My First Ride on a Train

     

Lecturer 日照一中 刘爽

Koala Kangaroo

beachdesert

camels

A a train ride to Sydney B taking the train to Australia C travelling to the central part of Australia by

trainD a child visiting her grandmother

Read the passage quickly and silently and answer the following question.

What is the passage mainly about?

Read para.1 carefully and find out the following information.

when

who

what

how

where

how long

recently

Alice Thompson and her friend

have their first ride

on a long-distance train---the Ghan

get on / Sydney, get off / Alice Spring

two days and nights

Read para.2 -3 and describe the journey

train _______ _________

food ________ _________ passengers______

What was the scenery like?

What scenery did Alice see?

What did Alice do on the train?

great

fields soil desert sun sky abandoned farms

look out of

wonderful/ comfortable

nicecooked by experts

colorful

watchtalk read listen to

Read the last three paragraphs and find out the events during the following time.A long time ago

A hundred and fifty years ago

the 1920s

In 1925

needed a way/tried riding horses

brought camels/ Afghanistan

built a railway/ didn’t need camels

passed a law/allow/shoot

carried food and other supplies

returned with wools and products

Choose the best answer according to the passage.

1) Australians used to travel on camels for _________.A. business B. tour C. farming D. animal training 2) In general, the writer _________.A. showed no interest in his trip by trainB. thinks his ride was interesting but too long.C. enjoyed his ride on the train.D. disliked the way the camels we treated in Australia.3) The writer talked a lot about camels in his writing, because________.A. Camels played an important part in his traveling.B. He was planning to travel on a camel.C. Readers are often interested in animals.D. The writer wanted to explain why the train was called Ghan.

Trained animals carried food and other supplies.

We saw abandoned farms which were more than a hundred years ago.

We ate great meals cooked by experts! Can you give some other examples?

Read the sentences and translate the underlined parts into Chinese.

given time used car a teacher called Ms Shen

meals which were cooked by experts

Animals which were trained

farms which were abandoned

Discussion

Do you think the camels should be shot? Suppose you are a government official, what would you do with the camels?

Discuss the following question with your partners.

Homework

1. Underline the sentences that you think are beautiful.

2. Read and recite the text.

Discussion

1. Do you think the camels should be shot? Why?

2. If you write about a journey, what should be included in your passage?

Choose one of the topics you like and discuss it with your partners.

A Journey• 1.Who• 2.When• 3.Where• 4.How• 5.What• 6.How long

7. Your feelings

Language focus1. And what a ride! ( = what a beautiful ride it was! )

这是多么美妙的旅行啊！2. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in th

e middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometers away. 我们在悉尼上车，在位于四千多米外的澳大利亚中部的艾丽斯斯普林斯下车。

3.The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s.

直到二十世纪二十年代，阿富汗人和他们的骆驼还在这样做着。4.Then the government built a new railway line, so they didn’t ne

ed the camels any more. 后来政府修建了一条铁路线，所以他们不再需要骆驼了。

My First Long-distance Travel

• I had my first long-distance travel in June this year. I went to Tibet with my husband . We went there by plane. But first we went to Jinan by car. Then we got on the plane. We landed on Chengdu and changed another plane to fly to Lasa. Then we took a bus to get to the hotel where we lived. It wholel journey took us one day.

My First Long-distance Travel• Flying on a plane is wonderful. In fact ,it was my first fly o

n a plane. After the plane took off ,it soon flew above the clouds The sky was azure/bright blue. I had never seen such blue sky before. And the clouds were like cotton. It seemed that the plane was flying above piles of cotton. The plane supply snacks ,drinks ,magazines for the passengers. I did nothing but watch out of the window and kept on taking photos. When I got off the plane in Lasa,I found the sky was also bright blue. I spent five days there. Whenever I got outside I would looked up at the sky,it was always bright blue with white clouds of different shapes flowing about. The blue sky and white clouds left a deep impression on me. After I returned home I often look up at the sky. It is ofen grey. I do hope our sky will be that blue .

• 1.No.She tavelled on the train recently.

• 2.No, it was Alice Springs in the centre of Australia.

• 3. No, at first there were fields, then it

• was dessert.

• 4.Yes, she studied Chinese.

• 5.Yes, at first, but the horses didn’t like the hot weather.

• 6.No, they use the train now.