1、My First Ride on a Train,Reading and vocabuary,Revision,Describe the first time you travelled a long distance. Say how old you were, where you went and who you went with.,Example: I first travelled a long distance by train when I was six years old.I went with my parents from Shanghai to Beijing.,My

2、first trip to the Great Wall,Example: I first travelled a long distance by train when I was six years old.I went with my parents from Shanghai to Beijing.,My visit to a modern farm,My first trip to the seaside,Warming up,Look at the pictures and say where you think it is.,Australia,the map of Austra

3、lia,Sydney Opera House,the national flag,Kangaroo,Alice Springs,beach,Answer these questions about,Australia,Do you know how many people live there? 2. Do you know the name of the capital city? 3. Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast?,More th

4、an 20 million,Canberra,On the east coast and the southeast coast,Answer these questions about,Australia,4. What do you think the central part of the country is like? 5. What Australian animals do you know about?,Desert,Kangaroo, koala bear, duck-billed platypus, dingo,Kangaroo, koala bear, duck-bill

5、ed platypus, dingo 袋鼠 樹熊 扁嘴獸 澳洲野狗,Whats the capital city of Australia ?,Canberra,the map of Australia,desert,camel,koala bear,kangaroos,duck-billed platypus,dingo,Scenery of Australia,What do you think of the scenery of Australia?,Alice Thompson,My first ride on a train,Pre - reading,Check the meani

6、ng of these words and match some of the words with these definitions.,abandoned camels cassette clouds colourful desert diamonds distance experts famous farms fields food government law meal midnight passengers products recently sand scenery shine shoot soil supply weather,an area of land where it i

7、s always dry _ 2. valuable stones _ 3. people who travel on a train, bus or plane _ 4. you find this on beaches _ 5. white or grey things made of water in the sky _ 6. where plants grow _,desert,diamonds,passengers,sand,clouds,soil/farms/fields,Alice Thompson,My first ride on a train,Prediction (預測)

8、,Look at photos, titles and the first sentence of each new paragraph.,a child visiting her grandmother,What is the passage about?,a train ride to Sydney,taking the train to Australia,traveling to the central part of Australia,My First Ride on a Train,How many parts can we divide the passage into?,Sk

9、imming (略讀),Match the main ideas with the each part.,Part 1 : Para 1,Part 2 : Para2 3,Part 3 : Para 4 6,Why is the train called the Ghan? Or the story about the Ghan,Brief introduction about her journey,Alices feeling about her journey and the scenery all the journey,Scanning (查讀),Part 1(1): Brief i

10、ntroduction about her journey.,1. Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago? 2. Was her destination on the coast of Australia?,Alice Thompson,recently,travelled on the famous Ghan train,Alice Springs,Sydney,by train,No. She travelled on the train recently.,No, it was Alice Springs in the centre

11、of Australia.,Scanning (查讀),Part 2 (2 3): Alices feeling about her journey,3. Was the scenery the same during the whole journey? 4. Did she study while she was on the train?,wonder-ful comfor-table,great,colourful fields the dark red soil,desert no wind no clouds,looked like abandoned farms,nice,No,

12、 at first there were fields, then it was desert.,Yes, she studied Chinese.,The means of transport in the middle of Australia in the history,Part 3 (4 6): Why is the train called the Ghan?,horse,camel,train,Put the following sentences in the right order.,. Camels were trained to carry supplies back f

13、rom the central part. . Camels were shot because of the new railway line built by the government. . They brought camels from Afghanistan. . Australians needed a way to the central county. . They tried riding horses, but failed. _,Part 3 (4 6): Why is the train called the Ghan?,5. Did the Australians

14、 use horses to travel to the central part of the country? 6. Do they still use camels to deliver goods?,Yes, at first, but the horses didnt like the hot weather.,No, they use the train now.,Read the passage again carefully and fill in the blanks,Alice Thompson made her first long-distance train ride

15、 at the age of _. She got on in _ and got off in Alice Springs. They ate meals cooked by _. They saw fields, soil, desert and _ farms which were built over 100 years ago. On the train, Alice talked to other _ and studied Chinese. She watched the night sky and found stars, which shone like_. Why is t

16、he train called the Ghan? It _ _ _ Afghanistan. The Afghans trained the _ to carry food and supplies. They did this until _, when the _ built a new railway line.,18,Sydney,experts,abandoned,passengers,diamonds,is,camels,the 1920s,government,short,for,For the first few hundred kms the scenery colourf

17、ul,fields soils red,desert shine no wind no clouds,more than 4000 kms away,2 days & nights,After that,Suddenly,look like - abandoned farms more than 100 years ago,comfortable nice during the day sit look out of sometimes talk to read listen to one night at about midnight watch shine diamonds,Retell

18、the passage: Alices First Ride on a Train Alice comes from Sydney, Australia and she is 18 years old . Recently she and a friend travelled on the famous Ghan train. ,get on,get off In the middle of,wonderful,great cooked by experts,Alices first ride on a train,Brief introduction about her journey (Para1 )( who, when, what, where, how),Alices feeling about her journey and the scenery all the journey (Para2 3 ) (train, food, people, scenery),The