Unit 3 Readi

ng

Moon 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’ yo

ur way;

Moon River

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 huckle

berry friend;

Moon river, and me…

Warming UpIf you’re going to travel

along a river with someone.Who are you going with?

How are you traveling?

Which river will you choose?

What will you prepare?

From where will you start?

When are you coming back?I am going with… We are starting from…

Can you guess what the names of these rivers are?

the YellowRiver

the Yangtze River

Can you guess what the names of these rivers are?

Can you guess what the names of these rivers are? the Pearl River

the Amazon River

Can you guess what the names of these rivers are?

the River Nile

Names of river Location

Mekong River

Seine

Nile

Gongo

Amazon

Mississippi

Thames

England

Egypt

Central Africa

US

France

China

Brazil

The great rivers in the world

How do people who live

along a river make use of

it?To irrigate the fields.

To go swimming in it in su

mmer.

To make electricity.

To travel along it. 　…

Laos

Thailand

Myanmar

Cambodia

Vietnam

Pre-reading

Skimming : What was their dream?

Wang Kun and his sister

Reading1. Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?3. Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?4. What can you see when you travel al

ong the Mekong River?5. Is it a difficult journey along the M

ekong River?

1. Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei?

They are brother and sister, and b

oth are college students.

2. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?

They are Wang Kun’s cousins who

are at a college in Kunming.

3. What was their dream?Their dream was to take a great

bike trip.4. Where is the source of the Mek

ong River and which sea does it e

nter?

The source of the river is in Qingh

ai Province and it enters the Sout

h China Sea.

5. What can you see when you tra

vel along the Mekong River?

You can see glacier, rapids, hill

s, valleys, waterfalls and plains.

glacier

waterfall

plain

valley

canyon

delta

rapids

6. Is it a difficult journey along the M

ekong River?

Yes. The journey begins at an altit

ude of more than 5,000 meters, wh

ere it is hard to breathe and very c

old.

Find out the countries that the Mekong River flows through.

ChinaLaosBurma Thailand CambodiaVietnam

Complete the Form

Their

dream

Their

preparations

They bought

______________, got their

cousins

____________________and

found_______.

Taking a great bike trip.

expensive bikes

interested in travelling

an atlas

The

Mekong

River

It begins at ___________________

_________, moves ______ and pas

ses 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

Southeast Asia

hills and low valleys and plains

the South China

Sea

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.

The main idea of the text The passage tells us that no success in

life merely happens by describing my

sister’s and my dream-taking a bike trip

and preparations for the trip. The

author also mainly describes sister’s

“stubborn character”, “always taking

her way for a proper way” and her

being determined.

Retell the text according to the Form

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

heard that the source of the Mekong

River is in Qinghai Province, she

wouldn’t… 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…

Homework

1. Try to retell the reading in the third

person.

2. Prepare for Learning about language.