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Module3 My First Ride on a Train Pre-reading 1、Background knowledge of Australia .According to these pictures，ask the students to answer some questions： ⑴ Do you know how many people live there? ⑵ Do you know the name of the capital city? ⑶ Where do you think most of people live，in the central part of the country or on the coast? ⑷ What do you think the central part of the country is like? ⑸ What Australian animals do you know about? Vocabulary First，ask the students to read some new words, pay attention to their pronunciation. Second，match some of the words with these definitions. Abandoned camels cassette clouds colourful desert diamonds distance experts famous farms fields food government law meal midnight passengers products recently sand scenery shine shoot soil supply weather ⑴ An area of land where it is always dry ⑵ Valuable stones ⑶ People who travel on a train，bus or plane ⑷ You find this on beaches ⑸ White or grey things made of water in the sky ⑹ Where plants grow My First Ride on a Train My name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney, Australia and Im 18 years old. Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than fourthousand kilometres away. We spent two days and nights on the train. The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by experts! For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. There were fields and the soil was dark red. After that, it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago. The train was comfortable and the people were nice. During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked