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Unit 5 Human and Nature
Lesson 3
Race to the Pole
Warming-up
1) What are the temperature like
2) How would you dress to deal with the weather
3) How would you get food
4) Are these civilisations close by
Antarctica is based on the Earth's rotation to determine the most southern point. It is usually said that the Antarctic region geographically, there is a fixed position. In accordance with the internationally accepted concept, 66.5 degrees south latitude (the Antarctic Circle) south of the region known as the Antarctic, which is the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic continent and the islands collectively, with a total area of about 65 million square kilometres.
Antarctic continent except Antarctica is outside the surrounding islands of land, is the world's latest discovery of the continent, alone at the southernmost tip of the Earth. Antarctica more than 95 percent of the area of high thickness of the ice and snow coverage, known as the "white continent," said. 6 in the world in the mainland, the mainland Antarctica than Australia, ranked No. 5. Antarctica and Australia mainland is the world's only ocean surrounded by two mainland, surrounded by the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, forming a huge water around the Earth laps, was completely closed state (see Southern Ocean), is a far from the other continents, completely cut off from the civilized world and the mainland, has not yet permanent residents, only a small number of scientific investigation personnel rotation in a small number of inspection stations temporary residence and work.
南极是根据地球旋转方式决定的最南点。它通常表示地理上的南极区域,有一个固定的位置。 按照国际上通行的概念,南纬66.5度(南极圈)以南的地区称为南极,它是南大洋及其岛屿和南极大陆的总称,总面积约6500万平方千米。
南极大陆是指南极洲除周围岛屿以外的陆地,是世界上发现最晚的大陆,它孤独地位于地球的最南端。南极大陆95%以上的面积为厚度极高的冰雪所覆盖,素有“白色大陆”之称。在全球6块大陆中,南极大陆大于澳大利亚大陆,排名第5。南极大陆和澳大利亚大陆是世界上仅有的被海洋包围的2块大陆,其四周有太平洋、大西洋、印度洋,形成一个围绕地球的巨大水圈,呈完全封闭状态(参看南极洋),是一块远离其他大陆、与文明世界完全隔绝的大陆,至今仍然没有常住居民,只有少量的科学考察人员轮流在为数不多的考察站临时居住和工作。
Lead-in
1) What difficulties do you think explorers may face there
2) What preparations do they need to make
Pre-reading & Fast-reading
Pre-reading & Fast-reading
Pre-reading & Fast-reading
Pre-reading & Fast-reading
Pre-reading & Fast-reading
Careful-reading 1
Read again and complete the information about the two exploration teams. Then talk about the journeys based on your notes.
Scott's team Amundsen's team
Nationality of the two teams
Before the journey
Journey to the destination
Arrival at the destination
The return journey
Careful-reading 2
Pair Work.
Summarise the change of feelings on Scott’s teams return journey. Give reasons for the words or phrases you have chosen.
Suggested Answers
hopeless and helpless (The man were tired and were running out of food.)
determined and devoted (They found time to look for rocks and carried twenty kilos of rocks all the way with them.)
sad but courageous (Edgar Evans had a terrible disease and died. The next to go was Captain Oates. We all hope to meet the end with a similar spirit.)
Careful-reading 3
Read the underlined sentences from Scott’s diary and letter. Work out the implied meaning of these sentences from the context. Write your inferences below.
line 21 ____________________________________________________
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line 26 ____________________________________________________
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line 33 ____________________________________________________
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line 42 ____________________________________________________
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Post-reading
1.Would you say that Scott and his team are losers Why or why not
2.How do you understand Amunden’s saying about Scott’s death “Captain Scott left a record, for honesty, sincerity, for bravery, for everything that makes a man”
Group Work.
Post-reading
Focus on Language: Suffixes
Complete the Word Builder. Then use the correct form of the words in the Word Builder to complete the sentences below (next slide).
Word Builder Suffixes
prepare preparation
situate
hope
cheer
explore
anxious
sad
-tion
-less
-ful
-ness
-ly
Post-reading
Focus on Language: Suffixes
Post-reading
Express Yourself
Read the sentences from Scott’s dairy and letter again.
1. Discuss what he was trying to say in each one.
2. Highlight the parts that impress you most and explain why.
3. Why do you think the writer of the text used the word “race” in the title
4. Why was the world shocked by Scott’s death
Homework
Search online the main events in China’s Antarctica exploration. Why do people try to explore the toughest part of the Earth