新課標Unit 3 Travel Journal

unit 3 travel journaljourney down the mekongmoon river
moon 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…  warming up if you’re going to travel along a river with someone, who are you going with?how are you traveling?which river will you choose?what will you prepare?from where will you start?when are you coming back? i am going with… we are starting from… can you guess what the names of these rivers are? how do people who live along a river make use of it?to irrigate the fields.to go swimming in it in summer.to make electricity.to travel along it.… pre-reading   the mekong river          
the countries the mekong river flows through:  china, myanmar, laos, thailand, cambodia, vietnam readingwho are wang kun and wang wei?they are brother and sister, and both are college students.2. who are dao wei and yu hang?they are wang kun’s cousins who are at a college in kunming.3. where is the source of the mekong river 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 river?you can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.glacierwaterfallplainvalleycanyonrapidsdelta  5. is it a difficult journey along the mekong river?yes. the journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold. complete  form  1  their  dream  taking a great bike trip.  their    preparations they bought expensive bikes, got their cousins interested in traveling and found an atlas.  the mekong river it begins at a glacier on a tibetan mountain,movesquickly and passes through deep valleys .half of it is in china. it enters the southeast asia.then it travels slowly through hills and low valleys and plains. at last it enters the south china sea. complete form 2 similar attitudes about the trip different  attitudes about the trip both wang wei and wang kun think…  wang wei  believes 1.      taking this trip is a dream that comes true2.       that they will enjoy the trip a lot3. they should see a lot of the mekong.4. that most of the mekong will be found in the south-east asia. 1. they must start in qinghai where the river begins/ see all of the mekong2. that they don’t need to prepare much. 3.  it’s too cold and high to start in qinghai.4.that using an atlas is very important.  discussion:who do you think was right about the trip? whyi think wang kun is right, because if it is too cold  and too high, the trip will be hard. people will have some difficulty in breathing at a high altitude. wherever we go we need an atlas so that we will not lose our way.the main idea of the textthe passage tells us that no success in life merely happens by describing my sister’s and my dream-taking a bike trip and preparations for the trip. the author also mainly describes sister’s “stubborn character”, “always taking her way for a proper way” and her being determined. retell the text according to form 1wang kun and his sister ……. since middle school. after graduation from college, they finally got the chance to……. his sister thought of the idea to…… the mekong river. they both bought……. they also……. wang wei stuck to the idea that they ….. when she heard that the source of the mekong river is in qinghai province, she wouldn’t…… . she even … when she knew that their journey would…… of more than 5,000 meters. …… they found ……in the library. from the atlas they knew clearly about…… . language points1. since middle school, my sister wang wei and i have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.       從中學起, 我姐姐王薇和我夢想作一次了不起的自行車旅行.dream  about = dream of      夢見, 夢想my younger brother dreams of becoming a spaceman.my younger brother dreams of becoming a spaceman.he always dreams about traveling around the world.注意dream--dreamed / dreamt--dreamed / dreamt2. it was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the mekong river from where it begins to where it ends.   是我姐姐首先想到騎自行車沿湄公河從它的源頭行走到入�？�.這是一個強調句。強調句的結構是：it was/is+強調成分+that-/who-分句如果強調的部分是人，可用who，也可用that，強調其他成分與內容都用that。強調時間和地點不能用when或where，只用that。e. g. it was in shanghai that i saw the film.                        （強調地點狀語）   我看這部電影是在上海。all the members held a meeting in the club yesterday.根據上下文和語文意圖，說話人可以通過強調句分別強調主語，賓語，狀語，使之成為信息中心。       all the members that/who held a meeting in the club yesterday. (強調主語，was 不能換用were)            a meeting that all the members held in the club yesterday.      it was       (強調賓語a meeting)            in the club that all the members held a meeting yesterday.  (強調地點狀語,that不可換用 where)            yesterday that all the members held a meeting in  the club.    (強調時間狀語that不可換用 where) 練一練！把這個句子的不同成分改成強調句。john gave mary a handbag at christmas. 高考鏈接was it ___ that i saw last night at the concert?a. you                  b. not you                                           c. you                   d. that yourselfit was because of bad weather ___ the football match had to be put off.a. so   b. so that   c. why    d. that—who is making so much noise in the garden?—______ the children.a. it is　　　　　 b. they are　　　　  c. that is　　　　d. there are　　answers:  ada 3. then she persuade me to buy one.    然后她動員我也買了一輛.persuade　vt.說服；勸服；vi.被說服