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Starting out & Understanding ideas
Unit5 What an adventure!
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CONTENTS
Starting out
Understanding ideas
Lead in
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Homework
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Lead in
Part 1
Talking about explorers from history.
What do you know about them
Starting out
Part 2
Look at the map, and read the information about the three explorers.
Reading and matching
1. Ferdinand Magellan(1480-1521)was a Portuguese explorer who sailed west from Spain across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands(now part of Indonesia) .
Topic related vocabulary:
sail west from
across the oceans
in search of a westward route to
part of
b
2. Vasco da Gama(1460-1524) was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial journey to India opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the east by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
Topic related vocabulary:
reach......by sea
open up the sea route from...to...
by way of
c
3. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)was an Italian explorer who completed journeys between Spain and the Americas, thus marking the beginning of European explorationof the Americas.
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Topic related vocabulary:
completed the journey between ...and ...
Watching and interacting
What do you want to know about Xu Xiake
Where did Xu Xiake travel
Why did he keep traveling
What kind of dfficulties did he meet
What were Xu Xiake’s main achievements
Where did Xu Xiake travel
He traveled to famous rivers, mountains and palces that had never been visited before, covering almost half of modern China.
Why did he keep traveling
He kept traveling because of the curiosity about the natural world.
What kind of difficulties did he meet
He met difficulties such as food shortage, bad weather , illness, dangerous animals, and even robbers.
What were Xu Xiake’s main achievements
He wrote travle diaries on landscape in southern China.
He corrected several mistakes in earlier books.
He discovered the source of the Yangtze River.
Can you infer some characteristics of Xu Xiake according to the video
Qualities of Xu Xiake
adventurous
persistent
curious
rigorous
courageous
Understanding ideas
Part 3
Look at the map and answer the questions.
Why do the climbers need so many camps along the route
It is such a long way that it cannot be done within one day. The climbers need these camps for a rest and adapt themselves to the environment.
Facts about Qomolangma
Key words & expressions
height
oxygen level
location
best time to climb
temperature
first people to reach the top
air pressure
border
confirm
sheer joy
bring...into focus
attempt
stand for
thrill
Read the passage and find out what “Type T” personalities are.
“Type T”personalities, with the “T”standing for “thrill”, are personality traits that make people more likely to take risks than others.
Choose the author's purpose in writing the passage.
To encourage people to climb Qomolangma if fully prepared, as risks bring many benefits.
To remind people to balance the benefits and risks before deciding to climb Qomolangma.
To suggest that people stop taking risks and climbing Qomolangma, as the risks outweigh the benefits.
CLIMBING QOMOLANGMA: WORTH THE RISKS
Complete the paragraphs with expressions from the passage.
sheer joy
enjoy life
Important and unique
look deepinside
mental toughness
human nature
take risks
benefit from the result
Think share
Do you agree with Mallory’s and Arnette’s opinions Why
What people get from this adventure is just sheer joy. People eat and make money to be able to enjoy life, not the other way round.
Each person has an important and unique reason for climbing a mountain. It forces people to look deep inside themselves. To succeed, people must have the physicalas
well as mental toughness.
Homework
Part 4
Homework
Retell the text with the help of ...
topic-related vocabulary
the thinking map