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1、 Do you like traveling? Do you want to visit these picturesque places?Why do you want to visit these places? Here are some beautiful places. Can you name these places? What do you know about them? Which of these places would you like to visit most? Some questions about yourself Have you ever been to

2、 some places? What is the most exciting place you have ever been to? Try to describe the place for us.Pair workBob just come back from Sydney, and now Susan is asking Bob about his trip. Work in pairs and try to use the following expressions. Act out your dialogue.Discussion - Talk about travelingBo

3、b likes traveling, but Jean thinks it too costly and she has a good idea about how to travel without paying too much.Homework Find more information about places in the world and traveling. Preview the reading text.Good staying with you!Thank you for your cooperation!AfricaAustralia what makes Austra

4、lia different than any country you have seen before? Whatever your travel interests , you should be able to find it in the Land Down Under. Sydney, with its familiar silhouette(减影）减影） of the Opera House and its sparkling（闪闪发光）（闪闪发光）, world-famous Harbor and the city of Melbourne, with its quaint（古典的

5、）（古典的） urban villages and Victorian architecture, are cutting edge, chic （流行的）（流行的）cosmopolitan （由来（由来自世界各地人组成的）自世界各地人组成的）cities with very distinct identities. Cultural events, shopping, world-famous cuisine and night-life pastimes are in abundance and the nearly perfect beaches will not disappoint.

6、 Home to 14 World Heritage sites, it is no surprise that Australias most famous attraction is its natural beauty in a variety of landscapes. So pick a region and travel at your leisure. You will find more than 7,000 beaches, over 2,000 national parks and nature reserves, tropical rainforests, rugged

7、 mountains, coral reefs, expansive tracts of desert, a wealth of unique plant and wildlife, and the worlds oldest surviving civilization. Its all here. Australia has something wonderful waiting for you! DesertThis small oasis on the northern edge of the Gobi desert provides food and drinking water f

8、or herders and their livestock（家畜）（家畜）. The forest in the background is characteristic of the Gobi This is one of the few areas of sand dune（沙丘）（沙丘） formations. Up to 200m tall and many km long, the Khongoryn Els （干（干葛恩）葛恩） are a popular tourist destination.Ekhiingol is a small, isolated oasis in th

9、e Southern Gobi, surrounded by barren（贫瘠的）desert. In communist times this used to be an important agricultural research station, but now only about 20 families remain. Here grow tomatoes, cucumber, watermelon, peppers and some fruit, which are sold locally. Getting the produce to other markets is ne

10、arly impossible, as there are no flights, and the provincial capital is 400 km away along a rough dirt track. The Gobi desert, one of the worlds great deserts, covers much of the southern part of Mongolia. It is a vast zone of desert and desert steppe（干草原）（干草原） covering almost 30 percent of the coun

11、try. Unlike the Sahara there are few sand dunes in the Gobi; rather youll find large barren expenses of gravel（碎石）（碎石） plains and rocky outcrops（露出地面的岩石层）（露出地面的岩石层）. The area is often imagined as a lifeless desert, as in many other parts of the world. In reality, most of the Gobi Desert is a land of

12、 steppes and it is the home for camel breeders（饲养员）（饲养员） rich with wildlife and vegetation（植物；草（植物；草木）木）. Mongolians consider that there are 33 different Gobi, where sandy desert occupies only 3 percent of the total territory. The climate is extreme with 40 degrees in summer and severe winters. Prec

13、ipitation averages less than 100 mm per year, while some areas only get rain once every two or three years. Strong winds up to 140 km/h make travel dangerous in spring and fall. Great Gobi National Park is one of the largest World Biospheres（生物圈）（生物圈）, with an area larger than Switzerland. It contai

14、ns the last remaining wild Bacterian (two-humped) camels, wild ass, and a small population of Gobi bears, the only desert-inhabiting bear.The Mongolian two-humped Bactrian camel, nicknamed among the local people as the Gobi Ship, inhabits the Gobi Desert area. It has become a tradition in Mongolia t

15、o organise a Camel Festival and Camel Polo competition every year. It is possible to a camel riding trips. It was here, in 1923, that Roy Chapman Andrews and his expedition team from the American Museum of Natural History discovered the first nest of dinosaur eggs the world had ever seen. Paleontolo

16、gists （古生物学（古生物学 ）from all over the world continue to uncover fossils at this rich site. BrazilBrazil is a massive country situated on the equator in South America, with much of the land surface covered in tropical rainforests. The rainforest is breading ground thousands of varied species of fauna a

17、nd flora, and has some of the most attractive wooded landscape in the world.The rainforest of Brazil is also home to the largest rives in the world, The Amazon. The Amazon has 1500 types of fish and is also home to crocodiles, freshwater dolphins and turtles. The area around the Amazon is known as t

18、he Amazon Basin.The Amazon basin is a massive jungle with extreme growth, due to its exceptionally warm weather and heavy tropical rain. Home to some of the worlds most colourful wildlife the Amazon basin has 75,000 different types of trees that grow extremely high creating an excellent canopy that

19、supports a vast population of monkeys, bats, all types of birds, tree frogs as well as providing cover for many different plants. The Amazon region is home to over 2.5 million different insects and over 40,000 different plants.There are many different ways of exploring the region and seeing the jungle. One of the greatest ways to see the jungle without disturbing the natural habitat is to take a cruise along the Amazon and its many small rivers.To get real close to nature and to experience the way of life that many Brazilian tribal people live, trekking through th