课题：Unit3 Warming up and ReadingLearning aims: 1. Enable students to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each form of transport.2. Help students to design a travel plan.3. Help students to learn some information about Mekong River.Learning guide: 1. Warming up⑴Warming up by discussingWork in groups, talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each form of transport and fill in the blanks.transportationAdvantagesDisadvantages⑵Work in groups ,talk about a travel plan.(where, what, when, how long…) 2. Pre-reading (1.) Talk about how the people who live beside a river make use of it in their daily life?(2.) Look at the map and name the countries that Mekong River flows through.3. ReadingSkimming1). Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s dream was to ____________________. A. travel around China B. travel around Yunnan Province C. take a great motorcycle trip D. take a great bike trip 2). Wang Wei’s plan was to ______________. A. visit their cousins B. buy an expensive mountain bike 用心 爱心 专心1 C. cycle along the Mekong River D. cycle along the Yellow River 3). _______ planned the schedule for the trip. A. Wang Kun B. Wang Wei C. Dao Wei D Yu Hang4). the main idea of the passage:The passage is mainly about __________ and ____ ______ dream and _____ for taking a great _____ ____ along the Mekong River. The Mekong River1.It begins at a _____ on a mountain which is at an ______of more than 5000 meters. 2. It is small and the water is_____ and _____at first. Then it moves quickly and ____ through deep valley.3.Half of it is in China and it is called ____ River in China.4. As it enters Southeast Asia , it travels slowly through _____ _______ , and the plains where rice grows.4. ScanningRead the passage to find the main idea of each paragraph.1). Match the main ideas with the paragraphsPara. 1: Wang Wei insisted on finding the source of the river and beginning their journey there.Para. 2: From the atlas, they learned a lot about the Mekong River.Para. 3: The writer and his sister finally got a chance to take a great trip.2). Information about the Mekong River.The Mekong River begins in a _______ on a mountain. At first, the river is ______ , and the water is _____ and ____. Then it begins to move _______. It becomes ______ as it passes through deep valleys, travelling across western Yunnan Province. Sometimes the river becomes a ________ and enters wide valleys. We were both surprised to learn that _____of the river is in China. After it leaves China and high altitude, the Mekong becomes _____, ______ and ______. As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace _____. It makes wide _____ or meanders through low valleys to the ______ where rice grows. At last, the river delta enters the South China Sea.5. Self-evaluation(自我反思)：用心 爱心 专心2
