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授课人:新建三中Cathy
Unit 4 Journey Across A Vast Land
Reading and Thinking
In this lesson, you are supposed to:
draw the two girls’ journey route;
use discourse markers to express logic and meaning;
tell the benefits of taking a rail journey and analyze the benefits of a train trip。
analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of transportation.
How do you understand this motto?
It means you may get to know yourself better after a long enough distance journey or after a long enough life journey.
Unit4 Journy Across A Vast Land
An extremely large area of ground;
Where does the phrase ‘vast land’ refer to?
Canada
Do you know anything about Canada?
What do you expect to see when going on a journey across Canada?
Seeing The True North Via Rail: Vancouver And The heart of Canada
Look at the title and predict what the text is about.
Canada
By train
It is about _________________ of two girls
via rail; and it tells us some amazing sights about_______.
a journey/ trip
Canada
A city in Canada
???
Other cities in Canada
Liu Qian & Li Daiyu
Pre-reading
While-reading
Divide the passage into three parts .
Read the passage and match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para.1 A.The two girls were amazed by the vast lands of
Canada.
Para.2 B.The two girls’ stay in Vancouver.
Para.3 C.Li Daiyu and her cousin were on a trip to Canada.
Para.4 D.The two girls’ visit to Lake Louise and Jasper.
Para.5 E.The two girls reached their destination.
Para.6 F.A short introduction to Edmonton.
While-reading
1. Read paragraph 1 and fill in the blanks.
who
why
where
How
mood __________
________ and her cousin________
To________________
They _______ to Vancouver and then took ______
In Halifax on ________________
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