Unit 3
Travel journal

Reading
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Can you guess what the names
of these rivers are?
This river is called our mother river.
The Yellow River – 黄河
This river is the longest one in China.
The Changjiang River –长江
This is the famous river in Guangdong
Province.
The Pearl River
This river begins in Qinghai Province
and flows through several countries.
The Mekong River
The Nile River
The great rivers in the world
……

How do people who live beside
a river make use of it?
go swimming
travel along a river
to irrigate (灌溉) their fields
to make electricity
Brain
Storming
Lan Chang River
The Mekong River
Can you list the countries that the Mekong flows through?
The countries the Mekong River flows through:
China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
China
Laos
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
South China Sea
Myanmar
Can you tell the differences between the Mekong River and the Lancang River ?
The Chinese part of the river is called
the Lancang River and after flowing
in other countries the river is called
the Mekong River.
Journey down the Mekong
Reading
Part 1 The dream and the plan
Read the whole passage quickly and
decide which is the main idea of the
passage. _______
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.
A
Listen to the tape and get the main idea of each paragraph :
Para. 1
Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s dream.
Para. 2
Wang Wei is stubborn.
Para. 3
Preparing for their trip.
Fast-reading
A diagram(图表) of the text
1. prepare to take a bike trip
2.Wang Wei organized the trip.
3. Information about the MeKong River
Read
the text
in details.
Who and What
Wang Kun and ___ _____ Wang Wei are
dreaming about _____________________.
his sister
taking a great bike trip
Paragraph 1: Dream
Where and How
They have the idea to ____ _____ the Mekong River from ______ it ______ to _____ it _____.
cycle along
where
begins
where
ends
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.
What can they see during the journey?
It begins in a ______________ on a _______ _________.
glacier (冰川)
Tibetan
mountain
Paragraph 3: Preparation
Then, it ______ quickly. It becomes
______ as it passes through deep ______.
moves
rapids
valleys
Sometimes, the river becomes a ________ and enters ____ ______.
wide valleys
waterfall
After, It travels slowly through
__________ to _____________.
low valleys
plains (平原)
At last, the river _____ enters
the South China Sea.
delta
New words about geography:
altitude 海拔高度
glacier 冰河
rapids 急流
valley (山)谷
waterfall 瀑布
plain 平原
delta 三角洲
梦想做某事
骑自行车旅游
3.说服……做……
4.关心,介意
5.改变主意
6.下定决心
7.屈服,让步
8.使某人对……感兴趣
dream of/about doing sth
take a bike trip
persuade sb to do
care about
change one’s mind
make up one’s mind
give in
get sb interested in
Useful words and phrases
1.What was Wang Kun
and Wang Wei’s idea
of a good trip?
Their idea was
to take a great
bike trip.
Answer the questions.
2. Who planned the trip
to the Mekong?
Wang Wei.
3. Where is the source of
the Mekong River and
which sea does it enter?
The source of the river is in
Qinghai Province and it
enters the South China Sea.
4. What can you see when you travel along
the Mekong?
You can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys,
waterfalls and plains.
5. What difficulties did Wang Kun and
Wang Wei find about their journey?
The journey would begin at an altitude
of more than 5, 000 meters, where it is
hard to breathe and very cold.
6. What do you think about Wang Kun
and Wang Wei?
Wang Kun’s character:
enthusiastic, critical, sensible
Wang Wei’s character:
imaginative, organized, eager,
persistent, stubborn, risk-taking
Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s attitude to the trip:
Wang Wei believes…
They must _____ ___ _______ where
the river begins in order to see all of the Mekong.
2. They don’t need to _______ much.
start in Qinghai
prepare
1. It is too ____ _____ _____ to start in Qinghai.
2. That _____ ___ _____ is very important.
cold and high
using an atlas
Wang Kun believes…
It sounds a wonderful trip and I would love to be able to do a trip like that myself one day.
My attitude:
1. Their dream was to go hiking along
the river.
2. Wang kun is a high school student.
3. Both Dao Wei and Yu Hang are Dai
and they grew up in eastern Yunnan
province.
F
True or False
F
F
4. Wang Wei persuaded their cousins,
Dao Wei and Yu Hang, to join in
their cycling.
5. Before flowing in other countries,
the Mekong River is called the
Lancang River.
6. The source of the river is in QingHai
Province and it enters the east China
Sea.
T
T
F
7. They found few atlas and books about
Mekong River in library.
8. All parts of the Mekong River are in
China.
9. There are no waterfalls in the Mekong
River.
10. You can see glacier, rapids, valleys,
waterfalls and plains along the river.
F
F
F
T
Reading comprehension:
1. Which sentence is not true according to
the text?
Wang Wei advised Wang Kun to buy a
mountain bike and he agreed.
B. Wang Wei seldom listened to others.
C. Before their trip they went to the library.
D. Wang Wei knew the best way of finding
the source of the river.
D
2. What does the last paragraph on Page18
tell us?
A. They wanted to know how soon they would
come back.
B. They wanted to learn the world’s geography.
C. They went to the library to know something
about the Mekong River.
D. Wang Kun wanted to let Wang Wei know
how difficult their trip was.
C
3. When you travel along the Mekong River
maybe you can not see _________.
A. Waterfalls B. hills and villages
C. Plains where rice grows D. desert
4. What kind of person is Wang Wei?
Which answer is wrong?
A. stubborn B. determined
C. careless D. careful
D
D
Ever since ______ ______, I and Wang Wei
have dreamed about having a great _____
_____. It was Wang Wei who first had the
idea to _____ along the entire Mekong River
from where it ______ to where it ____. My
sister doesn’t _____ ______ details, because
she doesn’t know the best way of getting to
places.
Complete this passage
middle school
trip
cycle
begins
ends
care about
bike
When I told her the difficulties we would come
across during the journey, she gave me a
__________ look--- the kind that said she would
not _____ _____ _____. I know once she has
_____ ____ ____ _____, nothing can change it.
I had to _____ ____.
determined
chang her mind
made up her mind
give in
Language Points
1. Ever since middle school, my sister
Wang Wei and I have dreamed about
taking a great bike trip.
从中学起,我和我姐姐王薇就梦想作一次
了不起的自行车旅行。
dream about/of 梦想, 梦见 如:
I dreamed about flying last night.
He dreams of becoming a famous violinist
one day.
dream 常与not, little连用, 表示“想不到”。
I little dreamed of seeing you here.
真没有想到会在这遇到你。
与dream相关的其他词组:
dream up 虚构, 凭空想出
go to one’s dream 进入梦乡 read a dream 解梦
dream a (sweet/terrible…) dream
做了一个(甜蜜的、可怕的)梦
构词法: dreamer 做梦的人; dreamful 多梦的；
dream like 梦一般的; dreamland 梦境；
dream reader 解梦的人
2. Two years ago she bought an expensive
mountain bike and then she persuaded
me to buy one.
persuade: 说服, 劝说(暗示是成功的,
如果未成功则用try to persuade),
常用在persuade sb to do sth结构中。如：
I finally managed to persuade her to go
on with her work.
persuade还有下列用法:
persuade sb into doing sth 说服某人干某事
persuade sb of sth 使某人相信某事
persuade sb + that从句 说服, 使某人相信
如: Don’t let yourself be persuaded into
buying things you don’t want.
How can I persuade you of my words?
She’ll only take me back if I can persuade
her that I’ve changed.
高考链接
While shopping, people sometimes can’t help ____ into buying something they don’t really need.
to persuade B. persuading
C. being persuaded D. be persuaded
C
3. They are Dai and grew up in western
Yunnan Province near the Lancang River,
the Chinese part of the river that is called
the Mekong River in other countries.　
他们是傣族人, 在云南省西部靠近澜沧江
的地方长大的, 湄公河在中国境内的这
一段叫澜沧江, 流到其他国家的就叫
湄公河。
the Chinese part of the river that is called
the Mekong River before flowing in other
countries是一个名词短语, 用来修饰前面
的the Langcang River, 其中又含有一个
定语从句that is called the Mekong River
before flowing in other countries.
finally 一般指一系列事物或论点的顺序的
最后项内容, 或用在动词前, 表示“等了好久
……才”, 没有感情色彩。
at last只能指时间位置, 不能指时间顺序,
在意思上是指经过周折、等待、耽搁到”
最后、终于”(出现所期待的结果), 常常
带有较浓厚的感情色彩。
4. finally/at last/in the end
in the end可与at last和finally通用, 但若
出现了非期待中的结果, 用in the end,
还可以用于预卜未来。如:
They talked about it for hours.
Finally, they decided not to go.
2)The children arrived home at last/
in the end after the storm.
3) My dream will come true in the end.
4) The war lasted four years before the
North won _______________.
5) Your idea will turn out right
_________.
6) _______, I want to thank you for
helping me.
in the end/at last
in the end
Finally
5. It is my sister who first had the idea
to cycle along the entire Mekong River
from where it begins to where it ends.
首先想到要沿湄公河从源头到终点骑车
旅游的是我的姐姐。
这是一个强调句。
其基本结构为: It is/was + 被强调部分
+ that-/who- 从句
如果强调的部分是人,可用who,也可用that, 强调其他成分与内容都用that。
注意
e. g. It was in Shanghai that I saw the film.
(强调地点状语)
我看这部电影是在上海。
强调时间和地点不能用when或where，只用that。
We had a meeting in the meeting room
yesterday afternoon.
It was ____ ________ had a meeting in the
meeting room yesterday afternoon.
It was __________ ______ we had in the
meeting room yesterday afterno