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北师大必修
第二册
Unit 5
Lesson 3
Race to the Pole
教学目
Lead-in
Look at the photos of Antarctica.
What difficulties do you think explorers may face there?
What preparations do they need to make?
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To learn about the difficulties explorers face and learn to summarise and make inferences by reading stories about Antarctic expeditions
To learn about and practise suffixes
学习目标
目标一:To learn about the difficulties explorers face and learn to summarise and make inferences by reading stories about Antarctic expeditions
Activity 1: Here is an account of two teams' journeys to the South Pole. Read the text quickly and finish the two tasks.
When did the two journeys began?
What happened to the two teams?
1. Amundsen’s team: 8 September, 1911
Scott’s team: 1 November, 1911
2. Scott and his team didn’t make it.They died on their return journey. Amundsen and his team arrived safely back to their starting base on 25 January, 1912, ten days ahead of their planned schedule.
Task 1 Answer the following questions.
Task 2 Divide the text into 2 parts and decide the main ideas.
Part 1:
Line 1 ~ line 21: the race to the south pole
Part 2:
Line 22 ~ end: the return journey
Activity 2: Read carefully. 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
Scott's team Amundsen's team
Nationality of the two teams
Before the journey
Journey to the destination
British
Norwegian
They organised food bases.
Two sledges broke down, and the horses had difficulties with the cold. Scott and his men had to push the sledges themselves.
He had teams of dogs pulling the sledges and all his men were on skis. Because of this, he made rapid progress.
They organised food bases.
Scott's team Amundsen's team
Arrival at the destination
The return journey
Scott arrived at th