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Module Three My First Ride on a train Period 2
Teaching content: Reading and Vocabulary Step 1 Warming up(brainstorming) Answer the following questions:
Situation : If you go to Beijing in 2008, how will you get there? Why do you choose to go by …?
(The Ss’ answers are free. After a while, go on asking the following questions: Do you think it is wonderful if we go by train? What do you want to do on a train?) Suggested answers: Play cards
Talk to other passengers Enjoy the food on the train
Enjoy the scenery along the trip Read books
Listen to music …
Step 2 pre-reading
Look at the pictures on page 22, and answer the following questions. 1.Where do you think they were taken? Australia. 2. Do you know how many people live there? About 20 million. 3. Do you know the name of the capital city? Canberra. 4. Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast?
On the east/ southeast coast. 5. What do you think the central part of the country is like? Desert. 6. What Australian animals do you know about?
Koala bear, duck-billed platypus, kangaroo, dingo… Step3 Detail Reading
a. Skimming and scanning: read the text fast, try to find the answers to these questions.
1. How old is the writer?
2. When was a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem passed?
3. What’s the passage about?
Suggested answers:1. 18 2. In 1925 3. Traveling to the central part of Australia. b. Complete the following table according to the content of the text. Alice’s trip Name of the train 探索尚未知道的东西
Place Time Scenery From__________to ____________ c. Tick out what Alice did on the train ( ) ate meals cooked by experts
( ) made friends with other passengers ( ) talked to other passengers ( )sang songs ( )read books
( )watched the night sky d. Answer the following questions: What’s Alice’s destination?
Was the scenery the same during the whole journey? What did she do while she was on the train?
What did the Australians use to travel to the central part of the country? They don’t use camels to deliver goods now, do they? Suggested answers:
Her destination was the central part of Australia. No, it wasn’t.
She read books and listened to her Chinese cassettes while she was on the train. The Australia used camels to travel to the central part of the country. No, they don’t Step 4 Post reading
Conclude the general idea of each paragraph. General idea Para.1 Para.2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Suggested answers:
Para 1：Information about the writer and her train ride. Para 2: What the writer saw on the train. Para 3: What the writer did on the train Para 4: Why is the train called the Ghan? Para 5: The use of camels.
Para 6: What happened to the camels. b. Reading Comprehension
1.What means of transportation were used in the Middle part of Australia? _____ A. horses B. camels C. train D. all of the above 2. Australians used camels instead of horses, because______. A. horses didn’t like the hot weather and sand B. they bought some camels from Afghanistan.
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C. Camels were much better than horses for traveling a long distance D. Both A and C
3. Australians used to travel on camels for ________.
A. business B. tour C. farming D. animal training 4. The writer talked a lot about camels, because________.
A. camels are of great use in traveling and quite helpful for man B. she was planning to travel on a camel with her friend soon C. readers are often interested in stories about animals
D. the writer wanted to explain why the train was called Ghan. 5. Which of the following is true?_____
A. The police shot the trained camels with the permission of the government. B. The Afghanistan government passed a law to shoot trained animals. C. The writer used to travel long distances on a train alone. Suggested answers: D D A D A Step 5 Key points
1. in the distance / at a distance
Trees should not be planted close together but at a distance. He had disappeared in the distance before I could greet him. 2. abandoned
He abandoned his house to the new comers.
Don’t just abandon yourself to a life of pleasure. Because of the crowd trouble, the match was abandoned 3. desert n & v
desert a house/ a village/ one’s wife and children 4. exhausted adj.
He was totally exhausted after the long ride through the desert. 5. supply v & n
supply sth. to / for sb. supply sb. with sth.
The company supplies us with electricity and gas.
Helicopters dropped supplies (of food and clothing) to the villagers. 6. allow vt. & vi.
permit sb to do or let sth happen sth . allow sb. to do sth.
They are not allowed to smoke in the office. They don’t allow smoking in the hospital.
The doctor allowed him up for two hours only, for he is still in poor health. 7. refer to
The expert referred to at the meeting is Dr. Li. The discipline refers only to soldiers.
The new law only refers to the camels used for delivering food. 8. more than one
More than one visitor likes the scenery here. 9. on the coast ~ off the coast.
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Soon the ships appeared off the coast.
There are some hills on the coast and you can see some islands off the coast. 10. be short for.
WTO is short for the World Trade Organization. be short of = lack
Though they are short of money, his parents managed to send him to college. 11. in the 1920s / in the 1920’s in the 20’s / 20s in one’s 20s
12. at a speed over 400 kilometers per hour at a / the speed of 1000 meters a second. at full / top / high speed at the top of one’s speed with speed / with great speed. Homework:
Retell Alice first ride on a train.
