Reading My First Ride on a Train

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Reading My First Ride on a Train
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Can you name the following transportation?
Introduction
motorbike
bicycle
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train
taxi
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plane
ferry
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bus
helicopter
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tram
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Match the verbs with the pictures.
get on/off get into/out of drive take
off/land ride
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Which transportation did you take when you first
traveled? When and where did you go for your
first trip?
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Pre-reading
Koala bear
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Kangaroo
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desert
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1. How many people live in Australia?
About 20 million.
2. Whats the name of the capital?
Canberra.
3. Where do most of the people live, in the
central part of the country or on the coast?
On the east/southeast coast.
4. Whats the central part of the country like?
Desert.
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5. What do you know about Australian animals?
Koala bear, possum, duck-billed platypus(???),
kangaroo, echidna and dingo(???). Some of these
animals are marsupials, that is the mother keeps
the baby in a pouch on her stomach.
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Reading
Whats the passage about? A. a train to Sydney B.
taking the train to Australia C. traveling to the
central part of Australia D. a child
visiting her grandmother
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1. Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago?
No, she traveled on the train recently. 2.
Was her destination on the coast of Australia?
No, it was Alice Springs in the center of
Australia.
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3. Was the scenery the same during the whole
journey? No, at first there were fields,
then it was desert. 4. Did she study while she
was on the train? Yes, she studied Chinese.
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5. Did the Australians use horses to travel to
the central part of the country? Yes, at
first, but the horses didnt like the hot
weather. 6. Do they still use camels to deliver
goods? No, they use the train now.
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Summary
Give a summary about Alices first ride using the
questions and answers as a guide.
Recently Alice first traveled on a train to
Alice Spring, in the center of Australia. The
scenery of the whole journey was colorful. At
first there were fields, then it was desert.
While she was on the train, she studied Chinese.
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• A long time ago, Australians tried
• using horses to travel to the central
• part of the country. But later they
• used camels. Now they use the train
• called Ghan to travel.

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Discussion

• What sort people do you think people travel on
  the Ghan train?
• 2. What kind of towns and villages do you think
  the train passed?

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Language points

• match vt. ???(?)???,?????? ?
• Her clothes dont match her age.
  ????????????
• We should always match words with
  deeds.?????????
• No one can match him in singing.
  ?????????????

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2. refer to sb.(sth) ??/?????/?? refer to a
diary???? refer to a dictionary??? refer
to(turn to) an expert????

If you have any question, please refer to
chapter II.
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3. Recently I had my first ride on a long
distance train. And what a ride!
ride n. ???????? give sb. a ride ????? What a
ride!????????????! ride vt.?(????) ? ride a
bicycle ride a horse ride a motorbike
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4. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice
Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more
than four thousand kilometers away.
got on? (?\??) get off?(?\??) ??, ????get into??
??, get out of ?????
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more than ?????,??? no more than
??,?????? not more than ??,?????morethan
?????? much more than ???
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Exercises
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He is more brave than wise.?????? (????)
English Weekly is more than a newspaper, it
helps us improve our English.
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Tom is no richer than me.
?????????? They were more than glad to help.
???????? The cold is more than I can bear.
????????? Bamboo is used for much more than
building.
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5. We ate great meals cooked by experts! cooked
by experts??????????,??meals?
expert n.?? adj. ???,??? an expert at/in/on
(doing) sth.?????????? be expert at/in (doing)
sth.??????/?? ?
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My father was an expert at repairing
clocks. ???????????????????
My father was expert at repairing clocks.
The sun shone, there was no wind and there were
no clouds in the sky.
????,?????? The stars shone like diamond.
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shoneshine??? vi. ??,??/? vt.???/? shine vt.
??(?????????shined)
e.g. The star shone red on his cap.
??????????? Her eyes shone with
excitement. ????????

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I had my shoes shined yesterday.
?????????? Please shine your flashlight over
here??????????
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7. We saw abandoned farms which were built more
than a hundred years ago.
which?????? ?????farms. abandoned adj.
???? abandoned farms?????? an abandoned baby??
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abandon vt. ???? abandon ones
country/friends????/?? abandon ones
post???? abandon ones wife????
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They tried riding horses, but the horses
didnt like the hot weather and sand.
8. try to do, try doing, manage to do
??????????
He tried to escape from being punished by the
teacher, but failed.

??/????,???????
They managed to finish the work before it got
dark.

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1. If this way doesnt work, why not try _____
(taking, to take) another one? 2. He ______ (
try to, manage to) apologize to her, but she
didnt accept. 3. He __________ ( try to, manage
to) persuade him not to be angry with her. Now
they are best friends.
taking
tried to
managed to
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Ghan is short for Afghanistan.
(????)
9. be short for, be short of, in short
In short, we must be prepared. (??,???)

WTO is short for the World Trade Organization.
(????)
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She made sure that her son was never short of
anything. (??,??)
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10. In 1925, they passed a law which allowed
people to shoot the animals if they were a
problem. pass a law???? which???????????law allow
sb. to do sth.??????? allow doing sth.?????
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They dont allow________ (to smoke, smoking) in
the office.
smoking
Smoking arent allowed in the office.
Her father dont allow her ____ (going, to go)
out alone at night.
to go
She is not allowed to go out alone at night.
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Exercises
1. The professor _____ at the meeting will give
us a lecture next week. A.
referred B. referred to C.
referring D. referring to 2. He
______ his wife and went abroad with all their
money. A. abandoned
B. threw C. separated
D. turned
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3. He is ___ a friend to me. He is in a way my
English teacher.
A. no more than B. more than
C. not more than D. nothing
but 4. Im rather ___ money at the moment, so
Im going to the BK tomorrow. BK here is ___the
Bank. A. short for short of B. short for
short for C. short of short of D. short
of short for
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5. All the rooms are __ with electric light. A.
supplied B. given
C. offered D. burnt 6. I
usually go there by train. Why not _____
by boat for a change? A. to try going
B. trying to go C. to try and go D.
try going
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7. There is __ bread in the cupboard, __ ? A. no
more is there
B. no longer is there
C. not any more isnt there
D. not any longer isnt there 8. Rather
than __ on a crowded bus, he always prefer __ a
bicycle. A. ride ride
B. riding ride C. ride to
ride D. to ride riding
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9. The ship happened to sink with its passengers
on board 20 miles off the ____ island. A.
abandoning B. abandoned C.
deserting D. left
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10. Oh, John. ______ you gave me! A. How a
pleasant surprise B. How pleasant
surprise C. What a pleasant surprise
D. What pleasant surprise
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Thank you