Unit3 Travel journal

Reading

Do you know these places?

Have you ever been there?

Meizhou Island

The Great Wall

意大利比萨斜塔the

Leaning

Tower of Pisa

Bird Nest 北京鸟巢

Eiffel Tower巴黎的埃菲尔铁塔

世界最高楼——迪拜塔 828.14 米

迪拜泊瓷酒店世界最豪华酒店 7星级

罗马的特雷维喷泉

许愿池，幸福喷泉

印度泰姬陵

王妃的陵墓

How do we go traveling?

By plane乘灰机

By train 动车 motor train/ bullet train

By car

By bus 11路

On foot迪拜超级巴士最快

by ship/sea

by bike

Reading

Journey Down

the MekongPart1 The dream and the plan

Para. 1

Para. 2

Para. 3

The geographical ( 地理的 ) information of the river.

The plan for the trip

The dream of cycling along the Mekong River

Skimming

1 dream

4 people

5 time

4 places

Scanning

Para 1

The dream

1 dream

Take a great bike trip along the Mekong River(/ cycle along…)

Wang KunWang WeiDao Wei and Yu Hang

WriterSister

Cousins

4 people

Who Planned the trip to the Mekong?

5 time

Ever since middle schoolTwo years ago

Last year

After graduation from collegeNow

dream

Bought bike

Visited cousins

planning

Got the chance

4 placesKumming

Western Yunnan

Langcang River

Mekong River

Chinese part

In other countries

Grew up

college

2 ask

3 told

Para 2

Stubborn

When are you leaving and when are we coming back? I ask her whether she had looked at a map yet.

The sourceThe altitudeThe air interesti

ng

excited

determined

A serious shortcoming

didn’t care about details

Para3:The geographical ( 地理的 ) information of the river.

How did they get it?

Library

What can they see during the

journey?

glacier

rapids

valley

waterfall

Bends or meanders

plain

delta

冰川

山谷

急流

瀑布

平原

三角洲

蜿蜒

glacier

rapids

valley

waterfallBends or meanders

plaindelta

The Mekong River begins in a on a mountain in Qinghai Province. At first the river is and the water is and .

glacier

small

clear

cold

glacier

It becomes as it passes through deep , traveling across western Yunnan Province.

rapidsvalleys

rapids

valley

Sometimes the rivjer becomes a_______ and enters wide valleys.

waterfall

waterfall

After it leaves China and high altitude, the Mekong becomes , and . As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows.

wide

brown warm

It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the where rice grows. At last, the river enters the South China Sea.

plains delta

plain delta

China

Myanmar

Laos

Vietnam

Cambodia

Thailand

It runs through ______ countriessix

Lancang River

Mekong River

who, altitude ， interest ， graduate ， dream about ，

Wang Wei and Wang Kun are sister and brother. They ____________ taking a great bike trip. Wang Wei also got their cousins ________in the trip. After _______f__rom college, they got the chance. It was Wang Wei____ had the idea to cycle along the Mekong river. The source is at an _______ of over 5000 meters.

who

interested

dreamed about

graduating

altitude