Unit 3 Travel Journal
Free talk
Do you like travelling?
Do you like traveling ?
Why? Or why not?
Yes, l love traveling
Broaden our view/mind
Enrich our knowledge/experiences
Meet different people
Get to know the beauty of nature
Bring enjoyment and good memories
No, I don’t
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•
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A waste of time and money
Make me tired and exhausted
May be dangerous
Too many people
The Great Wall
He who does not reach the Great Wall
is not a true man. 不到长城非好汉。
You have no wish to visit any other mountains
after viewing the Five Sacred Mountains. You
do not even wish to visit them after you come
back from a trip to the Yellow Mountain.
The Yellow Mountain
“五岳归来不看山，黄山归来不看岳”
Guilin
ilin scenery stands out as the world's bes
桂林山水甲天下
If I If
want
to
go
to
Jingyuan
county,
you have a chance to travel, how are
Guangzhou / Beijing,
you going there?
the USA…
I am going there … because it will…
be very safe and
I can save money
on foot
help me keep
healthy
by bike
comfortable;
be very safe and
convenient(方便的） we can see the
beautiful view.
by train
be convenient
by bus
fast and
comfortable
by ship/sea by plane/air
The world is like a book, if
you stay at home instead of
traveling, it means that you
just stare at (盯着)one page of
a book.
Where do I want to travel ?
I dream about traveling ……
Here are some famous
rivers in China. Do you
know their names?
This river is called our mother river.
The Yellow River
This river is the longest one in China.
The Changjiang River
This is the famous river in Guangdong
Province.
The Pearl
River
The Mekong
River
This river begins in
Qinghai Province
and flows through
several countries.
Lan Cang River
The Mekong River
Can you list the
countries that the
Mekong flows
through?
The countries the Mekong
River flows through:
The Mekong River is called
_____________
Lancang
River in China. It
Myanmar
goes through ____________
Laos _________,
_____,
_________,
Thailand Cambodia
Vietnam and pours into
_________
the ________________.
South China Sea
湄公河
湄公河（Mekong River），干流全长4908公里，
是亚洲最重要的跨国水系，世界第十长河流；
主源为扎曲，发源于中国青海省玉树藏族自治州
杂多县。流经中国、老挝、缅甸、泰国、柬埔
寨和越南，于越南胡志明市流入南海。流域除
中国和缅甸外，均为湄公河委员会成员国。
湄公河上游在中国境内，称为澜沧江，长2157.8
公里在中国境外称作湄公河，长2750.2公里。
下游三角洲在越南境内，越南称之为九龙江。
Reading
Journey down the Mekong
Part 1 The dream and the plan
The geographical
information of the river.
The dream of cycling along
the Mekong River
The plan of the schedule
for the trip
Which is the main idea of
the passage. _______
A. The dream of Wang Kun and Wang Wei
and their preparation for the bike trip.
B. Their dream and the journey down the
Mekong.
C. Their plan to travel down the Mekong
and the attitudes of two people.
D. The proper trip down the Mekong.
Careful
reading
Paragraph 1: Dream
Who and What
Wang Kun and ___
his _____
sister Wang Wei are
dreaming about _____________________.
taking a great bike trip
Careful reading
Where and How
They have the idea to
____ _____
cycle
along the Mekong
River from ______
where it
______
_____ it _____.
begins to where
ends
Careful reading
Paragraph 2: A stubborn sister
She insisted that they find the source of
the river and begin their journey there.
Once she has made up her mind , nothing
can change it.
Careful reading
3: Preparation
What canParagraph
they see during
the journey?
It begins in a ____________
a mountain
glacier(冰川) on_______
__________________.
in Qinghai Province
Careful reading
Then, it ______
moves quickly. It becomes
______
rapids as it passes through deep ______.
valleys
Careful reading
Sometimes, the river becomes a ________
waterfall
and enters ____
wide ______.
valleys
Careful reading
After, It travels slowly through
low valleys to _____________.
__________
plains(平原)
Careful reading
delta
三角洲
At last, the river _____
delta enters
the South China Sea.
With the rapid development of
tourism, many problems have
arisen…
Discussion:
When traveling ,
what should we do to
avoid doing damage
to the local
environment?
When traveling, we should
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obey public rules.
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Don’t throw rubbish everywhere.
be friendly to nature/ not do something
harmful to the environment.
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Always Remember:
Leave nothing behind but our footprints;
bring nothing away but our good
memory.
The greatest talkers are always least doers.
语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。
Homework:
1) Try to retell the text
2) Underline the words , expressions and
sentences you don’t understand.