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Module3. My First Ride on a Train (Reading & vocabulary) Ⅰ、Teaching goals: 1. Ability goals: 1) grasp the main idea of this passage 2) be able to retell this passage 2. Target language: Key words &phrases abandoned, desert, colorful, farm, field, seaside, soil, diamond, midnight, scenery, shoot, journey, get out of, be short for, refer to Useful sentence pattern ● … we got on in… and we got off in…, right in the middle of Australia… ● We saw abandoned farms which were… ● During the day, I sat and looked out of…, and sometimes talked to… Ⅱ、teaching steps 1. Revision 1. Do you know how many people live in Australia? 2. Do you know the name of the capital city of Australia? 3. Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast? 4. What Australian animals do you know about? 2. Lead-in As we know, almost everyone likes travelling. Today we are going to learn a lesson about a girl named Alice, her travel experience on a train in Australia. 3. Self-learning 1).Find out what is this passage talking about? 2).Read the passage again carefully and answer the questions. 1. Did Alice travel on the train a long 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 the train? 5. Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country? 6. Do they still use camels to deliver goods? 4. Intensive reading  1).Read the passage and tell whether the following sentences true or false. 1. Alice had her first ride on the famous Ghan train with her parents. 2. Alice Springs lies in the middle of Australia. 3. Dark red soil was seen for the last few hundred kilometers of the journey. 4. Alice experienced completely different scenery during the journey. 5. Camels carried food and other supplies to Afghanistan. 6. After 1925, people could shoot the camels for their meat. 2) Read and complete the following chart.                      Distance Food It was over 4,000 km. Alice spent 2 days and nights on the Ghan. The meals 1. ________________ were great. Scenery Activities It  was 2. ________for the first few hundred kilometer sand after that it was 3. _______. The 4. __________ farms were also seen. Alice talked to5. _______________, read books, listened to 6. ______________,watched the night sky during  the journey. Origin of its name Before the 1920s Australian 7. ___________  horses to travel to the middle of the country. Because of the hot weather and sand, they bought 8. _______ from Afghanistan. Ghan 9. __________ Afghanistan. After the 1920s The government built 10. ________________.  The train replaced the camels from Afghanistan and was called Ghan. 5. Please fill in the blanks without looking at your book. Alice, an __________ girl, ___________ Sydney, Australia. Recently, together with ___________ she had her first ____ on a ____________ train. They spent ________________________ on the famous Ghan train. The meals ______ by experts were great and the _______ was very ________.They first saw fields ____ dark red soil, and then the _____. There were even some ________ farms ____ more than a hundred years ago. During the day, she ___ by the window, ____________ it, reading books or _______ to some cassettes. _______, she watched the stars ______ like diamonds. The reason _____ the train is called the Ghan is that ______ camels from Afghanistan were once used to carry _____and ___________ . ___________________, a new ________ was built and _______were not needed any more. Ⅲ、Homework 1. Summary the main phrases and words in the passage and remember them. 2. Find the sentences which contain the –ed form in the passage. 文档已经阅读完毕，请返回上一页！