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Unit 5
What an adventure!
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Goals of this unit
Learn to know why people take risks to climb mountains like Qomolangma;
Learn to express your opinions on taking risks to climb high mountains;
Learn to use past future tense to show what would happen;
Learn to know Jules Verne and adaption of his work Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea;
Learn to know different adventure trips;
Learn to talk about and write your adventure trip;
To read the information about the three explorers;
To learn about the three explorers’ adventure trips and find out their routes from the map;
To learn about Xu Xiake’s life and his travel by watching the video.
Read the information about the following explorers.
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
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).
Vasco da Gama (1460-1524)
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.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
He was an Italian explorer who completed journeys between Spain and the Americas, thus marking the beginning of European exploration of the Americas.
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Look at the map on Page 49 and match the routes to the explorers.
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Zheng He (1371-1433)
The first voyage started in Yongle three years (1405), and the last voyage ended in Xuande eight years (1433), totaling seven times. Zheng He's voyage to the west is the largest and longest sailing voyage in China in ancient times.
Xu Xiake (1586~1641) was born in Jiangyin city, Jiangsu province. Xu Xiake loved to read history, geography and books about adventure, travelling and so on. After 30 years of travelling, Xu Xiake wrote many travel diaries on famous mountains and other places.
Read information about another advanture —Xu Xiake.
After his death, these diaries were collected into a book called The travel diaries of Xu Xiake. The book provides records of geography, hydrology (水文地理学), geology (地质学) and plants. While recording his travel experiences in his diaries, Xu Xiake also related the lives and customs of local people as well as the distribution of ethnic minority groups, which was seldom seen in official history.
Xu Xiake’s travel route
Watch the video and answer the questions.
2. Do you know any other great explorers Share their stories with the class.
1. What kind of difficulties did Xu Xiake meet
2. Do you know any other great explorers Share their stories with the class.
1. What kind of difficulties did Xu Xiake meet
Xu travelled on foot. He often went without food for days, and suffered bad weather, illness, dangerous animals and even robbers.
Tips: The explorer’s name, birthplace, birth time and death time;
The explorer’s adventure;
Why is the explorer so special to you
Supplementary information
Explorer Time & Nationality Adventure Achievement & Influence
Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521 Portuguese sailed west from Spain across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Spice Islands (now part of Indonesia) explored the westward route to South-east Asia
Vasco da Gama 1460-1524 Portuguese opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the east by way of the Cape of Good Hope the first European to reach India by sea
Explorer Time & Nationality Adventure Achievement & Influence
Christopher Columbus 1451-1506 Italian completed journeys between Spain and the Americas marked the beginning of European exploration of the Americas
Explorer Time & Nationality Adventure Achievement & Influence
Xu Xiake 1587-1641 Chinese (the Ming Dynasty) explored famous mountains and rivers, and went to places that had never been visited before covered almost half of modern China travelled on foot corrected several mistakes in earlier books
discovered that the Jinsha River was the true source of the Yangtze River
1. explore v. if you explore a place, you travel around it to find out what it is like 探测；探险
explorer n. 探险家，探险者
exploration n. 探险，探测
eg He explored the forest with other explorers. It is a great exploration in his life.
2. His initial journey to India opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the east by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
initial adj. : happening at the beginning 开始的，最初的
eg My initial reaction was to refuse.
His initial purpose was to kill the monster but finally he found out that the monster was just a poor homeless man.
It is always the adventurer who accomplishes great things.
— Montesquieu
成大事者往往是冒险家。 —孟德斯鸠
What’s your opinion
Making a poster about a modern-day adventurer
their names, ages and nationalities
where they went and what they did there
