Travel journal--period5 Workbook.ppt

* Unit 3 1 Discuss what do you know about Laos and go over the exercises below before listening. □ Laos □ Tibet □ Vientiane □ Vietnam □ plains □ border □ village □ candles □ lights □ truck □ ducks □ chickens 2. Listen and tick the words you hear on the tape. 3. Listen again and answer these questions in pairs. Which border of Laos is made by the Mekong River? Most of its western border is made by the Mekong River. 2. What did Wang Kun and his sister see when they cycled across the plains? As they cycled across the plains where rice grew, they saw many low mountains covered in trees. 3. Which is the best season to travel to Laos? Why? Autumn was the best season to travel to Laos. Because it was cool and dry at that time so there was no need to worry about floods along the river. 4. What did the river sound like? 5. How did they go to Vientiane after lunch? We met Dao Wei and Yu Hang in Dali. They were glad to join us for the second week of our journey down the great river. Before we set out, we went to a small outdoor cafe and told them about what we had seen in Tibet. Listening Text Along the way, children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us. I told them how it was so cold in the late evening that the water in our bottles froze. The lakes shone like glass in the moonlight. Few trees could be seen. I said we were so high in the mountains that we cycled through clouds. In the valleys, colorful butterflies flew around us. We saw many yaks and sheep eating green grass. That night we were too tired to make camp, so we slept in an inn for truck drivers. They told us many wonderful stories about life in this part of China. The next day we went across the border into Laos. Most of its western border is made by the Mekong River. Laos, we learned, has the smallest number of people of any country in Southeast Asia. Much of the world knows little about it. As we cycled across the plains where rice grew