1. Unit Travel journal

2. Questions: Do you like traveling? Why do people travel?
Which place/country do you like to travel best?

3. Tian’anmen Square
The Great Wall
Forbidden City
The West Lake

4. Huangshan
Eiffel Tower
埃菲尔铁塔
Pyramid 金字塔

5. The National Day is coming, and many people including you may prefer to go traveling for a break.
means of transportation

6. Advantages & Disadvantages

7. Imagine a place you want to visit and make a dialogue with these questions.
Where are you going to?
How are you going to…?
When are you arriving in/at…?
Where are you staying?
How long are you staying in…?
When are you coming back?

8. There are many great rivers both in China and in the world.

9. Heilong Jiang – 黑龙江

10. The Yellow River – 黄河

11. Yarlung Zangbu River – 雅鲁藏布江

12. The Yangtze River –长江

13. The Pearl River – 珠江

14. Thames(泰晤士河)
in England

15. Rhine(莱茵河 )
in Germany

16. Mississippi River
in the USA

17. River Nile
in Egypt

18. Congo
-Central Africa

19. If you could travel down only one of them, which one would you choose?

20. The Lancang River – 澜沧江

21. What about the Mekong River?
Part of it is in China!

22. The Mekong flows from South-West China through all the mainland South East Asian countries - China, Myanmar , Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam

23. Myanmar / Burma (before 1989) is one of the largest countries in South East Asia.
Population: million(2003)
Capital: Yangon

24. Laos Laos is a country in SE Asia between China and Cambodia.
Population:
5.9million (2005).
Capital:Vientiane

25. Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power.
Population: million (2003)
Capital: Bangkok

26. Cambodia
Cambodia is a country in SE Asia between Thailand and Vietnam.
Population:13.4 million
(2003)
Capital: Phnom Penh.

27. Vietnam Vietnam is a country in SE Asia, next to Cambodia and China.
Population:81.4 million(2003).
Capital: Hanoi.

28. Now we reach the Mekong River!
After reaching the Mekong, an old man told me a story about the journey in the Mekong of a boy and a girl ? Do you want to know?