1. My First Ride on a Train 莱芜十七中 宋丽鹏

2. Learning aims( 学习目标 ): 1.Learn how to grasp the structure and main idea of a passage. 2.Learn how to find useful and specific information 3. learn to cooperate with partners. 4. Learn how to deal with new words and –ed forms.

4. The Ghan Train Alice Springs My First Ride on a Train

5. Prediction What do you suppose the text talks about?

6. A scenery and camels B journey and the train C food and horses What does the article mainly talk about? Read for main idea

7. My journey My First Ride on a Train The Ghan Train Paragraphs 4,5,6 Which paragraphs belong to each part? Paragraphs 1,2,3

8. when _______, I had ___________ with a friend on the famous __________ from_______to___________. who what how where Recently my first ride Ghan train SydneyAlice Springs Read for details Read paragraph 1 and finish the task.

9. Read paragraphs 2-3, and find the key words What did she seeWhat did she do and dark red soil desert abandoned farms looked out of talked to. read books listened to cassettes watched the night sky fields sat mean farms which were given up tapes Read for details

11. My journey My First Ride on a Train The Ghan Train

12. Read paragraphs 4-6, and put the three pictures in order of time. Read for details: why did Australians abandon us? Why do people call us the Ghan? What’s the advantages of us? Ghan--Afghanistan--camel--train

13. Alice Thompson made her first ride on a train _____the Ghan. They ate meals ______ by experts. They saw fields, soil, ______ and _____________ farms built over 100 years ago. On the train, Alice talked to other passengers and studied Chinese by listening to __________. She watched the night sky and found stars, which shone like__________. Why is the train called the Ghan? It is _____ for Afghanistan. The Afghans used ______ camels to carry food and supplies. They did this ______ the 1920s, when the government built a new railway line. abandoned diamonds trained cooked desert cassettes short until Consolidation: called

14. Two students act as Alice Thompson and her friend and the others ask them about the first ride. Role play

15. Our life is like a train and we’d better go as far as possible. Our life is like a journey and we’d better enjoy as much as possible. Cherish each chance! Value the time! Try our best! Realize our dreams!

16. I have learnt language skills grammar teamwork feelings improvement Homework: Add more information and finish your own mind map after class. Self-assessment

18. Title__________ Module __________ Date__________ General idea :__________________________________ Words & Phrases: ______________________________ Beautiful sentences: ____________________________ __________________________________ WB Reading 7.8.9 (P81-83)

19. Click to edit title style Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 when and where their travel took place. scenery and activities. the Ghan train and the trained camels she tells she describes she explains (para 1) (para 2- 3) (para 4- 5)

20. Click to edit title style Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 when and where their travel took place. scenery and activities. the Ghan train and the trained camels she tells she describes she explains (para 1) (para 2- 3) (para 4- 5)

21. My journey My First Ride on a Train The Ghan Train scenery activities

22. I tell I describe I explain My First Ride on a Train scenery activities

24. Which part of Australia did the writer travel to? The central part of Australia.

25. When did you travel? Who took the journey with you? What did you do? How did you go there? Where did you go? How did you feel?

26. Read Paragraphs 2-3, and complete the two tasks. Task 1 :scenery Task 2: activities For the first few hundred kilometers, there were ____________________ After that, it was ________ Suddenly, we saw _______________ fields and dark red soil desert abandoned farms … means farms which were given up Read for details:

27. Scenery of Australia The Great Barrier Reef Ayres rocks Kangaroo Sidney Opera House

28. whenwho what how where Suppose you just came back from the National Day holiday. Share your experiences with your partners. Activities:

29. Read Para 2-3, and complete the two tasks Task 1: sceneryTask 2: activities For the first few hundred kilometers, there were ____________________ After that, it was ________ Suddenly, we saw _______________ fields and dark red soil desert abandoned farms sat looked out of talked to. Read for details: read books listened to cassettes watched the night sky tapes diamond

30. my first ride, got on, went across and got off, a newly-built square, cooked by experts, excited…