文档介绍：Module 3
My First Ride On a Train
澳大利亚联邦(monwealth of Australia)
by air
by sea
the national flag
Sydney Opera House
beach
a child visiting her grandmother
What is the passage about?
a train ride to Sydney
taking the train to Australia
traveling to the central part of Australia
My First Ride on a Train
Read the passage quickly and silently, judge T or F and correct the error:
1. Alice got on in Alice Springs,and got off in Sydney.( )
2. The scenery of the whole journey is very colorful. ( )
3. On the train,Alice still studied. ( )
4. They used camels instead of horses because horses are
not good at traveling a long distance. ( )
government built a new railway line in 1925.( )
F
F
T
T
F
Summarize the general idea of each paragraph.
Para 1.
Para 2.
Para 3.
Para 4.
Para 5.
Para 6.
Information about the writer and her train ride.
What the writer saw on the train.
What the writer did on the train
Why is the train called the Ghan?
The use of camels.
What happened to the camels.
Read the passage again carefully and fill in the gap
Alice Thompson made her first long-distance train ride at the age of _____. She got on in _______ and got off in Alice Springs. They ate meals cooked by _______. They saw fields, soil, desert and _____________ farms which were built over 100 years ago. On the train, Alice talked to other ___________ and studied Chinese. She watched the night sky and found stars, which shone like__________.
Why is the train called the Ghan? It is short for _____________. The Afghans trained the ________ to carry food and supplies. They did this until _________, when the ____________ built a new railway line.
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Sydney
experts
abandoned
passengers
diamonds
Afghanistan
camels
the 1920s
government