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The Second Period ReadingTeaching goals1. Learn something about the Mekong River through reading.2. Students can use what they have learned to describe a trip.3. Students should realize if they want to be successful, what personalities they should have.Teaching important and difficult points:1. Understand the text well.2. Try to master the useful new words & expressions in this period.Teaching aids: a computer & a projectorTeaching proceduresStep Warming UpT: Do you like travelling?Present some pictures of beautiful places to arouse their interest of travelling. Meanwhile, the teacher can also ask some more questions to make the students say something about their journey , such as their plans of trips, the difficulties they met in their journey and so on.Step Lead InT: Q1: Have you visited any river? Q2: How many great rivers do you know?Q3 : If you could travel down only one of them, which one would you choose? Why?Ask the students the locations of some famous rivers in the world .(Mekong, Rhein, Seine, Nile, Thames, Congo, Amazon, Mississippi, Volg)Step Pre-readingT: Have you visited the Mekong River? If no, lets learn something about it.1. Show a picture of the Mekong River and the brief introduction of it. Ask them:Can you list the countries that the Mekong River flows through?3. Enjoy the beautiful sights along the Mekong River to arouse their interest of it.Step IV ReadingIn this step, get the students to read the text and finish some tasks.Task1: Scan the text quickly, then answer some questionsQ1. Who are Wang kun and Wang Wei?Q2.What are their dreams?Q3.Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?Q4. Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why?Q5.What can you see when you travel along the Mekong River?Task2: Listen to the tape and pay attention to the pronunciation, then do the T or F exercise.1.Wang kun is a high school student. 2.Both Dao Wei and Yu Hang are Dai and they grew up in eastern Yunnan province 3.The source of Mekong is in Qinghai province .4.Finally Wang Kun agreed with his sister to cycle with her. 5.They found few atlas and books about Mekong River in library. 6. Mekong river begins at glacier on a Tibet mountain. the water there is clear but not cold. 7. Only a small part of the river is in China.8.As it enters Southeast Asia, it moves slowly.Task3: Careful readingRead the text again and try to complete a form.their dreamTheir journeyTheir preparationTask4: Consolidation Fill in the blanksMekong River begins _ a glacier on a Tibetan mountain. At first ,The river is small and the water begins to move_. It becomes _as it passes _ deep valleys. Traveling _western Yunnan Province. Sometimes The River _ wide Valley and becomes a_. We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China . After it leaves china and the high altitudes, the Mekong becomes _ , brown and warm. As it enters Southeast Asia, it travels slowly _hills and low valleys, and the _ where rice grows. at last the rivers delta enters the South China Sea.Step V Post-readingTask1: Make comparisonAn attitude is what a person thinks about something. Make lists of Wang Weis and Wang Kuns similar and different attitudes about the trip. Task2: DebateWhich character do you like,Wang Kun or Wang wei? Why?Task3: Understand two mottosLife is just a series of trying to make up your mind. Success belongs to the perseveringStep VI Homework1 Read the text again.2 Write a passage about their journey.单位：湖北省荆门姓名：李国E_mail：liguo619
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