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Unit 3 Travel journal Reading: Journey down the Mekong一背景介绍：湄公河是越南等地著名的河流，是亚洲第四长河流。湄公河干流全长4908千米，在中国境内河段称为澜沧江，流出中国国境以后的河段称为湄公河，被誉为东方多瑙河，发源于中国青海省玉树藏族自治州杂多县，流经中国西藏自治区、云南省、老挝、缅甸、泰国、柬埔寨和越南，于越南胡志明市以南省份流入南海。这是一篇写景文，第一次上这篇课文时，就觉得很优美，适合赏读。对高中学生来说，还得学学记叙文，学学英语小说等。二过程设计Step1 Presentation Todays topic is travel. What places have you visited? How are you going there? (by bus,by train,by ship,etc.) Today we talk about a journey down a river. There are many rivers in the world.What are they?(The students may provide various answers) Many people live beside a river.How do they make use of it in their daily life? Bring water to drink,sell the water for money,use small boats for making money,etc.They make money by providing travel for the people from other places.Its very bad in some places rivers are polluted by the people,so its dirty in some places.Step 2 Presentation Today our topic is the Mekong /the Mekong river.Can you say something about the Mekong?Where is it ?How does it look like?Where does it begin and where does it end?The Chinese part of this river is called the Lancang River.What is the source of the Mekong? In Qinghai Province in China.The Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan mountain. (What does glacier mean?)Step 3 Reading (one paragraph once) Read the story and answer the questions.1.Who is the writer? Wang KunWho is Wang Wei? His sister.2.Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hong?Their cousins.Where are Dao Wei and Yu Hong? At their college in Kunming.They are Dai. What does the Dai mean?Dao Wei and Yu Hong grew up in western Yunan Province near the Lancang River. The Chinese part of the Mekong River is called the Lancang River.3.How are Wang Kun and Wang Wei going to travel? By bike.4.Do you think its a good idea to travel along the Mekong by bike? Why do you think its a good idea? Why do you think it isnt a good idea? How do they plan at last? The source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province.The journey will begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres.Its exciting but there are some difficulties of cource.It is very cold and hard to breathe at so high place.But the sister Wang Wei is very stubborn,very determined.She will not change her mind.Once she has made up her mind,nothing can change it.Finally, Wang Kun had to give in and decided to go by bike.What kind of bike? Mountain bike.,expensive mountain bike.Expensive The bike must be very good ,very good to travel.Listen to the tape (the second paragraph)5.(the last paragraph) Read the third paragraph together loudly. At first the river is small and the water is clear and cold. It is very cold because it is very high at nearly 5,000 metres of an altitude. Why is it clear? It has not be polluted,because there are not so many people at such a high altitude. But after it leaves China and high altitude,the Mekong become wide,brown and warm. Why is it warm? The river comes to warm places.Why is it brown? Because there is sand in the river. to the plains where rice grows: The river is to the places (called plains) .In the places rice grows.Read the passage again loudly.Step 4 Comprehending Page 19. 1 Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Weis idea of a good trip? (The idea was to take a long bike trip. Long means not short.)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.)4.What can you see when you travel along the Mekong? (You can see the source,glacier,rapids,hills,valleys,waterfalls and plains.)5.What difficulties did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey? (The journey will begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metrres,where it is hard to breather and very cold.)altitude attitude 6.What do you think about Wang Kun and Wang Wei? Wang Weis character: stubborn, determined Wang Kun” character:Step 5 Learning about language Page 20. Discovering useful words and expressions.1 Find the correct words or expressions from the text to each sentence.1.He is so stubborn that no one can persuade him to do anything. (persuade sb to sth)2.A determined person always tries to finish the job,no matter how hard it is.3.My grandpa is fond of fishing and sometimes he fishes all day in the river.4.Liu Xiaoding is a good teacher and cares about his students very much.5.I prerfer the red dress to the green one because it fits me better.（对我更合适）6.The concert went like clockwork because Li Pei had organized it so well. go like clockwork 顺利地运行7I wanted to pay the train fare, but my friend insisted. Finally I gave in. .（屈服）8.She persuaded all of us to cycle to work instead of taking the bus.(Do this exercise quickly and in large class.)Step 6 Using language (page 22)Part 2 A night in the mountainsGet the Ss to read the part silently and then answer questions.Answer questions.What items are Wang Kun and Wang Wei carrying with them ? ( a tent, a cooker,and food, pillows,water bottles, caps, coats,gloves and trousers)More questions:1. Why did the children (dressed in long wool coats) stopped to look at us ?We are just like snowman ride bicycles.2. Why did they have to change their caps,coats,gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.At the source ( where is the source), it is vey cold ,so they must wear caps,coat,gloves and trousers. But when they come to the end of the river,it is very warm so they have to changefor. (change their caps,coats ,gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts)Step 7 Practice Tell as much as possible about the two passages. Give the Ss 5 minutes to prepare for the retelling.Step 8 Consolidation Ask some Ss to retell the passage.Step 9 Practice Page 223. Listen to the tape and mark the rising and falling tone of each sense group and sentences from “To climb the mountains” to “ T-shirts and shorts”. Then practice reading it aloud.Step 10 Homework 1. Retell the two passages.2. page 20-21.3. page 56, 1-3 Page57, 14. page 59 Part 6 The end of our journeyConclusion:The source : No pollution.The end: There are many people near the river,so t