Part 1. Analysis of the teaching material.（說教材）This part consists of 4 aspects1. Status and function of this passage This reading passage is the highlight of this unit. It mainly talks about Wang Kun and his sister’s dream of taking a great bike trip down the Mekong River, their preparation for the trip and some more details of the Mekong River. By studying of this unit, students will know how to make plan and preparation for a trip. So it not only contains the most important words and sentence structures of this unit but also embodies the theme of this whole unit.(Now let’s come to the teaching aims, they are knowledge aims, ability aims and emotional aims. )2. Teaching aims. (1) Knowledge aims ：to help Ss master the new words and useful expressions and learn to express future by present progressive tense (2) Ability aims: to develop Ss’ reading skills, such as skimming, scanning and the ability of reading between lines. to let Ss use what they have learned to describe a trip.(3)Emotional aims: to simulate Ss’ love for nature and environment. to cultivate Ss’ international consciousness.(That’s all for the teaching aims, now let’s come to the teaching important and difficult points.)3. The important and difficult points:The important point is to help Ss to master new words and expression. The difficult point is to help Ss to develop different reading skills and reading strategies.4. Analysis of the students（說學(xué)生）My students are first-grade students of senior high school. They have been learning English in junior high school and have accumulated a certain number of vocabularies.