1、Module 3 My First Ride on a Train,Reading and Vocabulary,Teaching Aims:1. To know something about Australia. 2. To get the main idea of the passage and improve the ability to read. 3. To master some key words, phrases and sentences in the text.,Western Australia,Northern Territory,South Australia,Ne
2、w South Wales,Queensland,Victoria,What is it famous for?,What do you know about Australia？,Capital city- Canberra,Sydney,Kangaroos-large animals jump about on two legs carrying their young in a stomach pocket,Koala -bears climbing trees,Read and choose the main idea of this passage.,a child visiting
3、 her grandmother,a train ride to Sydney,taking the train to Australia,traveling to the central part of Australia,Fast Reading:,How many parts can we divide the passage into? What is each about?,Paragraph 1,Paragraphs 2-3,Paragraphs 4-6,When and where their travel took place.,The scenery of all the j
4、ourney.,The origin of the Ghan train and the means of transport for traveling a long distance in the past.,Read the last part and put them in the right order.,Camels were trained to carry supplies back from the central part. Camels were shot because of the new railway line built by the government. T
5、hey brought camels from Afghanistan. Australians needed a way to the central country. They tried riding horses, but failed.,4,5,3,1,2,Detailed Reading:,Read the whole text again and answer the following questions:,1. Who did Alice travel with? 2. Was the scenery the same during the whole journey? 3.
6、 What did she do during the day on the train? 4. Why were camels used instead of horses for traveling a long distance?,Language Points:,1. We ate great meals cooked by experts. 2. We saw abandoned farms which were built a hundred years ago. 3. For many years, trained camels carried food and other su
7、pplies, and returned with wool and other products.,Post-reading,Recently I had my first ride on a longdistance train.The train was wonderful and we ate great meals cooked by1._！For the first few hundred kilometers of the 2._, the 3._ was very colorful.We first saw fields with dark red 4._. After tha
8、t, it was 5._ and then 6._ farms which was built over a century ago. On the train I sometimes talked to other 7._.Our train is called the Ghan, why? I know in order to get to the middle of the country, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short 8._ Afghanistan. For many years, 9._ came
9、ls carried food and other supplies，and returned with wool and other 10._.,experts,journey,scenery,soil,desert,abandoned,passengers,for,trained,products,Homework,Write a short passage about a trip you made to some place. You had better cover the following points: 1. how to get there 2. what you can do there 3. what you like about it 4. things that happened to you when you were there,Bye-bye!,
