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WELCOME!. My First Ride on a “ “. train. Nouns: camels, cassette, clouds, farms, fields, sand, soil, desert, diamonds, food, meal, midnight, scenery, weather, distance, experts, passengers, products, supply, law, government, Verbs: shine, shoot
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My First Ride on a “ “ train
Nouns: camels, cassette, clouds, farms, fields, sand, soil, desert, diamonds, food, meal, midnight, scenery, weather, distance, experts, passengers, products, supply, law, government, • Verbs: shine, shoot • Adjectives: abandoned, colourful, famous, recently
Now match some of the words with these definitions. • an area of land where it is always dry • ______ • 2. valuable stones _______ • 3. people who travel on a train, bus or plane _________ • 4. you find this on beaches ____ • 5. white or grey things made of water in the sky _____ • 6. where plants grow ______________ desert diamonds passengers sand clouds Soil，farms, fields
Do you have any experiences of riding on a train?
When you were riding on a train, • what kind of weather would you prefer? • were there any great meals cooked by experts? • which would you prefer, listening to any cassettes, enjoying the colourful scenery, talking with other passengers or watching the night sky with the stars shining like diamonds? • Have you ever seen any places like abandoned farms, desert, fields with dark red soil and etc.? • Have you ever seen any animals, such as camels, sheep and ect.?
( Paragraph 1, Line 3 ) • Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago? • Was her destination on the coast of Australia? • Was the scenery the same during the whole journey? • Did she study while she was on the train? • Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country? • Do they still use camels to deliver goods? ( Paragraph 1, Line 7 ) ( Paragraph 2, Line 3 ) ( Paragraph 3, Line 4 ) ( Paragraph 4 , Line 6 ) ( Paragraph 6, Line 1)
Summary of the 1st paragraph: Alice Thompson, 18 years old, Sydney, first ride on a long-distance train, Ghan train, friend, got on, Sydney, got off, Alice Springs, two days and nights
Summary of the 2nd paragraph: train, wonderful, food, meals cooked by experts, great, scenery, corlourful, desert, fields, dark red, soil, sun, shone, wind, clouds, abandoned farms
Summary of the 3rd paragraph: train, comfortable, people, nice, looked out of the window, talked to other passengers, read books, listened to cassettes, at midnight, watch, sky, stars, shone, like diamonds
Summary of the last 3 paragraphs: why is the train called the Ghan? Travel, middle of the country, horses, hot weather and sand, camels from Afghanistan, a long distance, trained camels, carried, food, other supplies, wool and other products, 1920s, the government, a new railway line, law, shoot animals, 1935, police, 153 camels, in one day
Homework: • Do the Ex 7,8,9 of Reading on page 81. • This reading named An Unusual Journey is similar to the Reading of module 3.
