Unit 5
Theme parks
There are many kinds of parks in the world.
Look at the pictures of some world famous parks and try to get the name of each park.
Warming up
Baihai Park
Are they all theme parks?
World Waterpark
Disneyland
Dollywood
Central Park
Camelot Theme Park
Theme Parks
It is a kind of amusement park which has a certain theme – that the whole park is based on.
– Fun and More Than Fun
Task1 Get the main idea of the passage

Fast-reading
This text mainly tells us that there are _________________ to meet people’s different needs by describing ___________, ____________ and _____________ as three ___________.
various kinds of theme parks
Disneyland
Dollywood
Camelot Park
examples
Complete the table below.
Reading Comprehension
Detailed reading
Para. 2 Disneyland
Detailed reading
fairy tale stories
____________space, visit________________, meet ________characters, ride a _________ship,
go on a _________drop
travel through
a pirate ship
fairy tale
swinging
free-fall
a pirate ship
Disney cartoon charater
Snow White
Free-fall rides
culture of the southeastern USA
listen to_________________, see _________________and their work, try some traditional________, ____on an old steam engine, see_______________, ride on Thunderhead and other rides
American country music
traditional craftsmen
candy
ride
bald eagles
Para. 3 Dollywood
Country music groups
perform
Carpenters and craftsmen and their works
Try traditional candy
Bald eagles
You can see beautiful
bald eagles in the
world’s largest
________________________________.
bald eagle preserve
Take a ride on the
only steam-engine
Train still working
_________________________________.
in the southeast USA
__________has
one of the best
old wooden roller
coasters,
Thunderhead
Dollywood
ancient English history and stories
watch______________, see fighting with ______or on horseback, visit farm section, __________farms in ancient England
magic shows
swords
learn about
Para. 4 Camelot Park
Detailed reading
Which of the following is true according to the text?
2. According to the text, tourists can find Snow White and Mickey Mouse in ____.
3.What’s the Dollywood’s main attraction?
4.It can be inferred from the third paragraph
that the main purpose of Dollywood is to ___.
5.If you want to see fighting with swords or on horseback, which park would you go?
6.Theme parks have roller coasters except____.
6.Which of the following word can take the place of “preserve” in Line24 of Paragraph 3?
Reading Comprehension
Detailed reading
1. Which of the following is true according to the text?
Disneyland can be found anywhere in the
world.
B. Dollywood is the most unique theme park in
the world.
C. Every area of the park is exactly the same
with that in the days of King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table.
D. Nowadays, Disneyland all over the world
attracts more and more tourists.
Detailed reading
2. According to the text, tourists can find Snow White and Mickey Mouse in ____.
A.World Waterpark B. Disneyland
C. Central Park D. Camelot Park

3．What’s the Dollywood’s main attraction?
A.Its culture. B. Its wooden roller coasters.
C. Its candy shops. D. Its country music.
Detailed reading
4.It can be inferred from the third paragraph that the main purpose of Dollywood is to_______.
A. entertain B. make profits
C. show cartoons D. educate people
5.If you want to see fighting with swords or on horseback, which park would you go?
A.Dollywood. B. Hyde Park.
C. Camelot Park. D. Futuroscope
Detailed reading
6. Theme parks have roller coasters except
________.
A. Disneyland B. Camelot C. Dollywood

7.Which of the following word can take the place of “preserve” in Line24 of Paragraph 3?
A. serve B. reserve C. home D. nest
roller-coaster rides
Post Reading
1. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Theme parks are educational.
B. Theme parks are places for people to
amuse themselves.
C. In theme parks there are various things to
see and do.
D. Theme parks based on a certain idea are
various and more than amusement.
Post Reading
2. What does the title “The parks-----Fun and more than fun” mean?
A. Theme parks are really good fun to tourists.
B. Besides fun, theme parks provide tourists with
much other benefit.
C. Theme parks are interesting but tourists want
them to be more interesting.
D. Some theme parks are fun, while others are
greater fun.
Post Reading
3. What is the basic purpose of writing this text?
A. To advise people to visit Disneyland.
B. To give information on theme parks
C. To find the differences between some theme
parks
D. To make an advertisement for these theme
parks.
Post Reading
4.Where do you think would probably see this kind of writing?
A. In a magazine or some kinds of
newspapers
B. In a guide brochure
C. In an advertisement
5.The text is developed according to ____.
A. place B. time C. people
Post Reading
6.Understanding the outline----find out
which of the following best shows
the structure of the passage?
A
B
C
D
Parks ________ people with a place to ______ themselves and to ______ their busy life for a while. In recent _______ , many parks have been _________ to provide _____________. We call them_______ ______ . They are usually ______ places and have a ________ of things to _____ and _____ . Theme parks have ____ _______ ______ ---- a certain ________ .---- that the whole park is _______ ____.
Summary
provide
amuse
escape
decades
designed
entertainment
theme parks
huge
variety
see
do
a
certain idea
theme
based on
For example, a sports theme park will _______ visitor sports to ______ or ________ ; a history or _________ theme park will let us see how our __________ dressed, worked and ______. The oldest theme park in the world is _____________. It seemed like a place of _______. Besides these, we have the _________ or ocean parks, the _________ theme parks and so on to let us e_______ totally different e_____________ from the r______ world.
Summary
offer
play
watch
culture
ancestors
lived
Disneyland
fantasy
marine
science
njoy
xperience
eal