The fifth period: Listening and writing

Aim:

Grasp the main idea of the passage and get to know what the author saw and heard

To write a letter

Procedures

Step 1 Listening

Let’s go on with Journey Down The Mekong River (part 3) with Wang Wei. Turn to page 23 and do the listening text. Before listening to the tape, please read the words fast, then tick the words you hear on the tape. After that I’ll play the tape for the second time and then finish the chart. You should look through the chart and find out the listening points. The following questions can help you understand the listening text.

Where is the girl from?

What do people in Laos use the river for?

Why do people in Laos call the river “the sea of Laos”?

What is the river called in Tibet and Vietnam?

What other beautiful sights along the Mekong River in Laos?

Step 2 Guided writing

1. Reading and underlining

In this unit, we have read the first two parts of a travel journal and have listened to the third part of the travel journal. What is the difference between a journal and a diary? Let’ read the passage on page 23 and find out the difference between the two. Underline all the useful expressions and collocations in it. Copy them in your notebook after class as homework.

Collocations from Reading and Writing

put one’s thoughts into a diary, travel journey, the difference between, for on thing… for another, record one’s experiences, soon after, be familiar to, make a list of, compare…with, agree to.

Read the passage quickly and then fill in the information on the chart.

A diary A travel journal