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2. Get the students to learn about the usage of The Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.
Ability aims:
Develop the students reading ability and let them learn to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on.
Emotional aims:
Stimulate the students’ love for nature by getting them to know the greatness of a river.
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→Step 1 Lead-in and Warming up
1. Brainstorming some questions
Do you like traveling? Why do you like traveling? Where have you ever been before? How did you get there? If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transportations will you use and why?
Show the chart and ask students to discuss it in pairs.
Name of the transportations Means of transportation Reasons
by car (in a car)
by bike
by plane (by air)
by train ( on a train)
by bus ( on a bus)
by ship (by water or by boat)
in a hot balloon
by motorbike (on a motorbike)
by jeep
by truck
in a plate
2. Following the steps of the Warm up on Page 17.
→Step 2 Pre-reading
1. Imaging and sharing
Do you like traveling along a river? What role does a river play in people’s daily life? That is, how do people who live along a river use it?
Suggested answers:
People can drink the water in a river.
People can wash their clothes in a river.
People can swim in summer and skate in winter.
People can irrigate their fields.
People can use a river to produce electricity.
People can travel along a river.
. . .
2. Talking and sharing
As is known, the world has many great rivers. On the left are names of some great rivers and the right locations where the rivers lie. Please match them.
Names of River Locations
Mekongª¤Germany
Rhineª¤China£¬SE Asia
Nileª¤Egypt
Congoª¤England
Thamesª¤Central Africa
Amazonª¤US
Mississippiª¤Brazil
Ask the students:If you could travel down only one of them, which one would you choose? Why?

→Step 3 While-reading
1. Skimming
1)The students read the passage quickly and answer the question:What are Wang Kun and Wang Wei going to do?
2)Fill in the table:
Type of writing
Main idea of the passage
Topic sentence of the 1st paragraph
Topic sentence of the 2nd paragraph
Topic sentence of the 3rd paragraph

Suggested answers:

Type of writing This is a travel journal.
Main idea of the passage Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s dream of taking a great bike trip, their different attitudes, Wang Wei’s determination, and their preparations for the trip.
Topic sentence of the 1st paragraph It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River.
Topic sentence of the 2nd paragraph Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that we find the source of the river and begin our journey there.
Topic sentence of the 3rd paragraph We found a large atlas with good maps that showed the details of the world geography.
2. Scanning
1)Go through Comprehending Exercise 1 and make sure the students know what to do. Let them read the whole passage again to locate particular information and answer each question on Page 19.
2)Choose the best answers according to the passage.
(1)What’s the author’s attitude towards his sister, Wang Wei?

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