1、Unit 3 Travel Journal,Warming Up,If you have a chance to travel, how are you going there?,on foot,by bike,by bus,by train,by ship/sea,by plane/air,Imagine that you plan to spend a holiday. Choose a place you want to visit. Think about the fare for different kinds of transport and decide how to get t

2、here. Then, get into pairs. Use these questions to make a dialogue about your holidays.,When are you leaving? How are you going to ? When are you arriving in/at ? Where are you staying? How long are you staying in ? When are you coming back?,Sample dialogue A: Tom, where are you going on holiday? B:

3、 Im going to Laos. A: When are you leaving? B: Next Sunday. A: How are you going to Laos? B: Im taking a plane. A: How long are you staying in Laos? B: About two weeks. A: Great. Have a good trip. B: Thanks.,3. Look at the map and list the countries that the Mekong flows through.,China,Myanmar,Laos,

4、Thailand,Cambodia,Vietnam,1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Weis idea of a good trip? 2. What is the Chinese part of Mekong River? 3. Who planed the trip to the Mekong?,What was Wang Kun and Wang Weis idea of a good trip? 2. What is the Chinese part of Mekong River? 3. Who planed the trip to the Mekong?

5、,Their idea was to take a great bike trip.,The Chinese part is the Lancang River.,Wang Wei.,Did Wang Wei know the best way of getting to places? 2. Who insisted on organizing the trip? Why? 3. Whats Wang Weis attitude to the trip? 4. Whats Wang Kuns attitude to the trip?,Did Wang Wei know the best w

6、ay of getting to places? 2. Who insisted on organizing the trip? Why?,No, she didnt.,Wang Wei. Because she first had the idea of the trip.,3. Whats Wang Weis attitude to the trip? 4. Whats Wang Kuns attitude to the trip?,Positive to the trip. She wants to organize it as it was her idea.,Less positiv

7、e to the trip as he wants to organize it and thinks he can do that better than his sister.,Look at the following sentences in this Para and explain them in your own words., my sister doesnt care about details. 2. She gave me a determined look the kind that said she would not change her mind.,1. my s

8、ister doesnt care about details.,This means that she has concentrated on the broad outline of the trip but not the particulars: where they will stay, what they will take with them ,2. She gave me a determined look the kind that said she would not change her mind.,This sentence means that she has dec

9、ided to do something and will not change her idea.,Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea does it end? 2. Explain the following sentence in your own words. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.,Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea doe

10、s it end?,The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.,It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.,A meander is a geographical term to describe the snakelike bends that a river makes as it slows down to flow through valleys

11、 to the plains. The sentence means that the Mekong River flows slowly and gently through the valleys and reaches the farming plains.,The Mekong River is called _ in China. It goes through _ _, _, _, _ and pours into the _.,Lancang River,Myanmar,Laos,Thailand,Cambodia,Vietnam,South China Sea,Wang Kun

12、 and _ _ Wang Wei are dreaming about _.,his sister,taking a great bike trip,They have the idea to _ _ the Mekong River from _ it _ to _ it _.,cycle along,where,begins,where,ends,glacier,Tibetan,mountain,Then, it _ quickly. It becomes _ as it passes through deep _.,moves,rapids,valleys,Sometimes, the river becomes a _ and enters _ _.,wide valleys,waterfall,At last, the river _ enters the South China Sea.,delta,Do you know Xu Xi