1) Where is the writer when she is writing the diary?
2) How do they have to travel? Why?
3) What do they eat for supper?
4) What can they hear at night?
3. Read Part Two carefully and answer the questions below.
1) What did they see when they flew over the forest?
2) How is the population of the country?
3) What do they do after they move to the forest?
4) Why do they plant crops for cows?
5) How often do they move on to another place?
6) What will happen to the soil when the soil is destroyed?
Answers:
Part One
1) On a rock.
2) By boat. Because there aren't any roads.
3) Chickens, eggs, buds or monkeys.
4) The strange sounds of wild birds and animals.
Part Two
1) Nothing but a great fire and lots of smoke.
2) It is growing every minute.
3) They burn the forest and plant crops.
4) To sell their beef at a high price in the capital.
5) Every two or three years.
6) It will become sand again.
Step Ⅳ Language points
Difficult sentences in the text
1) . . .they can eat a person in two minutes, leaving only bones. = they can eat a person very quickly and only the bones will be left.
2) . . . I was just about to go swimming when lucidly our guide saw me and shouted at me. . . = It was lucky for me that out guide was in time to stop me before I went into the river.
3) The population of the country is increasing every minute. = In every minute many babies are born, so the peculation is growing very fast in the country.
Step Ⅴ Workbook
1. Finish Ex. 2 on Page 73 as quickly as possible. Ask the Ss practise in pairs
2. As to Ex. 3 an Page 73,let the Ss do it by themselves.
Step Ⅵ Practice
T organize Ss in group to discuss the following the questions, then ask someone to answer individually
1) Why is the forest destroyed? 2) What should be done to protect the forest?
Answers:
1) People move to the forest and they bum the trees to plant crops for the cows to make a living.
2) Control the population, provide them jobs, make laws to protect the forest, and so on.
Step Ⅶ Homework
1. Ex. 2 and 3on Page 74
2.Try to retell the text in your own words.
探究活动
1.Discuss in groups
1) Why do you travel and what it brings you?
2) How yon plan for an imaginary travel and what you should prepare for a travel?
2.教师组织学生们根据自己旅游的经历，假设自己是一位导游，描述某一天的旅游过程。教师给学生们一些词语和提示如：
1)date and the place to visit 2)how many travelers, 3)how to get there, 4)other activities, 5)anything special, 6)what time you are back, so on.
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