Unit3 Travel journal Reading

Do you know these places? Have you ever been there?

Meizhou Island

The Great Wall

意大利比 萨斜塔 the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Bird Nest 北京鸟巢

Eiffel Tower 巴黎的埃菲尔铁塔

世界最高楼 —— 迪拜塔 米

迪拜 泊瓷 酒店 世界 最豪 华酒 店 7 星 级

罗马的特雷维喷泉 许愿池，幸福喷泉

印度泰姬陵 王妃的陵墓

How do we go traveling?

By plane 乘灰机

By train 动车 motor train/ bullet train

By car

By bus 11 路 On foot 迪拜超级巴士 最快

by ship/sea

by bike

Reading Journey Down the Mekong Part1 The dream and the plan

Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 The geographical ( 地理的 ) information of the river. The plan for the trip The dream of cycling along the Mekong River Skimming

1 dream 4 people 5 time 4 places Scanning Para 1 The dream

1 dream Take a great bike trip along the Mekong River (/ cycle along…)

Wang Kun Wang Wei Dao Wei and Yu Hang Writer Sister Cousins 4 people Who Planned the trip to the Mekong?

5 time Ever since middle school Two years ago Last year After graduation from college Now dream Bought bike Visited cousins planning Got the chance

4 places Kumming Western Yunnan Langcang River Mekong River Chinese part In other countries Grew up college

2 ask 3 told Para 2 Stubborn When are you leaving and when are we coming back? I ask her whether she had looked at a map yet. The source The altitude The air interesting excited determined A serious shortcoming didn’t care about details

Para3:The geographical ( 地理的 ) information of the river. How did they get it? Library

What can they see during the journey?

glacier rapids valley waterfall Bends or meanders plain delta 冰川 山谷 急流 瀑布 平原 三角洲 蜿蜒

glacier rapids valley waterfall Bends or meanders plain delta

The Mekong River begins in a on a mountain in Qinghai Province. At first the river is and the water is and. glacier smallclear cold glacier

It becomes as it passes through deep, traveling across western Yunnan Province. rapids valleys rapids valley

Sometimes the rivjer becomes a_______ and enters wide valleys. waterfall

After it leaves China and high altitude, the Mekong becomes, and. As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. widebrown warm

It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the where rice grows. At last, the river enters the South China Sea. plains delta plain delta

China Myanmar Laos Vietnam Cambodia Thailand It runs through ______ countries six Lancang River Mekong River

who, altitude ， interest ， graduate ， dream about ， Wang Wei and Wang Kun are sister and brother. They ____________ taking a great bike trip. Wang Wei also got their cousins ________in the trip. After _______f__rom college, they got the chance. It was Wang Wei____ had the idea to cycle along the Mekong river. The source is at an _______ of over 5000 meters. who interested dreamed about graduating altitude