unit 3 reading i. warming up the great rivers changjiang river the nile the mississippi huanghe...
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Unit 3 Reading
I. WARMING UP
The great rivers
Changjiang River
the Nile
the Mississippi
Huanghe River
the Thames
the Amazon… …
The Rhein
If you live along one of the rivers, how would you use it?If you have a chance to travel down one of them, which one would you choose? Why?
Mississippi(USA) Nile (Egypt)
Thames(England) Mekong(China,SE Asia)
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?
The countries that the Mekong River flows through.
Laos
Thailand
Burma
Cambodia
Vietnam
China
Mekong RiverThe Source:
The Length:
The longest river in the world.
the Jifu Mountains in Zaduo County, Yushu Tibet Autonomous Region of northwest China's Qinghai Province, which is about 5,200 meters above sea level.
青海省玉树藏族自治区杂多县境内的吉富山。
4880km
12th
The name of the Chinese part::
Lancang River(澜仓河）
ScanningScanningthe main idea of each paragraph:
P1 Take a great bike trip along the Mekong River.
P2 Different attitudes between them
P3 The preparation before the trip & details about Mekong River.
Answer these questions , fill in the form and then retell the text according to the form:
1.What’s the dream?
2.How did they prepare for the travel?
3.Why did they become excited?
4.Use your own words to describe the Mekong River
Close reading
Their dream
Wang Wei’s suggestion
Finding___________ and Finding___________ and beginning there.beginning there.
Their preparations Both of them Both of them bought_____________, got bought_____________, got their cousins interested in their cousins interested in traveling and turned to traveling and turned to _______in the library._______in the library.
Taking a Taking a great bike trip.great bike trip.
the sourcethe source
expensive bikesexpensive bikes
the atlasthe atlas
Why excited
Their journey would begin Their journey would begin at___________________________.at___________________________.
The Mekong River
It begins at a _______on a Tibetan It begins at a _______on a Tibetan mountain, moves quickly and mountain, moves quickly and passes through___________. Half passes through___________. Half of it is in China. It enters of it is in China. It enters the______________. Then it the______________. Then it travels slowly through hills and travels slowly through hills and low valleys and plains, at last it low valleys and plains, at last it enters__________________.enters__________________.
an altitude of more thanan altitude of more than 5000 meters5000 meters
glacierglacier
deep valleysdeep valleys
Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia
the South China Seathe South China Sea
ScanningTrue or false
1)Wang kun and Wang Wei are sister and brother. ( )
2) Their dream was to go hiking along the river. ( )
3) Wang Wei persuaded their cousins, DaoWei and YuHang, to join in their cycling. ( )
4) Before flowing in other countries, the Mekong River is called the Lancang River. ( )
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5) The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the East China Sea. ( ) 6) You can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys,
waterfalls and plains along the river.( )
7) It is not difficult to cycle along the Mekong River. ( )
8) The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold. ( )
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Careful reading1. Group discussion : Read the text carefully and then discuss Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s similar and different attitudes about the trip in groups of four.
Similar attitudes Different attitudes
Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think:
1.talking this trip is _________
that comes true.
2.__________________________
3.they should see a lot of _____
_______ .
4. most of the Mekong will be found in _________________ .
Wang Wei believes:
1.they must start in _______
where the river begins
2. they don’t need to ______
____________.
Wang Kun believes:
1.it’s too_________________to
start in Qinghai.
2.using an _______ is important
a dream
they will enjoy this trip a lot.
the
Mekong
Southeast Asia
Qinghai
preparemuch
cold and high
atlas
Their dream Taking a great bike trip.
Wang Wei’s advice
Their preparations
Finding the source and
beginning there.
Both of them bought
expensive bikes, got their
cousins interested in
traveling and turned to the
atlas in the library.
Why excited
The
Mekong
River
Their journey would begin at an
altitude of more than 5000 metres.
It begins at a ______ on a _______
mountain,moves quickly and passes
through___________. Half of it is in
______. It enters_________________.
Then it _____________________hills
and low valleys and plains, at last
it _______the South China Sea.
glacier Tibetan
deep valleys
China the Southeast Asia
travels slowly through
enters
2. Read the passage on page 59 and finish the exercises.
