5常市职教中心“Module 3 My First Ride on a Train”课件之3.pptVIP

My First Ride On a Train 五常市职教中心 于敏瑞 Talk about the questions listed below by working in pairs 1.Do you know how many people live there? 2. Do you know the name of the capital city? 3. Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast? 4. What do you think the central part of the country is like? 5. What Australian animals do you know about? Talk something about Australia Australia Check the meaning of these words. Please read the passage quickly and try to find out appropriate information to fill in the two forms below. My First Ride on a Train My name is Alice Thompson. I come from, Australia and I’m 18 years old. Recently I had a 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 four thousand kilometers away. We spend two days and nights on the train. Alice Thompson Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needes a way to travel to the middle of the country. They tried riding horse, but the horse didn’t like the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short for Afghanistan. Camels were much better than horse for travelling a long distance. For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products. The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. Then the government build a new railway line, so they didn’t need the camels any more. In 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day. Read the passage again carefully and answer the questions 1.Did Alice travel on the train along time ago ? 2.Was her destination on the coast of Australia? 3.Was the scenery the same during the whole journey? 4. Did she study while she was on