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1、 Unit 2 Travelling Around the WorldPeriod 1 Text Reading by 【Learning Objectives】After this period, students are expected to:1. get a general idea of what the text is all about;2. learn how to describe a tourist destination and some means of transportation in their own words;3. get prepared for furt

2、her language study of the text.Pre Class【Background Information】Can you figure out these famous places? Try to name the countries they belong to. 【Oral Talk】Describe one of your trips to a scenic spot (at home or abroad) where you had an unusual experience. First work within groups , and then group

3、members can choose the most unusual experience and share it with the whole class. 【Challenge Yourself】Each group chooses a different picture of some scenic spot. Work on the word web as introduced in A1 Listening and Speaking section and describe the picture within the groups and then to the class.

4、The group that gives the most vivid and imaginative description will be given a prize for the best description and the most vivid imagination._While Class【Oral Presentation】Level A Could you please introduce one tourist destination abroad you have ever been to?When you are making introduction, do ma

5、ke sure the following points are included.the name of the tourist destination the features of the tourist destination the reason why you like the tourist destination Lever B Could you please share with the whole class about your understanding of travelling?When you are making introduction, do make s

6、ure the following points are included.What you gain from travelling Your own travelling experience 【Skimming and Scanning】A1 Study the pictures and answer the following questions? 1. Where is each of these bridges located? 2. Have you ever been to one of these bridges? Describe your experience. A2 S

7、kim the text and answer the following questions Which paragraphs describe the preparations for the climb? the scene and feeling at the top of the bridge? the tourists on the way to the top of the bridge? the writers admiration for the Sydney Harbour Bridge? *Is Paragraph A about the writers feeling

8、before the visit or after the visit?A3 Decide whether each of the following statements is true (T), false (F). The bridge is 40 stories high.Climbing the bridge is too hard for an ordinary person.Each tourist carries a small radio during the climb up the bridge.Right after the class, the writer an t

9、he other members began to climb the ladders that led up to the arch of the bridge.People are allowed to stay on the top of the bridge for only a short while.【Text Study】Read the text quickly and answer the following four questions1. How do you know that Climbing the bridge is not such a crazy thing

10、to do?2. How many things were the climbers taught to do? What were they?3. What words can be used instead of sped by in Paragraph 7?4. Which phrase means in an extremely short period of time in Paragraph J?Post Class【Text Consolidation】I. Describe the picture of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Page 15.

11、 Work in groups of four and draw a word web.Imagine your are the person who took the picture.II. Complete the following account of the writers climbing experience with the phrases you learn in the text.The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the worlds most famous bridges. It has long been admired by pe

12、ople at the home and abroad. The writer is without doubt one such admirer. However, he was not content just _ the bridge towering over Sydney from a distance. He wanted to be part of the bridge!To fulfill his dream, he joined a group of climbers. In order to climb the bridge, the climbers _, in whic

13、h they were taught how to use _ and climb steep ladders. Then, after _ their special climbing clothes, the group set out towards the top.They first crossed some catwalks below the road part of the bridge. Then they began to climb the ladders _ the arch. The higher they went, the more Sydney _. The s

14、cene _ was simply breathtaking. Looking down, they could see the city expanding _. Standing there, the writer truly felt that he had became part of the magnificent view. To him, climbing the bridge was definitely an experience of a lifetime. 【Optional Reading】I have never heard about a “Fashion Week

15、” outside of New York, London or Milan. But then one just happens to turn up in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. Actually, Im ignorant of all those countries in Central Asia, whose names are always ending in stan. For decades, even centuries, Central Asia has been out of focus, a blank on the map of empires.

16、Just as the introduction from Turusbek Mamashov, from the Tourism agency of the president of the Kyrgyz Republic, says, “Throughout this Fashion Week project, we need to create a revolution in the minds of our people, preparing the country for the international tourism market. It is an opportunity a

17、s well as an investment.” What he says is right. If you just give it a glimpse(一瞥), youll find out that the flavor(风情) of the Silk Road is still there. As part of the route for Silk Road traders and migrating tribes through its epic(史诗的) history, Kyrgyzstan, like other Central Asian countries, is a

18、vast place of desert, grassland and mountain ranges. It is not widely known that Kyrgyzstan is the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bais birthplace. Bishkek, the place holding Fashion Week, is the capital and industrial center of independent Kyrgyzstan. It is a relaxed, handsome place with wide streets and larg

19、e amounts of greenery. Especially in the autumn of November, the yellow leaves falling everywhere make the whole city a legend in fall. The mountains are just at its rear, in that case a unique scene of picturesque beauty is composed by snow-white peaks, lakes and the urban Landscape. Today, Ala-Too

20、 Square is the center of the poetic places worth seeing in Bishkek. The “White House,” the seat of the Kyrgyzstan Government, is just at the west of the square. Behind this is Panfilov Park, a great place to head for a national holiday. The State Museum of Fine Arts is opposite, which is also called

21、 the Gapar Aitiev Museum of Applied Arts, featuring Kyrgyz jewelry, rugs and works by local artists. One of the joys besides the scenery is the openness of the people. Bishkek is a city without a big population but mainly good-natured people from many races, 47 percent are Russian and about a third

22、are Kyrgyz. Most travelers vote Kyrgyzstan as the most appealing, accessible and welcoming of the former Soviet Central Asian republics. It is written by a tourist that Kyrgyzstan is the country Russians most desperately want to keep: hills always covered with grass and wild flowers. Kyrgyz men alwa

23、ys ride a horse wearing a photogenic hat.1.According to the passage, Kyrgyzstan used to be _.A. an international fashion centreB. an important part of Silk RoadC. the focus of the worldD. a vast desert land in Central Asia2.The Fashion Week in Bishkek is supposed to _.A. start a revolution in KyrgyzstanB. attract foreign investment to Ky