Reading

Moon RiverMoon river, wider than a mile;I'm crossing you in style some day;Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker;Wherever you're goin', i'm goin' your way; Two drifters, off to see the world;There's such a lot of world to see;We're after the same rainbow's;Waitin’ round the bend, my huckleberry friend; Moon river, and me …

Questions:

• Do you like travelling?

• Where have you been?

• Can you tell your partner something about it?

I Warming Up

by busby plane / by air

Which kind of transport do you prefer to use?

by bikeon foot

by car

•Where are you going on holiday? •When are you leaving? •How are you going to…? •How long are you staying ? •When are you arriving in /at…?•Where are you staying?•When are you coming back?

Suppose you have four days, discuss where you might go in pairs. Remember to ask the following questions:

Warming Up

Yangtze

Amazon

NileMekong

Yellow River

Look at the pictures and try to guess the names of the rivers.(教师先出示相关河流图片。 )

plain

valley

waterfall

glacier rapids

II Pre-reading

China

Laos

Myanmar

Thailand

Cambodia

Vietnam

Can you list the countries that the Mekong flows through?

Skimming

1. Read the text quickly and answer the following questions:

•Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?

•What is their dream?

•Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?

•What do you think they will see when they travel along the Mekong River?

III Reading

• Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? They are brother and sister.• What is their dream? Their dream is to take a long bike trip.• Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? They are Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s cousins.• What do you think they will see when they travel

along the Mekong River? I think they will see glaciers, rapids, deep valleys,

waterfalls and a delta.

2. Read the text again, and fill in the following chart:

Their dream To take a long bike trip Wang Wei’s suggestion

_________________________

Their preparations _________________________

Why a difficult journey?

_________________________

Wang Kun believes…

1.they must start in __________where the river begins.2.that they don’t need to_______ much.

Wang Wei believes…

1.it is _____________ to start in Qinghai.2.that ______________ is very important.

Their dream To take a long bike trip

Wang Wei’s suggestion

Their preparations

Why is it such a difficult journey?

To find the source and begin there

Both of them bought expensive bikes, got their cousins to join them and researched in the atlas in the library

It begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres where it is hard to breathe and very cold

Wang Kun believes…

1.they must start in __________

where the river begins.

2.that they don’t need to ______________ much.

Wang Wei believes…

1.it is ___________________ to start in Qinghai.

2.that ______________ is very important.

Qinghai

prepare

too cold and high

using an atlas

3. Read the text and the notes P80-82 No.1-9 carefully, and find some difficult sentences in the text.

4. Discuss Wang Kun’s and Wang Wei’s attitude to the trip in groups, and finish Exercise 3 on page 19.

Wang Wei’s attitude

Wang Kun’s attitude

My attitude

Positive. She wants to organize it as it was her idea.

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

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

Wang Kun and his sister middle school

after graduating got the chance to

thought of the idea cycle the Mekong River

bought bicycles got sb. interested in

journey begin at an altitude of

change one’s mind atlas in the library

IV Retelling

1. Read the text again, underline the important

words and phrases and find out the difficult

sentences for you.

2. Finish SB P20 Ex. 1-3.

3. Retell the text using your own words.

V Homework