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Unit 4 Adversity and Courage
Lead-in
Notice
Boys and girls,our school will hold a basketball game lasting from May15th to May 19th. More information can be obtained from the following files.
Success? Failure?
A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE
Explore the spirit of adventure
MEN WANTED
for a dangerous journey: small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, and safe return uncertain. Honour and reward will follow if it is successful.
Ernest Shackleton
Predict: an ____ _ ____ story
adventure
Pre-reading
Reading for the type
What is the type of the text?
A. exposition(说明文)
B. argumentation(议论文)
C. narration(记叙文)
What elements(要素)does the narration include?
who
where
what
how
when
From 1914 to 1916
In the Antarctica
By ship-Endurance and small boats
Ernest Shackleton, Perce Blackborow, other sailors
Go through the whole passage, find out the following elements and the main idea of each diary.
How Blackborow
joined the expedition.
Diary1:
Diary2:
Diary3:
How Shackleton and his crew abandoned the ship Endurance.
What the crew members' life
was like on Elephant Island.
While-reading
Scanning
happened to read the ad
applied to join the expedition
turned him down
secretly went aboard
assigned him as a steward
At the very beginning
Then
However
Later
Finally
Read Diary 1 and find the information about how Blackborow joined the expedition ?
Detailed reading
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abandoned the ship
collected essential supplies
became stuck
got crushed
sank
camped on the ice
Diary 2
2. What did the crew members have to do?
1. What happened to Endurance?
3. Why did Shackleton allow Hussey to keep his banjo?
To keep their spirits up
1.What did shackleton do to make sure all crew members could survive?
2. What did the crew members have to do to make sure they could survive?
3. What do you think would happen next?
Shackleton made sure they survived by leaving with a few men to find help. It was too dan