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Unit 3 Travel journal Period One Warming up Pre-reading Step1. Warming up Brainstorming questions: Welcome back! How is your summer vacation? What did you do? (ask several students to answer the question) I guess some of you went travelling. Yes, more and more people enjoy traveling nowadays. So why do you think people like traveling? See other countries Enjoy a lot of beautiful scenery Make friends with foreigners Try new food Experience life in other parts of the world Get away from terrible weather Get first-hand information about a place Have a good relax (working all day and no play make Jack a dull boy) Seek adventure, get stimulation.激励, 鼓舞, 刺激, sensational experience Broaden one’s horizon Enlarge your knowledge Write travelogue 旅行见闻讲演 Enrich your life experience Get to know the tradition, customs, Have some exotic experience/ romance If you are going traveling, what kind of transport do you prefer to use? What do you have to consider before you decide what kind of transport you will use? (cost, safety, comfort, speed, convenience) Think about the advantages and disadvantages of each form of transport and talk with your partners and finish the chart on P17. Step2 Pre-reading Imagine you are going somewhere near a river. First let’s do a survey among you to see whether you have some common knowledge. Do you know where these world-famous rivers are located? ( let students do the match work on PPT) match answer Names of River Location Names of River Location Mekong India Mekong China，SE Asia Rhine France Rhine Germany Ganges Russia Ganges India Seine England Seine France Nile Central Africa Nile Egypt Thames Germany Thames England Congo Brazil Congo Central Africa Niger China, SE Asia Niger West Africa Volga US Volga Russia Danube Egypt Danube Central Europe Amazon West Africa Amazon Brazil Mississippi Central Europe Mississippi US What role does a river play in people’s life? In other words, how do people make use of