Unit 5 Humans and nature Lesson 3 Race to the pole 课件 -2023-2024学年高中英语北师大版（2019）必修第二册

Humans and Nature Unit 5 Lesson 3 Race to the Pole Antarctica How much do you know about Antarctica? Think and Share It is the southernmost point on the Earth. 单击此处编辑母版标题样式 www.515ppt.com 2 It is the fifth largest continent in area. Area: 1400km² The coldest month: July Average temperature: -51.5℃ It is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent. It has the highest average elevation (海拔) of all the continents. Suppose you are an explorer of Antarctic. What difficulties do you think you may face there? What preparations do you need to make? 4 Questions 1. What difficulties explorers may face there? 2. What preparations do they need to make? temperature transportation(交通) weather terrain(地形) Equipment: sledges, ski, dogs/wolves Careful plan: Travel time, supply(warm coat and food), living(build food base) 5 canned food compass ski (滑雪板) sledge (雪橇) A team of dogs tents (帐篷) warm clothes map What information can you get from the title? (What is the competition? What is it for?) Competition The South Pole Competitors （Who are they?） Race to the Pole 7 Roald Amundsen Norway Captain Scott Britain Race to the Pole What happened to his team? 单击此处编辑母版标题样式 8 Careful-reading – complete the information Scott’s team Amundsen’s team The race began A S 1911.9.8 1911.11.1 1911.12.14 1912.1.17 1912.1.25 all died Arrival at the south pole Arrival at the starting base safely 9 Scott’s team Amundsen’s team Before the journey Journey to the destination Arrival at the destination The return journey P38 3 Read and complete the information about the two exploration teams. Both teams organized food bases. Careful-reading – complete the information Scott's team Amundsen's team Journey to the destination Two sledges broke down, 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 ra