1. Comprehensive learning
Unit 3 Travel journal
Comprehensive learning

3. Questions 1. What can you see from these pictures?
2. What do you think of the view?
3. What’s the weather like?
4. If you had a chance to travel there, what would
you want to see? What would you want to
experience?
5. Can you imagine what you would do to spend a night in the mountain? What will happen?

4. Note taking in the reading
Snowmen ride bicycle, water bottle froze, climb mountains, go down hills, change clothes
In the afternoon
Make camp, put up tent, go to sleep, sky clear, stars bright, flames of fire
In the evening
Dali, cousins join
Destination

5. Words or expressions describing the emotion so heavy and so cold
shone like glass in the setting sun and looked
wonderful
encourage
hard work
surprised by the view
great fun
colourful butterflies
sky became clearer
starts grew brighter
hardly wait to see them

6. Ex. 1 on P.22:
1. What items are Wang Kun and Wang Wei carrying with them? What do you think they will have to leave behind in Dali? What should they take instead?
Wang Kun and Wang Wei are carrying a tent, a cooker and food, pillows, water bottles. In the mountains they wore long wool coats, caps, gloves and trousers. In the plains they changed into T-shirts and shorts.
2. How does Wang Kun feel about the trip now? What do you think changed his attitude?
He is starting to enjoy it. Seeing how beautiful the land is has
changed Wang Kun’s attitude.

7. Imagine that in the morning there is a dialogue between Wang Kun and Wang Wei. What do you think they would say before they leave camp?
Sample dialogue:
WK: Oh, up so early?
WW: Early? It’s nearly 9 o’clock.
WK: Oops. ( Look at his watch). I guess you’re right.
WW: Why were you so tired?
WK: Well, I stayed up late last night to watch the stars.
WW: That’s nice. They must be pretty.
WK: Yes, they were.

8. Difficult sentences
Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us.
dressed in long wool coats 为过去分词作状语修饰前面的children, 可以把此句改成定语从语的形式为：Along the way children who were dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us.
2) To climb the mountains road was hard work but …
不定式作主语, 谓语动词用单数, 可以用形式主语it。
eg: To learn a foreign language is important for your future work.
= It is important for your future work to learn a foreign language.

9. 3) We had to change our caps, coats, gloves, and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.
Wait, it won’t take me long to change.
change into 换上….衣服
eg: You’re supposed to change into your working clothes.
get changed 换好衣服
Sara, hurry up. I’m afraid you won’t have time to _______ before the party.
A. get changed B. get change
C. get changing D. get to change

10. 4) In the early evening, we always stop to make camp. 傍晚我们停下来宿营。
camp n. [C, U] 野营, 营地, 营帐
[短语] make camp 扎营, 宿营
go camping 去露营, 去野营
eg: At weekends many Australians go camping in the countryside called the bush.
Make sentences using the following phrases:
1) so… that … ) be dressed in
3) as usual ) think about
5) at midnight

11. the major clues to guess
Guess what the listening will talk about from Ex. 2 and 3.
the major clues to guess
Usage, … some others?
Talk about the
Mekong River
Dialogue between a
girl and Wang Kun

13. Answer key Ex. 1 C Ex. 2 appears flag washing fishing
transporting sea rocks waterfall
villages

15. ?
host guests
food
About Laos
clothes
customs ?

16. Homework 1. Review the new words and phrases in the
reading passage and retell the travel journal
using your own words;
2. Find more information about the Mekong
River in the internet and note down in the
diary.