3. Which park would you like to visit most if you
have the chance?
• Let’s pay a visit to
Disneyland
Dolleywood
Camelot park
Skimming
1. Read the passage quickly for the general idea. A. Theme parks are more than amusement. B. Theme parks are places for people to amuse themselves. C. Theme parks have a variety of things to see and do. D. Theme parks have a certain idea.
farm
knight
Camelot park to enter a world of fantasy about ancient England
There are various kinds of theme parks, with a different park for almost everything: food, culture, science, cartoons, movies or history. Whichever and whatever you like, there is a theme park for you!
With all these attracions, no wondertourism is increasing wherever there is a Disneyland
group 2
theme attractions
Dollywood
America’s traditional southeastern culture country music 1. famous __________ 2. see _________ carpentersand other craftsman make things in the old _________ fashioned way 3. visit the _________ candy shop 4. ride on an ______ steam ________ engine old train 5. see bald eagles in the p_________ preserve 6. Thunderhead which is famous for having the most _________in the length _________space smallest
Where do you think they are?
Where do you think they are?
Quiz Retell the text by filling in the blanks. Parks provide people _____ a place to ______ themselves and to ______ their busy life for a while. In recent decades, however, many parks have been ________ to provide _____________. We call them ______ parks. Theme parks have a certain idea--- a ______ theme---that the whole park is ______ on. For example, _________
8. Camelot Park has the oldest True False roller coaster in the world . × □ □ Camelot Park does not have the oldest roller coaster in the world. 9. Camelot Park has an ancient √ □ □ English farm .
10. Camelot Park has places True False for visitors to watch and √ □ maybe take part in sword □ fighting.
Where do you think they are?
Free-fall rides
Now let’s design our own theme park !
Brainstorming: Your theme parks
Sports theme park
History theme park Culture theme park
Future park
theme parks
Science theme park Marine or Ocean Movie theme park
2. Give the main idea of each paragraph:
Para. 1: Different kinds of theme parks. Para. 2: Disneyland. Para. 3: Dollywood Para. 4: England’s Camelot Park
Camelot park
the ancient days and great deeds 1. Watch _________ shows with magic Merlin the wizard swords 2. see fighting with _________ or on horseback 3. visit ______ farm area, if you like animals and learn about farms in ancient England
Listen to the tape and then do these T or F exercises.
1. Disneyland can be found everywhere . □ Disneyland can be found in several parts of the world. 2. You can meet any cartoon character you like at Disney land . □ You can meet fairy tale or Disney cartoon characters at Disneyland.
steam engine
bald eagles
roller coaster --- Thunderhead
If you want to have fun and learn about America’s historical southeastern cul attractions
is the oldest theme park in the world. It seemed like a place of ________. Dollywood is a one of the most _______ theme parks in the world. You can have ____ learning all about American’s _________ southeastern culture. If you want to __________ a world of fantasy about _______ England, come to Camelot Park!
in Dolly wood throughout the
whole year.
√ □
□
6. Dolly wood has the only True False × electric train still working □ □ in the USA . Dolly wood has the only steam-engine train still working in the southeastern USA.
Reading
Revision---key words and expressions
• • • • • • • • • • 1. various 2.amusement 3.fantasy 4.attraction 5.unique 6.preserve 7.tourism 8.no wonder 9.be famous for 10.be modelled after • • • • • • • • • • 幻想 吸引 因…而闻名 旅游业 各种各样的 难怪 不足为奇 根据…模仿 独一无二的 娱乐 保留，保护
7. Visitors to Camelot Park can True False × □ □ taste candy like the candy made in ancient England . Visitors to Dollywood can taste candy like the candy made in the American South 150 years ago.
True False
× □
× □
3. Tourism develops where a
True False
Disneyland is built. the southeastern USA.
5. Country music singers perform
√ □
√ □
□
□
4. Dolly wood is in the mountains in
Detailed reading
group 1
Disneyland