,Lets go travelling together!,Unit 3travel journalJourney Down the MeKong,WARMMING UP,The Great Wall,Mount Huang,The Eiffel Tower,The West Lake,Big Ben,When you go travelling, what do you think about? List them, please.,travelling,travellers,time,transport,Route(路线),Places of interest (名胜古迹),weather,Things you take. Which one is the most important?,Tyre (轮胎),blanket,Water bottle,map,tent,umbrella,Flash light,compass,matches,knife,mobile phone,raincoat,Reasons,弯，拐角,ever since,persuade,graduate,finally,be fond of,bend,meander,valley,give in,cycle,自从,说服,毕业,蜿蜒缓慢流动,最终,骑自行车,喜爱,屈服,峡谷,Read the words and speak the Chinese.,Para. 1,Para. 2,Para. 3,The plan of the bike trip to the MeKong River,Details about the MeKong River,A dream to cycle along the MeKong River,scanning,Read the whole paragraph and match the main idea of each paragraph.,Careful reading,Travellers,Time of their trip,Transport,Route（路线）,Dream,Wang Kun, Wang Wei, Dao Wei and Yu Hang,Dream about taking a great bike trip,After graduating from college,Cycle= go there by bike,Cycle along the MeKong River fromto,1. Read para.1 and fill the blanks,Ever since middle school.,Two years ago.,Last year.,After graduating from college,Now,2. Wang Wei has dreamed about the trip along the MeKong River. How did the dream form in her mind. Try to find out the facts according to the timelines.,Qinghai Province,A determined look; not change her mind,Excited about it,More than 5000 meters,An interesting experience,Hard to breathe; cold,Read Para. 2 and find different opinions,Wangwei,Wang kun,source,altitude,air,Can you list the countries which the MeKong River flows through? And how it flows?,Can you list the countries which the MeKong River flows through? And how it flows,Tibet (西藏),Yunnan,Myanmar （缅甸）,Thailand（泰国）,Cambodia （柬埔寨）,Vietnam （越南）,Qinghai,Laos（老挝）,The MeKong River begins ,At first the river ,Then it begins ,After it leaves,As it entersIt makes.,At last.,Read Para. 3 and find details,Sometimes the river,It begins in a glacier on a mountain.,At first the river is small and the water is clear and cold.,Then it begins to move quickly. Rapids, valleys.,The Langcang River 澜沧江,Sometimes the river becomes a waterfall and enters wide valleys.,After it leaves china and high altitude, it becomes wide, brown and warm.,As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains.,At last, the river delta enters the South China Sea.,The MeKong River湄公河,The Lancang River 澜沧江,Two parts,Wang Kun and his sister has 1._ about taking a great bike trip ever 2._ middle school. After 3._from college, they 4._ got the chance to make their dream come true. His sister thought of the idea to 5. _ along the MeKong River. They both bought expensive mountain bikes. They also got their cousins 6._ in cycling.,summary,dreamed,since,graduating,finally,cycle,interested,Wang Wei 7._ the idea that they should start from where it begins. When she heard that the 8._ of it is in Qinghai Province, she wouldnt 9._ her mind. She even felt excited when she knew that their journey would begin at an 10._ of more than 5000 metres. Before the trip they found a large atlas they knew clearly about the MeKong River.,insisted,source,change,altitude,Role play,role play the interviewer and the interviewee to introduce the details of the MeKong River.,homework,glacier,small,small,wide,rapids,valleys,waterfall,bends,meanders,plain,delta,