1. Unit3 Travel joural
Period 2 Reading

2. Unit 3 Travel journal

3. TheMekong River
Enjoy a short video clip

4. The countries that the Mekong River flows through.
China
Laos
Burma
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam

5. Scanning the main idea of each paragraph:
1. Different attitudes between them. P2
2. Take a great bike trip along the Mekong River. P1
3. The preparation before the trip & details about
Mekong River. P3

6. F Scanning True or false Wang kun and Wang Wei are sister and brother.
2) Their dream was to go hiking
along the river. ( ) F
3) Wang Wei persuaded their cousins,
DaoWei and YuHang, to join in their
cycling ( ) T
4) Before flowing in other countries,
the Mekong River is called the Lancang
River. ( ) T

7. Close reading 1.What’s the dream? 3.Why did they become excited?
Try to get the information for the following
questions:
1.What’s the dream?
2.How did they prepare for the travel?
3.Why did they become excited?
4.Use your own words to describe the Mekong River.

8. Taking a great bike trip. the source
Their dream
Wang Wei’s suggestion
Finding___________ and beginning there.
Their preparations
Both of them bought_____________, got their cousins interested in traveling and turned to _______in the library.
Taking a
great bike trip.
the source
expensive bikes
the atlas

9. an altitude of more than
Why excited
Their journey would begin at___________________________.
The Mekong River
It begins at a _______on a Tibetan mountain, moves quickly and passes through___________. Half of it is in China. It enters the______________. Then it travels slowly through hills and low valleys and plains, at last it enters__________________.
an altitude of more than
5000 meters
glacier
deep valleys
Southeast Asia
the South China Sea

10. Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think: 1.talking this trip is _________
Careful reading
Group discussion : Read the text carefully and then discuss Wang Wei’s and
Wang Kun’s similar and different attitudes about the trip in groups of four.
Similar attitudes
Different attitudes
Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think:
1.talking this trip is _________
that comes true.
2.__________________________
3.they should see a lot of _____
_______ .
4. most of the Mekong will be found in _________________ .
Wang Wei believes:
1.they must start in _______
where the river begins
2. they don’t need to ______
____________.
Wang Kun believes:
1.it’s too_________________to
start in Qinghai.
2.using an _______ is important
Qinghai
a dream
prepare
they will enjoy this trip a lot.
much
the
Mekong
cold and high
Southeast Asia
atlas

11. Understand two mottos:
1.Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
2.Success belongs to the persevering.

12. Match each word to the proper meanings
a. A high place from which a river suddenly goes down
1. rapid
2. waterfall
b. A large flat place
3. glacier
c. A fast-moving part of a river
d. A large body of ice moving slowly down a high valley
4. delta
5. plain
e. The low place where a river enters the sea.

13. Review Lancang River Mekong River Myanmar China Laos Vietnam Thailand
Cambodia
The South China Sea

14. Post reading
--A Summary
Wang Kun and Wang Wei have ______ about taking a great bike trip. when they __________ from college. They _________ to _________ along the Mekong River with their ________. Wang Wei is very _______. Once she is __________ to do something she will never __________ her mind. Although it is difficult to travel along the Mekong River by bike, she ________ that they find the ________ of the river and begin their journey there.
dreamed
graduated
decided
cycle
cousins
stubborn
determined
change
insisted
source

15. Homework:

16. Good bye
Good bye!
See you next time.