1. What does the Mekong look like？
At first, the river is very small.
The water is clear and cold.
Then it begins to move quickly.
It becomes rapids & passes
through deep valleys.
Sometimes the river enters wide valleys and becomes waterfalls.
The Mekong in China is called the Lancang River.

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LiZhengyang is traveling on foot
happily !

3. Glacier
Valley

4. Plain
Delta

5. Rapids
Waterfall

6. Journey Down The Mekong
Reading:
Journey Down The Mekong
Now we’re going to read a passage about a boy’s travel journal along the Mekong River.

7. Fast Reading
Read the passage quickly
and answer the followings

8. Who and What Where and How Why and When
WangKun
and
his sister WangWei
are dreaming of
taking a great bike trip

9. Where and How
They have the idea to_________the Mekong River from _____ it ______ to ______ it _____.
cycle along
begins
where
ends
where

10. Ever since … have dreamed about taking…
Why and When
Ever since … have dreamed about taking…
after graduating from colleage

11. the main idea of each paragraph:(choose A.B.C )
Dream
A stubborn sister
Preparation
Preparation
Dream
A stubborn sister

12. Discuss
the text
in details.

13. dreamed about taking a great bike trip.
my sister Wang Wei and I have
dreamed about taking a great
bike trip.
we finally got the chance to do it.
she bought an expensive mountain
bike. Then she persuaded me to buy
one.
she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and
Yu Hang at their college in Kunming.

14. About Wang Wei (para2)
1. Which adjectives can best describe Wang Wei’s attitude about the trip? Why?
uninterested crazy curious scared
brave determined stubborn excited
careless

15. Find the words from the text that mean the same
diary
the price, expense
a means or system of carrying passengers from one place to another
at last,in the end
ride a bike
make sb to do sth
With a strong will,determined
To declare firmly
journal
fare
transport
finally
cycle
persuade
stubborn
insist

16. The height of an object or place above sea level
decide
The height of an object or place above sea level
An area of land lying between two lines of hills or mountains
A feeling or thinking about sb or sth
determine
altitude
valley
attitude

17. Activity
Imagine that you are Wang Wei, tell your classmates your experiences about your traveling, and write it down.