2020学年人教版英语精品资料必修一 Unit 3 Travel JournalReading IntroductionIn this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to imagine and share their views about the role of river in life. They will then be helped to read a narration entitled JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. Its about two students taking a trip down a river.Examples of “Warming Up” designs are presented in this book for teachers reference. Computer and overhead projector may be used to aid the teaching and learning. Objectives To help students read a travel journal To help students better understand “traveling down a river” To help students understand and use some important words and expressions To help students identify examples of the present progressive tense: expressing futurity in the textFocusWordstransport, prefer, flow, persuade, graduate, schedule, organizeExpressions ever since, be fond of, change ones mind, make up ones mind, give in, as usual, at midnightPatterns When are we leaving and when are we coming back?Then she persuaded me to buy one.后来她说服我买了一个。Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling too. She insisted that she organize the trip properly.Finally, I had to give in.AidsMultimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams Procedure1. Warming upWarming up by discussingGood morning, class. Do you like traveling? Why do you like traveling? And why dont you like traveling? Where have you ever been before? How did you get there? If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transportations will you use and why? Now look at the following pictures and discuss it in pairs. Name of the transportationsMeans of transportationReasons by car (in a car)by bikeby plane (by air)by train ( on a train)by bus ( on a bus)by ship (by water or by boat)in a hot balloonby motorbike (on a motorbike)by jeepby truckWarming up by looking and speakingNow boys and girls, what do you need to take with you if you are preparing for a bike trip along the Changjiang River? Look at the pictures and tell the whole class which object you think is the most useful and which one is the least useful. Give a reason why you think so.Warming up by asking and answeringNow suppose you live in Qinghai. You plan to take a holiday with a friend somewhere in Southeast Asia. You have been given a chance to choose three places to visit. Please find out the one-way fare to get there for different kinds of transportation. Perhaps you may not know the exact fare, but you can guess how much the fare is. Please have a short discussion with your partners and then decide where to go. Ok, now Id like you to ask your partner the following questions.1. Where are you going on holiday? 2. When are you leaving? 3. How are you going to?4. When are you arriving in/at? 5. Where are you staying? 6. How long are you staying there? 7. When are you coming back?2. Pre-reading by talking and sharingAs we all know, there are a lot of rivers in the world and also there are many great rivers. Now look at the chart. In the left column are names of some great rivers. In the right column are locations where the rivers lie. Please match them. matchanswer Names of RiverLocationNames of RiverLocationMekongIndiaMekongChina，SE AsiaRhineFranceRhineGermanyGangesRussiaGangesIndiaSeineEnglandSeineFranceNile Central AfricaNile EgyptThamesGermanyThamesEnglandCongoBrazilCongoCentral AfricaNigerChina, SE AsiaNigerWest AfricaVolgaUSVolgaRussiaDanubeEgyptDanubeCentral EuropeAmazonWest AfricaAmazonBrazilMississippiCentral EuropeMississippiUS3. Reading aloud to the recordingToday were going to read a passage about JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. Please listen and read aloud about the recording of the text JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG on page 18. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.4. Reading and underliningNow please read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONGdream about, take a great bike trip, graduate from, got the chance to do sth., cycle along the river, go for long bike rides, persuade sb. to do sth., get sb. interested in sth., be stubborn, know the best way of getting to places, the source of the river, change ones mind, at an altitude of, the air be hard to breathe, an interesting experience, make up ones mind, give in, a large atlas with good maps, pass through, be surprised to do sth, half of5. Reading aloud once again and understandingNext we are going to read aloud the text once again and then answer some questions.1) Who are Wang Kun