1. Learning about language
Unit 3 Travel journal
Learning about language

2. Read to collect
Tip: to put related words into a family can help you to remember them easily and firmly.
time: later ?
attitude: like,
dislike…
new words?
words that mean
“to say”: tell… ?
travel
geography: river,
lake… ?
personality: kind,
warm-hearted… ?
ways of
travel: ?

3. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain
Tip: to learn the meaning of a word from a sentence can help you to know the exact meaning and remember it firmly. To observe how a word is used in a sentence can help you use it properly.
Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain
bike and then she persuaded me to buy one.
to make sb do sth by giving them good reasons for doing
determined cycle journey schedule
insist give in care about stubborn
make up one’s mind finally be fond of

4. finally determined stubborn be fond of journey cycle schedule insist
give in
care about
make up one’s
mind

5. Practice fare, insist, give in determined, cycle
stubborn, persuade, change one’s mind
be fond of, journey,
care about

6. My husband and I _________ traveling very much, so we _____ to cycle to the Yellow River Mouth to celebrate the New Year’s Day. We have planned a tight _______to make the _________ meaningful. We are starting off early on January 1 and reaching Hekou in the evening. After spending one day visiting places of interest, we are coming back on Jan. 3. My brother tried to _______ us to give up the plan because it is difficult to travel so long by bike, but we won’t ________ .

7. Useful structure:
We are starting off early on January 1 and reaching Hekou in the evening.
be doing
a future action
Where are we going?
When are we leaving and when are we
coming back?
What verbs are often used in this tense to express future actions?
Summary: come, go, start, arrive, reach, stay, leave, travel, cycle, take

8. Practice:
A newspaper reporter is interviewing Wang Wei about her plans for the trip along the Mekong River. However, they are not sure about some of the verb tenses. Please complete their conversation. (Ex 2 on page 21)

9. using
Work in groups of three and write a passage to tell me your travel plan. Make sure you use at least 4 new words and expressions we learnt today and 1 sentence with “be +doing” to express the future action.

10. be fond of determined stubborn Match the words with the meanings
1.having a strong wish to do sth, so that you will not let anyone stop you
2. not to change your mind, even when people thought you are unreasonable
3. Like
be fond of
determined
stubborn

11. Find the correct expressions for the following meanings
cycle
________ to ride a bike
________ to agree to do sth that you don’t
want to do
________ to think sth important and worth
worrying about
________ to decide sth
________ to demand that sth should happen
and refuse to let anyone to say no
give in
care about
make up one’s mind
insist

12. finally journey schedule determined stubborn be fond of cycle insist
give in
care about
make up one’s
mind

13. Which “insist” is used as the one in the text?
Although he didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip properly.
1. The headmaster insisted that everyone in the class should obey the rules in the trip.
2. Mike insisted that he had bought the ticket for the park but he couldn’t find it anywhere.
to demand that sth should happen
insist that sb (should) do
to say firmly that sth is true, esp. when other people think it may not be ture

14. Summary: What have you learnt in this class? words: phrases:
structures:
learning tips :
Your problem?