 Welcome to my class!

Brainstorming: Vehicles( 交通工具 )

My First Ride on a Ghan The

kangaroo

Koala bear 考拉熊

Australia Sydney Opera House the map of Australia the national flag Alice Springs beach Kangaroo

5. What Australian animals do you know about? 1. Do you know how many people live there? 2. Do you know the name of the capital city? 3. Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast? 4. What do you think the central part of the country is like? Australia More than 20 million Canberra On the coast Desert Kangaroo

abandoned camels cassette clouds colourful desert diamonds distance experts famous farms fields food government law meal midnight passengers products recently sand scenery shine shoot soil supply weather Check the meaning of these words and match some of the words with these definitions. 1. an area of land where it is always dry 2. valuable stones 3. people who travel on a train, bus or plane 4. you find this on beaches 5. white or grey things made of water in the sky 6. where plants grow desert diamonds passengers sand clouds soil / fields / farms

a child visiting her grandmother What is the passage about? a train ride to Sydney taking the train to Australia traveling to the central part of Australia

Read the passage again carefully and fill in the gap Alice Thompson made her first long-distance train ride at the age of _____. She got on in _______ and got off in Alice Springs. They ate meals cooked by _______. They saw fields, soil, desert and _____________ farms which were built over 100 years ago. On the train, Alice talked to other ___________ and studied Chinese. She watched the night sky and found stars. Why is the train called the Ghan? It is short for _____________. The Afghans trained the ________ to carry food and supplies. They did this until _______. 18Sydney experts abandoned passengers Afghanistan camels the 1920s

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 Paragraph 6 Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 She tells She describes She explains A. the origin of the Ghan train and the means of transport for traveling a long distance in the past. B. when and where their travel took place. C.the scenery all the journey.

2. Talk about Australia 1. Recite the new words and phrases 3.The exercises on page Homework: