1. Unit 3
Travel journal
Warming up and reading

2. Free talk
Do you like traveling? Why?
2. Where have you been?

3. The Great Wall

4. The Forbidden City

5. The Yellow Mountain

6. Guilin

7. Lhasa

8. speed, time needed, safety, pollution…
How do people travel? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each form?
by car/bus by motorcycle
by train on a horse
by air/plane by bike
by ship on foot
speed, time needed, safety, pollution…

9. Here are some famous rivers in China. Do you know their names?

10. It is called our mother river.
the Yellow River

11. It is the longest river in China.
Changjiang
River
It is the longest river in China.

12. This is the famous river in Guangdong Province.
the Pearl River

13. If you’re going to travel along a river ,how will you plan it.
Who are you going with?
How are you traveling?
Which river will you choose?
What will you prepare?
From where will you start?
I am going with… We are starting from…

14. JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG
Fast reading
Careful reading

15. The river begins in Qinghai Province and flows through several countries.

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

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

18. waterfall
bends and meanders
plain
glacier
rapids
canyon
valley

19. Reading Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? 2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
Fast reading
Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
3. Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?
4. What can you see when you travel along
the Mekong River?
5. Is it a difficult journey along the Mekong River?

20. 1. Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
They are brother and sister, and both are college students.
2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a college in Kunming.

21. Careful reading Type of writing Topic sentence of paragraph one
Topic sentence of paragraph two
Topic sentence of paragraph three
This is a traval journal
It was my sister who first had the idea....
Although she didn't know the way of get..
We found a large atlas with good maps that....

22. Why is it such a difficult journey?
Fill in the following chart.
Their dream
Wang Wei’s suggestion
Their preparations
Why is it such a difficult journey?
To take a long bike trip
To find the source and begin there
Both of them bought expensive bikes, got their cousins to join them and researched in the atlas in the library.
It begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres where it is hard to breathe and very cold.

23. True or False Dao Wei and Yu Huang belong to the Han nationality. F
2. Some of the Dai live in Western Yunnan.
3. The Mekong River is in China and it includes the Lancang River. F T F

24. T
4. Although it is not easy to travel
along the Mekong River, Wang Wei
insisted on doing so.
5. The Tibetan Mountain where the
Mekong River begins is 5,000
meters high. F

25. 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

26. Review the text again and find the useful words and expressions.
Homework
Review the text again and find the useful words and expressions.
2. Retell the text using your own words.