Module 3 Reading My First Ride on a Train
Teaching procedures
I Warming Up(5ms)
T: After such a long National Holiday, all of us had a good break. Did you enjoy yourself on holiday, e.g. go out for traveling? I’m sure some of you had experiences of traveling a long distance. Anybody wanna share with us the first time you traveled a long distance? Here I have tips for you. Tips:I first travelled a long distance by ___ when I was ______. I went with _________ from _______ to _______.
(How did you travel a long distance? How old were you? Where did you go and who did you go with? What do you think of it?)
Q：When talking about experience, what factors should you pay attention to?
Who , when, where, what, why & how
II Pre-reading（5Ms）
T: We all know plane may be the most convenient transportation in the world, but I think traveling on a train can show you more fantastic scenery than on plane. Where do you want to go most if you are now on a train?
T: if let me choose, I want to go to this country for traveling by train. And there is another girl who also traveled on a train in Australia. Let’s share her fantastic experience. Please turn to page 23.
III Reading
1. Fast reading(5-8ms)
T: Do you still remember what the title of the text we learnt in Module1 is? That’s a school diary, right? And what’s the title of this text? Can you predict what kind of article it is?
T: Now please read the passage quickly and find out what the passage is about. At the same time, think about “How many parts can we divide the passage into?”
2. Detailed Reading(10-15ms)
T：Let’s come to the first part. Please read the first paragraph and choose the best answer.
Alice had her first ride on a train from_B____with _______.
A. Sydney; her parents
B. Sydney;her friend
C. Alice Springs;her parents
D. Alice Springs;her friend
T: Well done! Since this paragraph is quite simple, we’ll not talk talk to much about it. Come the second part.
Please read Paragraph 2,3 and decide the statements are true or false.
 1.The train was wonderful, but the food they ate was cooked by themselves. F Experts
 2.The scenery of the first few hundred kilometers of the journey was desert. F Colorful
 3.They saw abandoned farms built over 100 years ago.T
 4.Alice talked to other passengers, read books, listened to music and so on.F Chinese cassettes
T: You have done a good job! Let’s come to the last part. It’s about the history background. Please read the last three paragraphs and fill in the blank.
Why is the train called the Ghan? It is short for _ Afghanistan_. The Afghans trained the _camels__to carry food and supplies. They did this until _the 1920s__, when the __government__ built a new railway line.
IV Summary
T: today we learn many new words and phrases. We also talk about Australia and how to describe the experiences of the first ride on a train.
V Homework
Read the text aloud and review the important language points.