Unit 3 Travel Journal

1. If you are going traveling, where are you going? Warming up—I (2m) 1. If you are going traveling, where are you going? 2. How are you going?

Tian’anmen Square The Great Wall The Heaven Temple Forbidden City

Arc de Triomphe Eiffel Tower Louvre Museum

means of transportation Warming up—III(2m) What do you have to consider before you decide which means of transportation you will use? means of transportation by motor on foot by bike

by bus by jeep by car by train

by plane/ air by ship/boat/sea

Comfort (舒适) Quickness Convenience (方便) Warming up—IV(1m) What do you have to consider before you decide which means of transportation you will use? Cost(花费) Safety(安全) Comfort (舒适) Quickness Convenience (方便)

Advantages Disadvantages bus train ship 1.very cheap 2.efficient for short journey take longer than the train or air plane train 1.cheaper than plane 2.enjoy wonderful scenes and fresh air does not provide meals ship 2. provides accommodation and meals more expensive than the train or bus not convenient for visiting the inland places airplane 1.quick 2.confortable 3.provides meals and good service expensive journey ends far from the city

Journey down the Mekong reading Journey down the Mekong

II Pre-reading China Laos Myanmar Thailand Cambodia Vietnam Can you list the countries that the Mekong flows through?

湄公河，干流全长4880公里，是亚洲最重要的跨国水系，世界第六大河流；主源为扎曲，发源于中国青海省玉树藏族自治州杂多县。流经中国、老挝、缅甸、泰国、柬埔寨和越南，于越南胡志明市流入南海。流域除中国和缅甸外，均为湄公河委员会成员国。湄公河上游在中国境内，称为澜沧江，下游三角洲在越南境內，因由越南流出南海有9個出海口，故越南稱之為九龍江，总程度长2139公里。

III Reading 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?

1.Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? They are brother and sister, and both are college students.

2. What was their dream? Their dream was to take a great bike trip.

3.Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a college in Kunming.

Read and answer the following questions: Reading –III (4m) Comprehending Read and answer the following questions: 1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s idea of a good trip? 2. Who planned the trip to the Mekong? Their idea was to take a long bike trip. Wang Wei planned the trip.

3. Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea does it enter? 4. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong? The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea. You can see the source glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.

5. What difficulties did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey? The journey will begin at an altitude of more than 5000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.

6. What do you think about Wang Kun and Wang Wei? Wang Kun’s character: enthusiastic, critical, sensible Wang Wei’s character: imaginative, organized, eager, persistent, stubborn, risk-taking

3. Read the text and the notes P80-82 No 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.

IV Retelling 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