Unit Three Travel Journal

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????????????? ???? ? Unit
Three Travel Journal Reading Part
One Journey down the Mekong ?????
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Reading
Journey down The Mekong
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Can you guess what the names of these rivers are?
Yellow
Yangtze
Nile
Pearl
Amazon
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How do people who live along a river make use of
it?
to irrigate the fields. to go swimming in it in
summer. to make electricity. to travel along
it.
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waterfall
plain
glacier
delta
rapids
canyon
valley
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Pre-reading The Mekong River
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The countries the Mekong River flows through
China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
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Reading

• Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?
• 2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
• 3. What are their dreams?
• 4. Where is the source of the Mekong River and
  which sea does it enter?
• 5. What can you see when you travel along
• the Mekong River?
• 6. Is it a difficult journey along the Mekong
  River?

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1.Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? They are
brother and sister, and both are college
students. 2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
They are Wang Kuns cousins who are at a
college in Kunming.
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3. What was their dream? Their dream was to
take a great bike trip. 4. 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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5. What can you see when you travel along
the Mekong River? You can see glacier,
rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and
plains. 6. Is it a difficult journey along the
Mekong River? Yes. The journey begins at
an altitude of more than 5,00 meters,
where it is hard to breathe and very cold.
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Complete Form 1
Their dream
Their preparations They bought ______________, got their cousins ____________________and found_______.
Taking a great bike trip.
expensive bikes
interested in travelling
an atlas
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The Mekong River It begins at ___________________ _________, moves ______ and passes through __________. Half of it is in _____. It enters _________________. Then it travels slowly through ___________________________. At last it enters _______________ ___.
a glacier on a Tibetan
mountain
quickly
deep valleys
China
the Southeast Asia
hills and low valleys and plains
the South China Sea
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Complete Form 2
Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip
Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think Wang Wei is

1. taking this trip is their dream that comes true
positive ,excited about the trip
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Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip
Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think Wang Kun is

not very positive
2. that they will enjoy this trip a lot ,see a
lot of the Mekong
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The main idea of the text
The passage tells us that no success in life
merely happens by describing my sisters and my
dream-taking a bike trip and preparations for the
trip. The author also mainly describes sisters
stubborn character, always taking her way for
a proper way and her being determined.
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Understand two mottos Life is just a series of
trying to make up your mind. Success belongs to
the persevering
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Homework
Try to retell the reading in the third
person. Prepare for Learning about language.
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Who do you think was right about the trip? Why?
I think Wang Kun is right, because if it is
too cold and too high, the trip will be hard.
People will have some difficulty in breathing at
a high altitude. Wherever we go we need an atlas
so that we will not lose our way.
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Retell the text according to Form 1
Wang Kun and his sister since middle
school. After graduation from college, they
finally got the chance to His sister thought of
the idea to the Mekong River. They both bought
They also Wang Wei stuck to the idea that they
When she
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heard that the source of the Mekong River is in
Qinghai Province, she wouldnt She even when
she knew that their journey would of more than
5,000 meters they found in the library. From
the atlas they knew clearly about
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Language points
1. Since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I
have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.
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dream about dream of ??, ?? My younger
brother dreams of becoming a spaceman.
He always dreams about traveling around the world.
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dream
dreamed/dreamt
dreamed/dreamt
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2. It was my sister who first had the idea to
cycle along the Mekong River from where it begins
to where it ends.????????????????????????????
???????? ??????? It was/is????that-/who
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?????????,??who,???that, ???????????that?
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??????????when?where,??that?
e. g. It was in Shanghai that I saw the film.
(??????)

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All the members held a meeting in the club
yesterday.
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all the members that/who held a meeting in the
club yesterday. (????, was????were)
It was
a meeting that all the members held in the club
yesterday. (????a meeting)
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in the club that all the members held a meeting
yesterday. (??????,that???? where)
It was
yesterday that all the members held a meeting in
the club. (??????that???? where)
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????????????????John gave Mary a handbag at
Christmas.
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Was it ___ that I saw last night at the
concert? A. you B. not you
C. you
D. that yourself
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It was because of bad weather ___ the football
match had to be put off. A. so
B. so that C. why
D. that
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Who is making so much noise in the
garden? ______ the children. A. It is B.
They are C. That is D.
There are
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3. Then she persuade me to buy one.???????????.
persuade vt.?? ?? vi.???
sb. sb. of sth. ??????? sb. that clause sb.
(not) to do sth. sb. into / out of doing sth.
persuade
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Compare !
persuade sb. to do sth.
persuade sb into doing sth. persuade sb. not to
do sth. persuade sb out of
doing sth.
e.g. I persuaded him to do it.
persuade him into doing it. ??????????
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• While shopping, people sometimes cant help ____
  into buying something they dont really need.
• to persuade B. persuading
• C. being persuade D. be persuaded

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??????, ?????persuade, ???try to
persuade?advise, ???persuade????? e.g. Some of us
advised him to change his mind but no one could
persuade him to do so.

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1. I __ him not to smoke, but he didnt think it
necessary. A.
persuaded B. advised C. hoped
D. suggested 2. I was able at last to ____ my
mother to follow my advice.
A. suggest B. advise C.
persuade D. leave off
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4. Although she didnt know the best way of
getting get to places, she insisted that we find
the sources of the river and begin our journey
there. ?????????????,
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although, though????????????but, and, however??,
??????yet, still???
although???????, though???????,?,?????,??though???
??????,? ??,???,?although?????
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insist declare firmly ????,????
1) insist on/upon ones doing sth ???,??? e.g. I
insisted on/upon his coming with us. 2) insist
that ?????(???????), ??????????, ?????????
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e.g. He insisted that he hadnt stolen the girls
handbag.
3) insist that sb. (should) do sth. ???????,
?????????????, ? should v. e.g. Mary was ill.
Her parents insisted that she (should) see a
doctor.
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• I insisted that a doctor __ immediately.
• has been sent for B. sent for
• C. will be sent for D. be sent for

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5. My sister doesnt care about details.
???????????? care about be worried about
??,?? e.g. He doesnt care much about what
happens to me.
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care for sb/sth look after, love or like??, ??,
?? 1) Would you care for a drink? 2) He cares for
her deeply. 3) Who will care for your child if
you are out?
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6. She gave me a determined look the kind that
she wouldnt change her mind.?????????----????????
????? determine v. ??, ????, ??

• determine to do sth.
• e.g. He determined to learn French.

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2) determine ?? e.g. She determined that she
would never see him again. 3) determine ??? to
do e.g. Have you determined where to spend the
holiday next week? determined adj. ???, ????
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be determined to do sth. ??? e.g. She was
determined to go to university. change ones mind
??????? e.g. No matter what you say, I wont
change my mind.
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make up ones mind ???? read ones mind
??????? speak ones mind ???? give/ put ones
mind ??? keepin mind ??
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7. When I told her that our journey would begin
at an altitude of more than 5000 meters, she
seemed to be excited about it. ???????????5000????
??, ?????????
at an altitude of at a height of
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e.g. The plane is flying at a height / altitude
of 10,000 feet.
at ???? ??/?, ?????, ??, ????, ??, ???

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at the age of at a high / low price at a
depth/width of at the cost of at a
distance of
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8. When I told her the air would be hard to
breath and it would be very cold ??????????,
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?? be adj. to do sth. ?????????????????????
e.g. The problem is really hard to work out.
My boss is easy to deal with.
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???????????????????,?????, ??????????????, ???to
do, ???to be done???????
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??????surprised, moved, disappointed, pleased,
happy, sad, delighted, sorry, interested, glad,
worried, etc.
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8. Finally, I had to give in.
??, ?????? give in (to sb./sth.) ???, ??, ??
e.g. He had to give in to my views. Its
time you gave in your papers.
give up ??, ?? give out ?????? give
away ??, ??
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1) After the long trip, both the men and the
horses ________. 2) Because of his small salary,
he had to _______ his dream trip to Europe. 3)
Seeing that he could not persuade me, he had to
________ my view.
gave out
gave up
gave in to
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4) He _________ most of his fortune to the
poor. 5) Please keep the secret, dont ____ it
_____.
gave away
gave
away
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8. It becomes rapids as it passes through deep
valleys, traveling across western Yunnan
Province.
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across
prep. ??
through
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across ??????????????????????, ??, ?? ??,
???on ??
through ?????????????, ???in ??
over?? ?? ????????????????
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e.g. She swam across the river. The river
flows through the city from west to east.
Walk across the square and go through the gate,
then youll come to the cafe. The thief
climbed over the wall and ran away.
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• The new railway winds its way to Hong Kong, ___
  mountains ___ tunnels and ___ rivers.
• across over through
• over across through
• over through across
• through over across