Unit 2 Crossing Limits
Goals:
Talk about exploring the world
Practise judging situations and making decisions
Review the predicate
Write a persuasive essay
The first period Listening
Teaching goals:
1. Words and expressions: explore, exploration, discover, discovery, face risks, face challenges,
modern means, equipment.
2. Enable the students to learn that exploring in the past and present are quite different.
3. Enable the students to learn how to compare the past and present exploring.
Teaching important points:
Enable the students to fully understand the “problem-solution” part in Warming up and Listening materials.
Teaching difficult points:
By training listening strategies of prediction and doing shorthand, enable students to form a good
habit of listening.
Teaching methods:
Team work learning and task-based learning.
Teaching aids:
A projector and some slides.
Teaching procedures:
StepⅠ Revision
Quiz: Who was the first person that mapped the Indian coast?
Who was the first person that discovered the “New World”?
Why did Abel Tasman sail along the coast of Australia and many islands in the Pacific Ocean?
What was James Cook’s purpose of his voyage?
(Keys: Zheng He; Columbus; Tasman was to answer questions about the nature of the geography of
Pacific Ocean regions during the exploration; Cook was chosen by the Royal Society of London to
undertake a scientific journey to Tahiti to observe and document the event as the planet Venus
passed between the earth and the sun. His secret task was to find new landmasses in the south.)
Step Ⅱ Warming up
Task one World map exploration
How many continents are there in the world? What are they?
( Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, North America, South America and Antarctic.)
Task two Discussion
What were the dangers and challenges that explorers had to face in the past while exploring the
world?
(First they had to struggle against big storms, icebergs and great rocks that lie unnoticed in the sea.
Second, they may easily get ill without fresh vegetables on board. Third, they had to fight against
pirates and unfriendly natives.)
Task three List words and expressions
Item Words and expressions
Words with the meaning of exploration and discovery Make a discovery, expedition, explore the
unknown, exploration
Purposes and experiences in the course of an expedition Do scientific research, map the coast, find
a new landmass, discover an island, hit a rock, meet with storms, fight against the natives, land, hide
in a harbor.
Transport and communication Set out for, set sail for, on board, by sea, on deck, by flag language,
by telephone
Step Ⅲ Pre-listening
Task one Prediction
Now we are going to hear in interview between a reporter and a professor about exploring in the
past and at present. Before listening, please think what kind of questions the reporter will ask and list
at least three questions.
(What communicating tools did they use in the past? How did they store enough fresh water? How
did they deal with sickness in the course of exploration in the past?)
Task two Question and answer
What modern means can explorers make use of today?
(send messages by radio; take pictures with advanced cameras in space travel; use robots and other
advanced equipment to accomplish some dangerous tasks.)
Step Ⅳ While-listening
Task one Listen for the first time and fill in the chart.
In the tape you are going to hear the differences of communication and transport used in the past
and at present. Listen to the tape and fill in the chart of Exercise 2 on Page 11.
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