Unit 3 Travel Journey
Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Step 1 Homework checking
1. p20, ex2 (check one by one),ex 3 (read the passage sentence by sentence individually one by one
2. Retelling, get 2-3 Ss to retell
Step 2 Language points
1. Ss give the phrases and expressions according to the Chinese T gives
2. Ss raise Qs on some difficult points they found while reading the text
Warming up: 1. one-way fare / single-way fare (单程票价), round-way fare (往返/双程票价)
2. different kinds of transport (Br.E) / transportation(Am.E)
Reading text:
3. journey down the Mekong 湄公河之旅
有 “沿着”之意,相当于 “along”,
1) 由北向南,由西向东用down, 反之用up;
2) 由城镇向农村时用down, 反之用up;
实 用 文 档 1
3) 依门牌号码,由大数字向小数字行进时,应用down ,反之用up;
4) 由上而下,如:沿着山坡而下,沿着江河顺流而下,从楼上到楼下由住宅
街上,应用down, 反之用up
Para.1: 4. dream of / about doing 梦想,梦见(后接名词,代词,动名词)
e.g. What a small world! I wouldn’t dream of meeting you here.
The young soldier sometimes dreams of his hometown.
dream n. have/dream a dream, realize a dream
5. take a bike trip *
6. get a chance to do *
7. finally, adv. 最后,终于final adj. 最后的,n (常用复数)决赛,期末考试
e.g. We waited and waited, and the train finally arrived.
What is the final score of the table tennis single for men?
How are you prepared for your finals?
8. cycle along *
9. go for bike rides *
10. in the countryside *
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11. persuade sb (not) to do, 说服某人(不)做…
persuade sb that + clause 使某人相信
Then she persuaded me to buy one.=Then she succeeded in asking me to buy one.
e.g. The salesman persuaded us to buy his product.
He tried to persuade me that he was honest.
persuade sb to do sth 指成功地说服,
“说而不服, 或说而无果”应用 advise sb to do sth / try to persuade
sb to do
12. at the college/ university *
13. get / make sb interested in = interest sb, show interest in sth/ sb
get+ n./pron.+adj.=make + n./pron.+adj.
e.g. They didn’t get home after school as usual, which got/ made mother worried.
Para.2: 14. Although she didn’t know the best way of… although “虽然,但是”,引导让步状语从句,不与but连用
though一般可与although互用,引导的让步状语从句有时用倒装语序.
作副词时, “然而,可是”,通常放于句尾,并用逗号与句子隔开
实 用 文 档 3
e.g. Young though he is, he is very rich.
He said he would come; he didn’t, though.
15. a way of doing/ to do *
e.g. She didn’t know the best way of getting to places.= She didn’t know the best way to get to places.
16. insist (若insist后面宾语从句的主语与主句的主语不一致,谓语由加动词原形构成,
其中should可省略)
insist that sb (should)do 坚持认为,坚持说
insist on/upon sth/ doing 坚持做,坚决做
e.g. We insisted that father (should) give up smoking.
She insisted on/upon going to Beijing by air.
17. care about, care for, care to do
care about关心,忧虑 care for喜欢,照顾 care to do愿意/同意做某事
e.g. I don’t care (about) what happens to him.
Would you care for a drink?
Would you care to go for a walk?
实 用 文 档 4