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Learn how to handle challenges
UNIT4
ADVERSITY AND COURAGE
Listening and Speaking
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Learning objectives
1. Listen for details:the situations and challenges the sailors would meet in the Antarctica.
2. Listen for cause and effect and use it to express how to handle challenges.
3. To express your own ideas on the given topic about the selection of rescue team members.
planned to make their expedition to Antarctica on the ship Endurance in 1914. Unfortunately, their voyage did not go smoothly.
got stuck in the ice
left Elephant Island for help
abandoned the ship and camped on the ice
stayed on the island
Revision
&
by
1. snow
3. look same
Task 1
Look at the picture of South Georgia Island below and discuss the challenges you think they faced.
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Task 2
Listen to one of the team members talk about the rescue plan and their journey. Complete the summary.
The team consisted of _______ members. They sailed on rough seas for days before they landed on the ________ side of South Georgia Island. Later they climbed over the mountains and _________ the whaling station. Later, Shackleton arranged for a rescue boat to return to __________ Island. Luckily, everyone was ____________.
six
wrong
arrived at
Elephant
still alive
捕鲸站
汹涌的
安排
Task 3
1. Why was it necessary for Shackleton to travel to South Georgia Island?
2. Why was it important to include a navigator in the team?
3. Why did Shackleton choose the most difficult and unfriendly man to join the rescue mission?
4. Why did Shackleton look extremely old?
What do these four questions have in common?
Listen again and answer these questions.
cause and effect
Task 3
Listen again and answer these questions.
Why was it necessary for Shackleton to travel to South Georgia lsland?
Script
We had stayed on Elephant Island for only a day, but Shackleton was already worried. He realized that many of us were too ill to survive very long without rescue. He decided to go to South Georgia Island for help. He chose fiv