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Moon RiverMoon river, wider than a mile;I'm crossing you in style some day;Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker;Wherever you're goin', i'm goin' your way; Two drifters, off to see the world;There's such a lot of world to see;We're after the same rainbow's;Waitin’ round the bend, my huckleberry friend; Moon river, and me …
Questions:
• Do you like travelling?
• Where have you been?
• Can you tell your partner something about it?
I Warming Up
by busby plane / by air
Which kind of transport do you prefer to use?
by bikeon foot
by car
•Where are you going on holiday? •When are you leaving? •How are you going to…? •How long are you staying ? •When are you arriving in /at…?•Where are you staying?•When are you coming back?
Suppose you have four days, discuss where you might go in pairs. Remember to ask the following questions:
Warming Up
Yangtze
Amazon
NileMekong
Yellow River
Look at the pictures and try to guess the names of the rivers.(教师先出示相关河流图片。 )
plain
valley
waterfall
glacier rapids
II Pre-reading
China
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
Can you list the countries that the Mekong flows through?
Skimming
1. Read the text quickly and answer the following questions:
•Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
•What is their dream?
•Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
•What do you think they will see when they travel along the Mekong River?
III Reading
• Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? They are brother and sister.• What is their dream? Their dream is to take a long bike trip.• Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? They are Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s cousins.• What do you think they will see when they travel
along the Mekong River? I think they will see glaciers, rapids, deep valleys,
waterfalls and a delta.
2. Read the text again, and fill in the following chart:
Their dream To take a long bike trip Wang Wei’s suggestion
_________________________
Their preparations _________________________
Why a difficult journey?
_________________________
Wang Kun believes…
1.they must start in __________where the river begins.2.that they don’t need to_______ much.
Wang Wei believes…
1.it is _____________ to start in Qinghai.2.that ______________ is very important.
Their dream To take a long bike trip
Wang Wei’s suggestion
Their preparations
Why is it such a difficult journey?
To find the source and begin there
Both of them bought expensive bikes, got their cousins to join them and researched in the atlas in the library
It begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres where it is hard to breathe and very cold
Wang Kun believes…
1.they must start in __________
where the river begins.
2.that they don’t need to ______________ much.
Wang Wei believes…
1.it is ___________________ to start in Qinghai.
2.that ______________ is very important.
Qinghai
prepare
too cold and high
using an atlas
3. Read the text and the notes P80-82 No.1-9 carefully, and find some difficult sentences in the text.
4. Discuss Wang Kun’s and Wang Wei’s attitude to the trip in groups, and finish Exercise 3 on page 19.
Wang Wei’s attitude
Wang Kun’s attitude
My attitude
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 I would love to be able to do a trip like that myself one day.
Wang Kun and his sister middle school
after graduating got the chance to
thought of the idea cycle the Mekong River
bought bicycles got sb. interested in
journey begin at an altitude of
change one’s mind atlas in the library
IV Retelling
1. Read the text again, underline the important
words and phrases and find out the difficult
sentences for you.
2. Finish SB P20 Ex. 1-3.
3. Retell the text using your own words.
V Homework