Unit 3

Travel Journal

Huangshan

Huangguoshu Waterfall

Oriental Pearl TV & Radio Tower

Do you like travelling?

Where have you been?

How did you find your travel?

Why do people travel? To see other countriesTo visit famous, interesting or beautiful

placesTo meet new friendsTo try new kinds of foodTo experience life in other parts of the

worldTo get away from cold weatherTo get an unusual experience

What do you have to consider before you decide which means of transportation you will use? speedtimecomfortconveniencesafetyprice/cost

Always remember when you travel:Leave nothing behind except your footprints.

Take nothing away except your good memory.

LaosVietnam

Cambodia

Thailand

Myanmar

Now choose one place to visit

Make up a dialogue by asking each other the following questions:

1.Where are you going on holiday?

2.When are you leaving?

3.How are you going there?

4.How long are you staying there?

Game Time

Name of the River Location

Mekong

Rhein

Ganges

Seine

Nile

Thames

Volga

Danube

Amazon

Mississippi

England

Egypt

India

Russia

Brazil

France

Germany

SE Asia

US

Central Europe

Keys to Exercise 1 :1.They are brother and sister, and both are c

ollege students.2. Their dream was to take a great bike trip.3.They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a

college in Kunming.4. In Qinghai province and it enters the Sout

h China Sea.5.You can see glacier, rapids, hills, valleys,

waterfalls and plains.6.Yes. The journey begins at a altitude of mo

re than 5000 metres where it is hard to breathe and very cold.

Their dream

Wang Wei’s idea

Their preparations

The Mekong river

Taking a ….trip

Cycle along…from…to…

Bought…, got their cousins… ,went to…found…

begins at …on…; at first, the river is…the water is…;then …Half of it... ;As it enters the Southeast Asia, it travels…, at last it enters…

Outline(概要 ) of the story

The language points;

1.fare – money spent on a journey taxi/bus/air fare, a single/one-way fare

eg. How much is the air fare to Beijing?

2.dream about/ dream of; dream that …

have a dream; dream a dream; realize one’dream

eg. The young soldier often dreams of his hometown.

My brother dreams of becoming a spaceman.

I dreamed that I was flying like a bird in the sky.

3.Sentence Structure for emphasis:

It is/was + 被强调部分 +that/who+…

Eg. All the members held a meeting in the club yesterday.

It was all the members that/who held a meeting in the club yesterday.

It was a meeting that all the members held in the club yesterday.

It was in the club that all the members held a meeting yesterday.

It was yesterday that all the members held a meeting in the club.

It is I that/who am your true friend.Practise: put the sentences into emphasis

sentences separately A group of foreigners made a journey alon

g the Yangtze River last year.4.insist insist on/upon doing 坚持做某事insist on one’s doinginsist that …Eg. I’ll go with you if you insist.They insisted on talking to the manager.他坚持要独自一人去西藏旅游。He insisted on travelling to Tibat by himself.

…,she insisted that we find the source of the river and begin our journey there. (anything wrong with the sentence)

注意： insist 表达“坚持，坚决主张”时，所跟的宾语从句使用虚拟语气：主语 +should do ，其中 should 可省略；表达“坚持一种说法，看法或事物”时，宾语从句使用陈述语序和相应的时态

Some students insisted that they (should) hold a party but others insisted that they had no interest in it.

He insisted that a doctor_______ immediately.(has been sent for / sends for / will be sent fo

r / be sent for )

4.Then she persuaded me to buy one.

persuade sb. to do sth.

=persuade sb. into doing sth. 说服了某人做某事

Wang Kun couldn’t persuade his sister to change her mind.

advise sb. to do sth. 劝某人做某事His wife advised him to give up smoking, but

he didn’t listen.

5.care about :be worried, concerned or interested 在乎，关心，惦念She doesn’t care much about her dressing.Don’t you care about anybody? care for 关心，喜欢We should care for each other and help each oth

er.Would you care for a walk now?6. a determined look 坚定的眼神 determine (v) 决定，决心，确定 determine to do sth.=decide to do sth. be determined to do sth.=make up one’s mind

to do sth.

Weather determines the harvest.He firmly determined to rise in the world whatev

er it took.Are you determined to learn every subject well?7.When are we leaving and when are we coming

back?=When are we going to leave and when are we g

oing to come back.现在进行时表将来动作，表示主观打算或安排。下列

动词常有这种用法。go, leave, come, arrive, start, stay, meet, travel,do, buy, sing, give…(now almost every verb can be used in this way)

1.dream about/of

2.take a bike trip

3.graduate from

4.persuade sb. to do sth.

5.insist on/upon doing sth.

6.change one’s mind

7.give in

8.pass through

9.give a determined look,

Retell the text Wang Kun and his sister dreamed about taking a

great bike trip since middle school. After graduation from college,they finally got the chance to make their dream come true. His sister thought of an idea to cycle along the Mekong river. They both bought expensive bikes. They also got their cousin interested in cycling. Wang Wei stuck to the idea that they found the source and began their journey there. When she heard that the source of the river is in Qinghai province, she wouldn’t change her mind. She even became excited when she got to know their journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5000 meters. Before the trip they found a large atlas in the library. From the atlas they knew clearly about the Mekong River.