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Journey Down the MekongJourney Down the Mekong

Huangshan Mountain

Huangguoshu Waterfall

Emei Mountain

Jiuzhaigou

Lushan Mountain

Let’s share our travel experience

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1. Do you like traveling?

2.Why do you like traveling ? And why not?

3.Where have you ever been before?

4.How did you get there?

5.If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transportations will use and why ?

transport advantages disadvantages

bus

train

ship

airplane

Think about the advantages and disadvantages of each form transport and fill in the following chart.

Discuss the following questions

National day

When are you leaving?How are you going to… ?When are you arriving?Where are you staying?How long are you staying in…? When are you coming back?

the present continuous tense 现在进行时现在进行时除表示现在正在进行的动作外 , 还可以表示将来 , 常有 “意图” “安排” 或 “打算”的含义 . 它常表示最近或较近 的将来 , 所使用的动词多是转移动词 .

表示将来的现在进行时除用于转移动词外 ,也可以用于某些非转移动词 .

We’re leaving for Beijing tomorrow.

When are you starting?

They are coming here this afternoon.

What are you doing next Sunday?

I’m meeting you after class.

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List the countries that the Mekong River flows throughList the countries that the Mekong River flows through

China

Laos

Thailand

Cambodia

Vietnam

Mekong

Laos

Vietnam

Thailand

Cambodia

MyanmarMyanmar

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Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? What was their dream?Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?

Brother and sister.

To take a great bike trip.

Cousins.

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1. Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?2. Why is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong?3. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?

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1. 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.

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2. Why is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong?

3. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?

The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.

Glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.

Read the passage again to complete the form.

their dream

Their journey

Their preparation

The Mekong River

Reading

Details

Read the passage again to complete the form(I).

Their dream

Their journey

Their preparation

Taking a great bike trip

Along the Mekong River

from the source .

1.They bought expensive mountain bikes.2.They turned to the atlas in the library.

Read the passage again to complete the form(II).

The Mekong River

1.begin /glacier on a Tibetan mountain / small/clean/cold.2.move quickly /pass through deep valleys 3.half/in China /Lancang River.4.wide brown and warm/enter

An attitude is what a person thinks about something. Write down Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s attitude to the trip. Then add your own opinion.

Wang Wei’s attitude

Wang Kun’s attitude

My attitude

Positive to the trip. She wants to organise it as it was her idea.

Less positive to the trip as he wants to organise it and thinks he can do that better than his sister.

It sounds like a wonderful trip and I would love to be able to do a trip like that myself one day.

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

Discussion

Look at the following sentences from the text and explain them in your own words.

1. She gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her mind.

2. …my sister does not care about details.

3. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.

1. She gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her mind.

This sentence means that she has decided to do something and will not change her ideas.

2. …my sister does not care about details.

This means that she concentrates on the broad outline of the trip but not the particulars: where they will stay, what they will take with them etc.

3. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.

A meander is a geographical term to describe the snakelike bends that a river makes as it slows down to flow through valleys to the plains. The sentence means that the Mekong River flows slowly and gently through the valleys and reaches the farming plains.

Advantages:1. very cheap2. efficient for short journeys3. goes to small towns/cities

Disadvantages:1. takes longer than the train or

airplane2. does not provide meals

bus

Advantages:1. cheaper than the airplane2. journey ends in the center of

the town/city

Disadvantages:1. takes longer than the airpl

ane2. does not provide meals

train

Advantages:

1.cheaper than the airplane

2. provides accommodation and meals

Disadvantages:

1. more expensive than the train or bus

2. not convenient for visiting inland places

ship

Advantages:

1. quick

2. efficient

3. provides meals

Disadvantages:

1. expensive

2. journey ends far from the city

plane