师：Okay, thank you, Casking. That's all, Monica. Thank you. Now, look around. There are so many teachers in our class today, and we're going to have an interesting class. That's what we're going to learn. Unit 12, Culture. First, look at the title of this class. Tell me what the speech is about. Jenny's... What is the speech? It's a journey. And before "journey", what can we use to modify it? Adjectives. So what adjectives can you think of? Talk with your partners quickly. Use adjectives to modify "Jenny's journey". Go.
（生两两讨论）
师：Okay, now let's check one by one. Exciting, good. Interesting, enjoyable, relaxing. Happy. What else? Difficult? Sometimes it can be. Now, this is just a title. What about using a sentence? What would you say?
（生回答，不太清晰，师继续讲解）
师：Well, let's move on. We'll talk about how they go to school every day. That's what we're going to learn today. It's about culture. But first, let's solve the problems about the new words. Please close your books. We're going to play a game called "Look at My Mouth". Just look at my mouth and guess the word or phrase. Watch carefully. The first one.
（师示范动作，生猜测）
生：On time.
师：Perfect. Now, the second one.
生：Jenny.
师：That's good. Thank you. Now, the next one.
生：White.
师：Thank you. Next one. Look at my mouth very carefully.
生：Tiny.
师：You're so great. Now, I live in 203, you live in 204. So I'm your...
生：Neighbor.
师：Can you spell "neighbor"?
生：n - e - i - g - h - b - o - r.
师：Yeah, neighbor. Sometimes it can also be spelled with a "u" in British English. Now, the next one.
生：Take a risk.
师：Wow, that's amazing. Going to school can be dangerous, so we say "take a risk". Now, the last one. What does a train need? If we don't have this, the train can't run.
生：Tracks.
师：Right. If the train doesn't have any tracks, it can't run. Now, these are the new words and phrases in this unit. Repeat after me: on time, online, white, tiny, neighbor, take a risk, which means something dangerous, village, tracks. And Jenny will have a hard journey today. These words are easy for you to remember. Now, open your books to page 117. You're going to match the words with their meanings. Let's see. Is the journey easy or difficult? Part 4. All the words are on the board. Match them with the correct meanings.
（生完成匹配任务）
师：Have you finished? Let's see. Number 1, "from one side to the other" means "across". Number 2, "people living in a house near you" is "neighbor". Good. "A trip" is "journey". "Do something that can be dangerous" is "take a risk". "A group of houses, usually in the countryside" is "village". And number 5, "the things that trains move on" are "tracks".
Now, look at the text. How many paragraphs are there? Hurry up.
生：Seven.
师：Good. Next question. Read the text along with the tape and try to figure out how many countries it mentions and which country the pictures are from. Two questions: one, how many countries; two, which countries the three pictures are from. Understand? Now, let's read together. Unit 12, page 116. Go.
（师生一起朗读课文）
课文内容：Hard journeys for schoolchildren. How do you get to school? This question often gets an answer like "by bus" or "I walk" or "my parents take me by car". But not always. There are children in many different parts of the world who every day have to go on a difficult journey in order to get to their lessons. They travel kilometers on foot or by boat, bicycle, donkey or train. They cross deserts, mountains, rivers, snow and ice. For example, the children of the Inupiat community in Alaska go to school and then come back when it is dark in extremely cold temperatures. And they are not the only ones. Kids in many countries do this and more. These children in Indonesia have to cross a bridge 10 meters above a dangerous river to get to their class on time. The bridge fell down in 2001 after very heavy rain. Then they walk many more kilometers through the forest to their school in Banton Village. At Kelly Village Primary School, a Chinese boy rides a donkey as his grandfather walks beside him. Goo is a mountain village in a national park. The school is far away from the village. It is halfway up a mountain, so it takes five hours to climb from the bottom of the mountain to the school. The children have a dangerous journey. The path is only 45 cm wide in some places. In Sri Lanka, some children have to cross a piece of wood between two walls of an old castle every morning. Their teacher watches them carefully. But in Sri Lanka, many girls don't go to school. They have to go to work or get married young. So girls are happy to take a risk in order to get to school. Six - year - old Fabricio Olivera gets on his donkey every morning to ride with his friends for over an hour through a desert region in a very dry area of northeast Brazil. Their school is in a tiny village. Only a very few people live there. These children live in poor houses on Chekka Road in Delhi, India. Their homes are near the busy and dangerous railway lines that go to Alipua station. Every morning, they walk along the tracks to get to their school 40 minutes away. So one question we can ask is, why do the children do this? Because their parents make them do it? The answer in many cases is no. It's because for them, going to school means a better future. They hope to get a job and money so they can help their families and their neighbors. And this is why rivers, deserts or danger won't stop them on their way to school.