2 Make your own poster. Put your question at the top of the poster and the ideas down as bullet points. The following is a sample poster. Why should we do exercise? o to keep fit o to moke us strong o to fight ilness and disease Reasons o to enjoy ourselves o to build up our skills Some exereise a day keeps the doctor away! confusion 3 If it is possible, write a short passage based on your poster SUMMING UP Wrte down whot you have learned obout different kinds of English From this unit you have also learned ● useful verbs: O useful nouns: ● useful adjectives: ● other expressions: ● o new grammar item LEARNING TIP READNNG FOR FUN When you learn English. try to have fun with Tongue twisters the language. Maybe you can make lists of words and find out several different meanings e Can you can a can as a canner can for each of them. Then you can make some jokes using these words, but you must know How many cookies could a good their different meanings. For example: cook cook if a good cook could Dont rock that baby on the rock while cook cookies? A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good playing that rock music. cook who could cook cookies
Unit Travel journal Varming Up 1 Which kind of transport do you prefer to use: bus or train? Think about the advantages and disadvantages of each form of transport and fill in the following chart Transport Advantages Disadvantages airplane 2 Imagine that you plan to spend a holiday. Choose a place you want to visit. Think the fare for different kinds of transport and decide how to get there. Then, get into Use these questions to make a dialogue about your holidays When are you leaving are you st How are you going to.? How long are you staying in 7 When are you arriving in/at .? When are you coming back? 6uipea-ald Many people live beside a river. How do they make use of it in their daily life? The world has many great rivers. If you could follow the route of only one of them, which one would you choose? Why? Look at the map on page 18 and list the countries that the Mekong River flows through
Unit 3 Travel journal Reading JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG PART I THE DREAM AND THE PLAN My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded s me to buy one. Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other countries 10 Wang Wei soon got them interested in eyeline too After graduating from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike trip. I asked my sister."Where are we going?"It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it is begins to where it ends. Now she is planning our schedule for the trip. I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be really stubborn Although she didnt know the best way of getting to places. she insisted that she organize the trip properly. Now I know that the proper way is always her way. I kept asking her. "When are we leaving and when are we coming back? I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet.Of 20 course she hadnt: my sister doesn't care about details, So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a determined look-the kind that said she would not change her mind. When I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5.000 metres, she seemed to be excited about it. When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting experience. I know my sister we 25 Once she has made up her mind. nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give in Several months before our trip. Wang Wei and I went to the library. We found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan mountain. At first the river is small and the wat is clear and cold. Then it begins to move quickly. It becomes rapids as it passes through deep wo valleys, travelling across western Yunnan Province. Sometimes the river becomes a waterfall and enters wide valleys. We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China. After it leaves China and high altitude, the Mekong becomes wide, brown and warm. As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows, It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows. At last. the river delta enters the South China Sea
Unit s Travel joun Comprehending 1 Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions I What was Wang Kun and Wang Weis idea of a good trip? 2 Who planned the trip to the Mekong? Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea does it enter? 4 what can you see when you travel along the Mekong? 5 What difficulties did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey? b What do you think about Wang Kun and Wang Wei? 2 Look at the following sentences from the text and explain them in your own words. I She gave me a determined look-the kind that said that she would not change her mind. 2 my sister does not care about details. i It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows. 3 An attitude is what a person thinks about something. Write down Wang Wei,'s and Wang Kun's attitude to the trip then add your own opinion Wang Weis attitude Wang Kun's attitude My attitude 4 Work in pairs. Imagine that you are Wang Kun and Wang Wei. choose a paragraph from the passage and use the information to help you make up a dialogue WANG WEI: You know, weve always wanted to do a long bike trip. Why don we go on one after we graduate from college? WANG KUN: Thats a good idea 5 Compare the following sentences with different stresses and explain the meaning EXAMPLE: We were both surprised to learn that half the river is in China Not only my sister, but also I was surprised to learn that We were both surprised to learn that half the river is in China. We were both surprised to learn that hal/ the river is in China We were both surprised to learn that half the river is in China
Unit 3 Travel joumal Learning about Language Discovering useful words and expressions 1 Find the correct words or expressions from the text for each sentence I He is so stubborn that no one can him to do anything. A- person always tries to finish the job, no matter how hard it is 3 My grandpa fishing and sometimes he fishes all day in the river 4 Liu Xiaoding is a good teacher and his students very much the red dress to the green one because it fits me better. b The concert went like clock work because Li Pei had it so well 7 I wanted to pay the train but my friend insisted. Finally I She persuaded all of us to to work instead of taking the bus 2 Choose the correct words or phrases to complete the sentences I As neither of them would no decision was taken that day. (give in/give up) the first flat we saw because it was larger.(like. better/ prefer.to 3 The task was difficult, but Helens expression let me know that she would not give up.(stubbom/determined 4 The list of gifts was very long, and we don t know why. but the most important golden cup. was forgotten.(detail /iter s "How I wish I could make a into space and see the stars up close! cried Sarah Journey /travel) b When he returned from his successful climb of Mount Qomolongma, Andrew finished hi travel Journal /diary )and gave it to the newspaper. 7 She had only on she was very stubborn. (disadvantage /shortcoming) 8 The very first time that Joe saw the film"ET" directed by Steven Spielberg. he become a director too.( make up one's mind change ones mind) Complete this passage with some of the following words. ids glacier mountain delta plain valley waterfall bank I really enjoyed my school field trip in geography two months ago. We saw so many beautifu things: a that flowed like a river of ice through a that cut the mountain into two parts. We also discovered a river that was falling off the mountain and became a wonderful This was even more exciting to see than the where the water seemed to boil. Later we followed the river to a quieter and finally into a and the sea