Unit 3  Travel journal

the second period   reading
teaching goals
1. learn something about the mekong river through reading.
2. students can use what they have learned to describe a trip.
3. students should realize if they want to be successful, what personalities they should have.
teaching important and difficult points:
1. understand the text well.
2. try to master the useful new words & expressions in this period.
teaching aids: a computer & a projector
teaching procedures
step ⅰ warming up
t: do you like travelling?
present some pictures of beautiful places to arouse their interest of travelling. meanwhile, the teacher can also ask some more questions to make the students say something about their journey , such as their plans of trips, the difficulties they met in their journey and so on.
step ⅱ lead in
t: q1: have you visited any river?   q2:  how many great rivers do you know?
q3 :  if you could travel down only one of them, which one would you choose? why?
ask the students the locations of some famous rivers in the world .(mekong,   rhein, seine, nile, thames, congo, amazon, mississippi, volg)
step ⅲ pre-reading
t: have you visited the mekong river? if no, let’s learn something about it.
1. show a picture of the mekong river and the brief introduction of it. ask them:
can you list the countries that the mekong river flows through?
3. enjoy the beautiful sights along the mekong river to arouse their interest of it.
step iv  reading
in this step, get the students to read the text and finish some tasks.
task1: scan the text quickly, then answer some questions
q1. who are wang kun and wang wei?
q2.what are their dreams?
q3.who are dao wei and yu hang?
q4. is it a difficult journey to cycle along the mekong? why?
q5.what can you see when you travel along the mekong river?
task2: listen to the tape and pay attention to the pronunciation, then do the t or f exercise.
1.wang kun is a high school student.
2.both dao wei and yu hang are dai  and they grew up in eastern yunnan province 
3.the source of mekong is in qinghai province .
4.finally wang kun agreed with his sister to cycle with her.
5.they found few atlas and books about mekong river in library. 6. mekong river  begins at glacier on a tibet mountain. the water there is clear but not cold. 
7. only a small part of the river is in china.
8.as it enters southeast asia, it moves slowly.
task3: careful reading
read the text again and try to complete a form.