Unit 3　Travel journal單元規則與Period 1　Warming up and Reading

do you like traveling along a river? what role does a river play in people’s daily life? that is, how do people who live along a river use it?2. talking and sharingas is known, the world has many great rivers. match names of some great rivers with their locations where the rivers lie.ask the students:if you could travel down only one of them, which one would you choose? why?→step 3 while-reading1. scanningthe students read the passage quickly and get the topic sentence of each paragraph.2. skimmingread the whole passage again to locate particular information and answer each question (comprehending exercise 1 on page 19).3. language problemswhile checking the answers with the whole class, deal with language problems.4. reading aloud to the recording5. listing the countries that the mekong river flows through.→step 4 after-readingthe students discuss in pairs:wang wei’s and wang kun’s similar and different attitudes about the trip (comprehending exercise 3 on page 19).→step 5 consolidationask some students to retell the passage in the third person.→step 6 homework1. finish off the workbook exercises.2. retell the passage in your own words within 200 hundred words.

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unit 3　travel journal

part 1　the dream and the plantype of writingthis is a travel journal.main idea of the passagewang kun and wang wei’s dream of taking a great bike trip, their different attitudes, wang wei’s determination, and their preparations for the trip.topic sentence of the 1st paragraphit was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the mekong river.topic sentence of the 2nd paragraphalthough she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that we find the source of the river and begin our journey there.topic sentence of the 3rd paragraphwe found a large atlas with good maps that showed the details of the world geography.

活動與探究surf the internet and get more information about the mekong river.sample passage:mekong river—the lifeblood of southeast asiathe mekong river is the heart and soul of mainland southeast asia. the 12th longest river in the world, the mekong runs 4800 kilometers from its headwaters on the tibetan plateau through yunnan province of china, burma, thailand, cambodia, lao pdr and vietnam.over 60 million people depend on the mekong and its branches for food, water, transport and many other aspects of their daily lives. its annual flood drought cycles are essential for the sustainable production of rice and vegetables on the floodplains and along the riverbanks during the dry seasons. known as the mother of waters, the river supports one of the world’s most diverse fisheries, second only to the amazon. this vital ecosystem and lifeblood of the region is currently under threat. over the past ten years, more than 100 large dams have been proposed for the mekong basin by institutions like the asian development bank (adb)and the mekong river commission. some of these projects have already been built.