高一英语Travel-journal课件3

Speaking and Pre-reading
Unit 3 Travel Journal
Budget (预算)/fare Preparation(what
to take) time
Plan travel agency
travel
transportation
What to know
places of interest (destinations目的地)
What to do
Competition
Each group get 3 pictures You should guess where it is 10 points for each. There are 4 groups to choose from.
Disneyland
the Potala Palace Tibet
Red Square in Moscow, Russia
Taj Mahal, India
Hawaii, USA □
skiing
Rock climbing rafting
bengjee
hiking
What to take?
●bag ●food ●clothes: jacket, boots pants, ●Camera ●sun cream ●compass ●map
He likes traveling, especially visiting some lakes. On the last National Holiday，He traveled down West Lake in Hangzhou city.
But we persuaded him to visit some rivers next time. So he changes his mind, and he gets himself interested in visiting rivers.

If you plan to travel along a river
Which river will you choose? How are you traveling?
What will you prepare? Who are you going with? When will you be back?
Reading
The countries the Mekong River flows through: China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
Pre-reading The Mekong River
Myanmar
Laos
Vietnam
Dream Taking a great trip by __b_ik_e__
Plan Cycling along the entire
_M__e_k_o_n_g__R_i_ver
3. Is it a difficult journey along the Mekong River?
1. 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.
2. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong River? You can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.

Lan Chang River
Can you list the countries
that the Mekong
flows through?
China
Myanmar
Laos
Thailand
Cambodia Vietnam
South China Sea
What can they see during the journey down the Mekong?
Changjiang River
The Yellow River – 黄河
Yangtze River
Brahmaputra Yarlung Zangbu River –雅鲁藏布江
The Pearl River –珠江
Amazon River
Nile River
The great rivers in the world
New words about geography:
altitude 海拔高度； glacier 冰河 rapids急流 valley（山）谷； waterfall 瀑布 plain 平原 delta 三角洲 Canyon 峡谷
Reading through paragraph 3, try to find out the geographical
It begins at a _g_la_c_i_e_r__ on a T_i_b_e_t_a_n _m__o_u_n_ta_i_n_.
Then, it__m_o_v_e_squickly. It becomes _r_a_p_id_s_ as it passes through deep _v_a_l_le_y.
2. How do people who live along a river use it?

2. Wang kun is a high school student. F 3. Both Dao Wei and Yu Hang are Dai and they grew up
in eastern Yunnanprovince. F
4. Wang Wei persuaded their cousins,
02 Part Two Comprehending
Comprehending
1 Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s idea of a good trip? Their idea was to take a long bike trip.
Dao Wei and Yu Hang, to join in
their cycling.

5. Before flowing in other countries,
the Mekong River is called the
Lancang River.
T
6. The source of the river is in QingHai
2. Who planned the trip to the Mekong?
Wang Wei planned the trip.
3. Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea does it enter?
The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.