1、Unit 3,Travel Journey,Period 1 Speaking and Warming up,National Day has gone, many people including you might prefer to go traveling for a break.,1. Do you like traveling ? Why? 2. Where have you ever been before?Can you tell us something about it?,Lead-in,Do you know the following places? Have you

2、ever traveled to them?,The Beijing National Stadium,Tiananmen Square,The Great Wall,Forbidden City,The Heaven Temple,Eiffel Tower,Arc de Triomphe,Louvre Museum,The Moon,The Earth,If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transports will you use and why?,means of transportati

3、on,on foot,by bike,by motor,by bus,by jeep,by car,by train,by ship/boat/sea,by plane/ air,by spaceship,What kind of transports will you use and why?,What do you have to consider before you decide which means of transportation you will use?,Cost(花費) Safety(安全) Comfort (舒適) Quickness Convenience (方便),

4、Discussion,Discussion Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each form of transport and fill in the chart on P17.,Use these questions to make a dialogue about your holidays.,When are you leaving? Where are you going? How are you going to? How long are you staying in? When are you arriving in/at

5、? When are you coming back?,Dialogue,The world has many great rivers. Discuss in your group and join the great rivers and their locations in the world in the following form.,Pre-reading,The great rivers in the world,How do people who live along a river make use of it?,to drink the water ; to wash cl

6、othes; to swim in summer and skate in winter; to irrigate the fields; to make electricity; to travel along a river; ,Pre-reading,Pre-reading,Have you ever travelled along a river? If you could follow the route of only one river, which one would you choose? Why?,在作出決定前，我寧愿權(quán)衡一下利弊。,I prefer to balance

7、the advantages and disadvantages before making a decision.,prefer: (兩者中）寧愿選擇（其中之一），更喜歡 Prefer + n doing sth (to doing sth) to do sth that 英語和漢語相比我更喜歡英語。 I prefer English to Chinese. 我寧愿講實話而不愿說謊。 I prefer speaking the truth to lying. 我更愿意選擇去美國進(jìn)修學(xué)習(xí)。 I prefer to go to America for my further study.,Do y

8、ou know something about The Mekong River ? Can you list the countries that the Mekong flows through according to the map on P18?,Lead-in The Mekong River,Lead-in The Mekong River,China,Journey down the Mekong,Reading,Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? What are they going to do?,Fast reading,1.Who are Wa

9、ng Kun and Wang Wei?,They are brother and sister, and both are college students.,2. What are they going to do?,They are going to take a great bike trip.,1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Weis idea of a good trip? 2. Who planned the trip to the Mekong? 3. Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea d

10、oes it enter?,Listen and then answer the questions on P19:,Their idea was to take a long bike trip.,Wang Wei planned the trip.,The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.,Careful reading,4. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong? 5. What difficulties

11、did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey?,The journey will begin at an altitude of more than 5000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.,You can see the source glacier, rapids, valleys, waterfalls and plains.,glacier,waterfall,plain,valley,rapids,6. What do you think about Wang

12、 Kun and Wang Wei?,Wang Kuns character: enthusiastic, critical, sensible Wang Weis character: imaginative, organized, eager, persistent, stubborn, risk-taking,Taking a great bike trip.,expensive bikes,interested in travelling,an atlas,Read the text again and fill in the form.,Careful reading,a glaci

13、er on a Tibetan mountain,quickly,deep valleys,China,the Southeast Asia,hills and low valleys and plains,the South China Sea,Positive. She wants to organize it as it was her idea.,Less positive as he wants to organize it and thinks he can do that better than his sister.,It sounds a wonderful trip and

14、 I would love to be able to do a trip like that myself one day.,Discuss Wang Kuns and Wang Weis attitude to the trip , and finish Ex. 3 on P19.,Post reading,The passage describes Wang Wei and Wang Kuns dream-_ their different_, Wang Weis _ , and their _ for the trip. It also tells us that no success in life merely happens. 人生中沒有什么成功是純粹偶然得來的。,In groups of four , summarize the main idea of the passage.,Discussion,taking a great bike trip,attitudes,determination,preparations,What can we learn from the text? Life is just a series o