幻灯片 1My First Ride On a Train ---- 幻灯片 2Get on/off ---- 幻灯片 3Get into Get out of ---- 幻灯片 4Talk about the questions listed below by working in pairs 1.Do you know how many people live there? 2. Do you know the name of the capital city? 3. Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast? 4. What do you think the central part of the country is like? 5. What Australian animals do you know about? About 20 million Canberrazx xk On the east/southeast coast Desert Koala bear,duck-billed platypus, kangaroo ---- 幻灯片 5Talk something about Australia Zx xk ---- 幻灯片 6---- 幻灯片 7---- 幻灯片 8 ---- 幻灯片 9---- 幻灯片 10Australia Australia Sydney (奥运会） kangaroo 地大、人少(20 million) Canberra (堪培拉)首都 Variable climate ? ? ---- 幻灯片 11Check the meaning of these words. abandoned camels cassettezx xk desert diamonds distance expert famous government fields ---- 幻灯片 12meal midnight passengers recently scenery shine shoot soil supply products ---- 幻灯片 13Please read the passage quickly and try to find out appropriate information to fill in the two forms below. Alice and a friend 18 years old Sydney A ride travel On a train Very colorful; fields; dark soil Desert; sunshine; no wind and no clouds A place from another time; abandoned farms ---- 幻灯片 14My First Ride on a Train My name is Alice Thompson. I come from, Australia and I’m 18 years old. Recently I had a ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometers away. We spend two days and nights on the train. ---- 幻灯片 15Alice Thompson Sydney Alice Springs 2 days and nights ---- 幻灯片 16The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by experts! For the first few hundred kilometers of the journey, the scenery was very colorful. There were fields and the soil was dark red. After that ,it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandoned farms which were build more than a hundred years ago. zx xk ---- 幻灯片 17field food (Expert) soil wonderful desert Sun farms ---- 幻灯片 18The train was comfortable and the people were nice. During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers. I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes ( I’m studying Chinese at school). One night, at about midnight , I watched the night sky for about an hour. The star shone like diamonds. ---- 幻灯片 19During the day At night talking reading watching stars ---- 幻灯片 20Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needes a way to travel to the middle of the country. They tried riding horse, but the horse didn’t like the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short for Afghanistan. ---- 幻灯片 21Afghanistan ---- 幻灯片 22Camels were much better than horse for travelling a long distance. For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products. ---- 幻灯片 23Food … Wool ….. ---- 幻灯片 24The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. Then the government build a new railway line, so they didn’t need the camels any more. In 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day. ---- 幻灯片 25The 1920s ---- 幻灯片 26Read the passage again carefully and answer the questions 1.Did Alice travel on the train along 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? zx xk 5.Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country. 6.Do they still use camels to deliver good? No, she traveled on the train recently. No, it was Alice Springs in the center of Australia. No, at first there were fields, then it was desert. Yes, she studied Chinese . Yes, at first , but the horse didn’t like the hot weather. No, they use the train now. ---- 幻灯片 27Retell the passage Alice Thompson Sydney Alice Springs 2 days and nights ---- 幻灯片 28field food (Expert) soil wonderful desert Sun farms ---- 幻灯片 29During the day At night talking reading watching stars ---- 幻灯片 30Afghanistan ---- 幻灯片 31Food … Wool ….. ---- 幻灯片 32The 1920s ---- 幻灯片 33Homework 1.Finishi workbook vocabulary Ex4 and6 2.Recall your first journey or interesting journey. ----
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