Unit 3 Reading

Moon river, wider than a mile; I'm crossing you in style some day; Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker; Wherever you’re goin’, I’m goin’ your way; Moon River

Two drifters, off to see the world; There’s such a lot of world to see; We're after the same rainbow’s; Waitin’, round the bend my huckleberry friend; Moon river, and me…

Warming Up If you’re going to travel along a river with someone. Who are you going with? How are you traveling? Which river will you choose? What will you prepare? From where will you start? When are you coming back? I am going with… We are starting from…

Can you guess what the names of these rivers are? the Yellow River

the Yangtze River Can you guess what the names of these rivers are?

the Pearl River

the Amazon River Can you guess what the names of these rivers are?

the River Nile

Names of riverLocation Mekong River Seine Nile Gongo Amazon Mississippi Thames England Egypt Central Africa US France China Brazil The great rivers in the world

How do people who live along a river make use of it? To irrigate the fields. To go swimming in it in summer. To make electricity. To travel along it. …

Laos Thailand Myanmar Cambodia Vietnam Pre-reading

Skimming : What was their dream? Wang Kun and his sister

Reading 1. Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? 2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? 3. Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter? 4. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong River? 5. Is it a difficult journey along the Mekong River?

1. Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? They are brother and sister, and both are college students. 2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a college in Kunming.

3. What was their dream? Their dream was to take a great bike trip. 4. Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter? The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.

5. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong River? You can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.

glacier waterfall

plain valley

canyon delta rapids

6. Is it a difficult journey along the Mekong River? Yes. The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.

Find out the countries that the Mekong River flows through. China Laos Burma Thailand Cambodia Vietnam

Complete the Form Their dream Their preparations They bought ______________, got their cousins ____________________and found_______. Taking a great bike trip. expensive bikes interested in travelling an atlas

The Mekong River It begins at ___________________ _________, moves ______ and passes through __________. Half of it is in _____. It enters _________________. Then it travels slowly through ___________________________. At last it enters _______________ ___. a glacier on a Tibetan mountain quickly deep valleys China Southeast Asia hills and low valleys and plains the South China Sea

Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think… Wang Wei believes 1. taking this trip is a dream that comes true 1. they must start in Qinghai where the river begins/see all of the Mekong Complete Form 2

Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think… Wang Wei believes 2. that they will enjoy this trip a lot 2. that they don’t need to prepare much.

Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think… Wang Kun believes 3. they should see a lot of the Mekong. 1. it’s too cold and high to start in Qinghai.

Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think… Wang Kun believes 4. that most of the Mekong will be found in the South-east Asia. 2. that using an atlas is very important.

Who do you think was right about the trip? Why? I think Wang Kun is right, because if it is too cold and too high, the trip will be hard. People will have some difficulty in breathing at a high altitude. Wherever we go we need an atlas so that we will not lose our way.

The main idea of the text The passage tells us that no success in life merely happens by describing my sister’s and my dream-taking a bike trip and preparations for the trip. The author also mainly describes sister’s “stubborn character”, “always taking her way for a proper way” and her being determined.

Retell the text according to the Form Wang Kun and his sister … since middle school. After graduation from college, they finally got the chance to… His sister thought of the idea to… the Mekong River. They both bought… They also… Wang Wei stuck to the idea that they … When she

heard that the source of the Mekong River is in Qinghai Province, she wouldn’t… She even … when she knew that their journey would… of more than 5,000 meters… they found …in the library. From the atlas they knew clearly about…

Homework 1. Try to retell the reading in the third person. 2. Prepare for Learning about language.