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Preview the new words before we start the lesson.
Please read the new words of lesson 1 for 3 times.
高一英语备课组
Talk to your partner about a trip to the sea. What did you do? What did you do? What did you see? How did you feel...?
Lesson 1
The Spirit of Explorers
Which famous explorers do you know? Where did they go?
This is Christopher Columbus, maybe the first European to reach America...
Do you know what Ferdinand Magellan did?
What about Captain James Cook?
What kind of spirit do you think explorers must have?
What dangers do you think they would have faced? Talk to your partner for a moment...
What do you know about the Vikings?
Now open your books, and turn to Page 8. Read quickly, and fill in the following table, finding out what the people discovered, when and how. You have 2 minutes.
When Who What How
the middle of the 9th century Eric the Red discovered Greenland blown there by a storm
not long after Eric had landed in Greenland Biarni unknown land blown off course
the year 1002 Leif Now known as Newfoundland planned the trip
Who made each of these voyages?
Discuss it with your partner!
Now put the following events in order:
Eric told people about Greenland.
Eric left Iceland and set sail west.
10,000 Vikings lived in Iceland.
Leif discovered Newfoundland.
14 ships arrived at Greenland.
Eric returned to Iceland.
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Turn to page 18
Read the passage for 1 minute, and try to answer as many of the following questions as you can.
How many ships did Zheng He have?
What was the size of the largest ones?
Why were Zheng’s sailors happy to follow him?
How could they grow their own food?
What did Zheng’s ships carry?
What did Zheng bring back?
Talk with your partner in English. If you had lived in the age of exploration, would you have been willing to be an explorer? Why, or why not?
Homework
Finish additional reading and check the answers.
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石门中学2022届高一英语配套阅读材料 – Unit 7, Lesson 1
Passage 1 (no questions, just a passage that can encourage me when I