Travelnbspjournal教案

valley：a long low wide place between hills
delta：the low place where a river enters the sea
glacier：a large body of ice moving slowly down a high valley
plain：a large flat place
canyon：a deep，very wide valley，usually with a river
to make you better understand what different topographical features are like，i will show you some pictures.
tell me what they are.
picture 1
 
it is a glacier.what about picture 2？
 
it is a canyon.（the lancang river）
picture 3
 
it’s the mekong delta.the mekong delta is the bottom half of vietnam’s two rice baskets.
（the other is the red river delta in the north.）
of course，picture 4 shows us a wonderful scene of waterfalls.
 
picture 5
 
the picture shows us a man is rafting on rapids.
there are some other new words in the passage：
please read after me.（with chinese meaning after each word）
finally，
cycle，
persuade，
stubborn，
insist，
source，
proper（ly），
detail，
determine，determined，
altitude，
atlas，
tibetan，
step 5 second reading
now i think there should be little difficulty in your understanding the text.
please read the passage and judge whether the following statements are true or false.
1.wang kung first had the idea to cycle along the mekong.
2.wang kung and wang wei have had the dream to cycle along the mekong since middle school.
3.they decided to begin their trip from the source of the mekong.
4.wang wei didn’t think much about the difficulty of the trip.
5.the mekong flows through five countries.
s1/s2/s3/s4/s5：...
t：statement 1 is false.not wang kung but wang wei first had the idea.
statement 2 is false.they have had their dream to take a great bike trip since middle school.
statement 3 is true.
statement 4 is true.
statement 5 is false.the mekong actually flows through six countries：china，burma，thailand，cambodia，laos and vietnam.
step 6 reading aloud
t：please look at the subtitle：the dream and the plan.how many parts can the passage be divided into？
s：from the subtitle，we know the passage can be divided into two parts.part 1 talks about their dream，while part 2 talks about their plan.
t：you are clever.part 1 is paragraph one.part 2 consists of paragraph 2 and paragraph 3.now please read the second part aloud.pay attention to their plan.
now，please discuss with your partners about the answers to the questions：
（1）who are dao wei and yu hang？
（2）where is the source of the mekong river？
（3）which sea does the mekong enter？
（4）is it a difficult journey along the mekong river？why？
（5）is wang kung very eager for the trip？