Unit 4 Journey Across a Vast Land Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 4 Journey across a vast land Reading and Thinking 1. Do you like to take a trip via rail? Why or why not? rail journeys Lead-in Let’s follow them to begin the trip... Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went to Canada to visit their cousins in Halifax on the Atlantic coast. Rather than travel by commercial airline all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train. For both of them, the thought of crossing the whole country by rail was exciting. What information can you get from the title and the first paragraph? Characters: The route: Transportation: Purpose: Destination: Feeling: Starting point: discourse markers Fast-reading 1．What’s the genre(体裁) of this passage? A. A travel brochure B. A Travel journal C. Novel D. A news report 2．Let’s draw a mind map to show their cross-country trip, including time , place, transportation, activities and feelings. √ Let’s follow the discourse markers and find out the places they have been. If you are to find “places”, what kind of words should you pay attention to? Capitalized words. Before starting out, they spent a couple of days in Vancouver, seeing the sights. During their first day, as is typical of Vancouver, it rained. Despite the weather, they were able to take a boat ride out into the bay, and later visit an island that had wonderful shops selling crafts and antiques. The next day was clear and mild, and they were pleased to see the beautiful mountains looking out over the city. Later, they took a pleasant hike in a forest just a short distance away. Paragraph 2 While-reading Draw a mind map to show their cross-country trip, including places, transportation, activities and feelings. vacounver Take a boat ride out into the bay Visit an island See mountains Take a pleasant hike While-reading a mind map on their cross-country trip vacounver take a boat ride visit an island see mountains take a pleasant hike Lake Louise pass through the Canadian Rockies mass