*What do you think you can see in a theme park?

Free-fall rides

A theme park

Bungee jumping

Roller coaster

Castles

Ethnic costumes

Bush-President of the USA

Cartoon

Cartoon Mickey Mouse

Cartoon

Cartoon

Cartoon

Marine life

Marine life

Marine life

* What do you think about bungee jumping and other adventure sports?

Thrilling?

** Does your town or city have an amusement park? What can you do there?

* Do you like scary rides?

Skimming

*Read the text quickly and find out the main idea of each

paragraph

*Read the text quickly and find out the main idea (or topic sentence) of each paragraph:

Theme parks often want to teach visitors something as well as providing fun.

Theme parks try to make sure that visitors leave knowing more about their theme .

Introduction to two famous theme parks in America.

Theme parks are becoming more and more popular around the world.

Para. 1

Para. 2

Para. 3

Para. 4

Read the text again and answer the

questions

1. What’s a theme park?2. How many theme parks are mentioned in the

passage ? And what are they? 3. What do theme parks have in common ?4. How are theme parks different from traditional

amusement parks?

1. What’s a theme park?

*A theme park is a collection of rides , exhibitions or other attractions that are based on a common theme.

2. How many theme parks are mentioned in the passage ? And what are they?

* Five. They are the World Park , China Ethnic Culture Park, Hong Kong Ocean Park, Disneyland in California and Universal Studios in Florida of the States.

3. What do theme parks have in common ?

* What they all have in common is that they combine fun with the opportunity to learn something .

4. How are theme parks different from traditional amusement parks?

Unlike traditional amusement parks , theme parks often want to teach visitors something

Language points 1.unlike traditional amusement, theme park often want to teach visitors somethi

ng teach 接双宾语 ,something 是直接宾语 ,visitors 是间接宾语 . 间接宾语只能放在某些动词的后面 , 常见的这类动词有 :give, show, send, bring, o

ffer, read, pass, lend, leave, hand, tell, return, write, pay, throw, allow, wish, teach, promise, owe, refuse. 等

2.combine...with… e.g. We should combine theory with practice. 3. be divided into e.g. the large house is divided into two small part4.have/miss/find an opportunity to do sth. of doing sth. for sth. e.g. I had no opportunity to discuss it with her. Don’t miss this opportunity, it may never come again.

TRUE OR FALSE

( ) 1. The World Park is the largest park in the world.

( ) 2. The theme of China Ethnic Culture Park is about all the nationalities of China.

( ) 3. You can learn about marine life in Ocean Park.

( ) 4. Ocean Park is divided into two sections. One is the Headland; the other is the Lowland.

( ) 5. Disneyland have opened nowhere but in Europe and Asia

( ) 6. Theme parks are becoming more and more pop-ular throughout the world.

FF

TT

F

T

As we all know , there are so many famous andinteresting cartoon films produced by Disneyland . Can you give us some examples ?

Lion King

Beauty and Beast

Sleeping Beauty

Brother Bear Tom and Jerry

Homework1. Go over the “Reading” and find

out the useful expressions in it.

2. Preview Language study and Grammar—pp.68-69

3. Exx. –Practsing & Grammar—pp.126-127

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.