1. Unit 3
Travel Journal

2. Your trip to your home From To Transport Travel fare WZ Longwan
Yueqing
Rui’an
Wencheng
Yongjia
Downtown
Others

3. Transport Advantages Disadvantages
discussion
Transport
Advantages
Disadvantages
bus
train / bullet train
ship
bicycle
car
airplane
short journeys; time-consuming
very cheap
not very fast
fairly fast
provides meals and
accommodation
not convenient for visiting inland places
environment-friendly
time-consuming
convenient
cause pollution
efficient
expensive, risky
speed, time needed, safety, coziness, pollution

4. destination transport travel fare accommodation
Plan a trip
destination
Where are you going?
tourist sites
local customs ……
How are you going there？
transport
travel
weather
How much does it cost?
travel fare
local snacks
What do you take with you?
luggage
Where are you staying?
accommodation

5. P 55
What to take?
Imagine you are preparing for your trip to Tibet. What would you take? Why?
raincoat
thermos cup
atlas

6. The Mekong River
1.Which countries does the Mekong River flow through?
2.Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?
3.What’s the name of the Chinese part of the river?

7. Reading
Journey down the Mekong
Main Idea:
The passage mainly tells us Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s dream and plan about a bike trip along the Mekong River and some information about the river.
Key Words:
Para 1: _________
Para 2: _________
Para 3: _________
dream
plan
river

8. Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.
Para 1: dream
★What was their dream ?
Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.
★What was their plan ?
Their plan is to cycle along the Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends
★ Who planed the trip to the Mekong?
It was my sister who had the idea to …
Now she is planning the schedule for the trip.

9. Determined （persistent）… doesn’t care about details
Para 2: plan
What does Wang Kun think of his sister Wang Wei? (Use some words or phrases in the text )
stubborn
Determined （persistent）…
doesn’t care about details …

10. What advantages do you think Wang Wei has? determined
Para 2: plan
What advantages do you think Wang Wei has?
determined
She doesn’t give in to difficulties
She doesn’t care about difficulties
She is enthusiastic
Imaginative, eager, risk-taking …

11. What do you think of Wang Kun?
Para 2: plan
What do you think of Wang Kun?
He is realistic, sensible and critical but less brave and less positive. He sees more difficulties rather than fun in the plan …
What does Wang Wei think of Wang Kun?

12. annoying organize cared about insisted altitude persuade cycling
Support your opinion with facts
I am fond of my brother but he has one serious shortcoming. He can be really __________. For example,
annoying
organize
although I tried to _________ the trip properly for us, he ______ a lot _______ details. He kept telling me about the difficulties. He ________ that the _________was too high and the air was too hard to breathe. He tired his best to __________ me to giving up my idea of __________ from the source of the river. I wonder why he always focuses on the difficulties instead of the fun. But you know I am a ____________ person, so finally he had to ________ to my view
cared
about
insisted
altitude
persuade
cycling
determined
give in

13. Para 3: river
Support your opinion with facts
waterfall 1
valley 2
plain
glacier 3 4
rapids
delta 5 6

14. Homework
1、 P19， Ex 2,4
2、 P20， Ex 1,2,3