudes about the trip
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,The source of the river is in Qinghai province and it enters the South China sea.
2,Yes. The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000metres, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.
mountain, moves quickly and passes through_d_e_e_p__v_a_l_le_y_s. Half of it is in China. It enters the__S_o_u_t_h_e_a_s_t _A_s_ia_. Then it travels slowly through hills and low valleys and plains, at last it enters_th_e__S_o_u_t_h_C__h_in_a__S_e_a_.
Unit 3 Travel Journal
The great rivers in the world
Names of river
Location
Mekong river Seine Nile* Congo Amazon** Mississippi Thames
England Egypt Central Africa US France China Brazil
scanning
1. Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?
2. Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why?
3. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?
beginning there.
Their prepaБайду номын сангаасations Both of them
bought_e_x_p_e_n_s_i_v_e_b_i_k_e,sgot their cousins interested in traveling and turned to t_h_e_a_t_la_s_in the library.
Brain storming
travel along a river
irrigate their fields
How do people who live along a river use it?
make electricity
Drinking and washing
reading Journey down the Mekong
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.
Why Wang Wei is excited
The Mekong River
Their journey would begin at___a_n_a_l_ti_tu_d__e_o_f_m__o_r_e_t_h_a_n_____.
5000 meters
It begins at a _g_l_a_c_ie__ron a Tibetan
Homework
1. finish all the exercises in the book on page 19, 20,56 2. finish exercises on the newspaper B1 3. preview the passages on page 22 and 23 4. finish exercise 5 & 9
Discussion
The passage tells us a main idea that no success in life merely happens by describing my sister’s and my dream--taking a bike trip and preparations for the trip.