1. 英语阅读研究课
外研版高中英语必修四第五模块
教师：杨明

2. What will the writer tell us in the following part?
In August 1996, Peter Hessler, a young American teacher of English, arrived in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. He and a colleague were to spend two years there teaching English at a teacher training college. They were the only foreigners in the town. The first semester finished at the end of January and they had four weeks off for the Spring Festival. They could go anywhere they wished. They decided to take a boat downstream.
What will the writer tell us in the following part?

3. Module 5
A Trip Along the Three Gorges

4. In what order do you think the whole passage was written?
It was written in the order of space/ in space (spatial) order.

5. Read the passage aloud and fill in the blanks.
A Trip Along the Three Gorges
Time
Passengers
Means of transportation
What they saw and what they did
From Fuling to Fengdu
Along the Qutang Gorge
Along the Wu Gorge
Coming out of the Xiling Gorge

6. A Trip Along the Three Gorges What they saw and what they did
Time
Passengers
Means of transportation
What they saw and what they did
From Fuling to Fengdu
Along the Qutang Gorge
Along the Wu Gorge
Coming out of the Xiling Gorge
during the Spring Festival,1997
Peter Hessler and his colleague
boat
the sun shining/setting,sailed
slept through it
Xiang River, home of Qu Yuan ,rocks, streams, and hills
flag blowing, a sign, took pictures and pointed at the site

7. Complete the definitions of the words in the box.
construction site
1 A _________________ is the place where something is being built.
2 To _________ means to buy and sell things.
3. If you _______ somewhere you go there quickly.
4. _________ is the opposite of near.
5. ________ are things you can buy or sell.
6. A __________ is a very old story which is probably
not true.
7. The sun rises in the east and ______ in the west.
8. A _______ is someone who writes poems.
9. A __________ is someone who works with you.
10. __________ is a plant which grows quickly and is
used to make furniture.
trade
rush
Distant
Goods
legend
sets
poet
colleague
Bamboo

8. Match the words with their definition.
characters deck dock detour
exploit pagoda raft
a place where boats load and unload
a simple boat made of pieces of wood tied together
a Buddhist temple
a change of route
a floor on a boat
marks or signs used in writing
to use or take advantage of
dock
raft
pagoda
detour
deck
characters
exploit

9. What do you learn from the passage?
What do you travel for?

10. Homework
1. Finish reading exercise3 on page43.
2. Please write a passage about a place with its history in our school.

11. Thank you!