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Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Lesson 3 Race to the Pole
【学习目标】
You will be able to
1. read and talk about the difficulties that explorers face
2. read for deep understanding
3. summarise information
4. learn about and practise suffixes
【学习重难点】
1. reading for specific information and deep understanding
2. summarising a text
【学习过程】
1. What do you know about Antarctica?
2. Exploring Antarctica.
(1) If you are going to explore Antarctica, what difficulties do you think you may face there?
(2) What preparations do you need to make?
3. Read the text and find out.
(1) When did the two journeys begin?
(2) What happed to the two teams?
4. Read again and complete the chart.
| 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
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5. Group Work: Read and discuss.
(1) How did Scott’s team feel at the beginning of the journey?
(2) How did they feel at the end?
(3) Why do you think this changed?
6. Imagine you witness the following unrelated situations—what can you infer about each one?
Situations
| Inferences
| (1) You see a woman pushing a baby stroller down the street.
| | (2) You are at a corner and see two parked cars at an intersection, and the driver in back starts honking his horn.
| | (3) You are walking down the street, and suddenly a dog comes running out of an opened door with its tail between its legs.
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7.Read the underlined sentences from Scott’s diary and letter. Write your inferences.
line 21 _____________________________________________________________
line 26 _____________________________________________________________
line 33 _____________________________________________________________
line 42 _____________________________________________________________
8. Group Work: Think and share.
(1) Would you say that Scott and his team were losers? Why or why not?
(2) How do you understand Amundsen’s saying about Scott’s death “Captain Scott left a record, for honesty, sincerity, for bravery, for everything that makes a man”?
9. Pair Work: Read the sentences from Scott’s diary and letter again.
(1) Discuss what he was trying to say in each one.
(2) Highlight the parts that impress you most and explain why.
10. Pair Work: Discuss.
(1) Why do you think the writer of the text used the word “race” in the title?
(2) Why was the world shocked by Scott’s death?
11. Search online and share.
(1) Search online the main events in China’s Antarctica exploration.
(2) Why do people try to explore the toughest part of the Earth?
【精炼反馈】
I. 从方框中选择恰当的单词或短语，并用其适当形式填空。
in preparation for break down anxiously run out of be based on
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1. He ___________ and wept when he heard the bad news.
2. We ___________ fuel, so we had to go to the gas station.
3. His paper ___________ his professor’s previous researches.
4. We are ___________ waiting for the exam results.
5. The couple is very busy recently as they are ___________ their wedding.
II. 用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. __________ (explore) of Mars by the newest robotic system will begin next month.
2. He has prepared to go to any lengths to fulfil his __________ (ambitious).
3. The beach is within walking __________ (distant) of my house.
4. He felt a great sense of __________ (sad) and loss.
5. Everyone is feeling pretty __________ (hope) about the future.
Ⅲ. 请根据课文内容，填入恰当的单词或短语使文章完整。
On 1st June 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott left London to begin his journey to Antarctica. While he was 1. __________ to Antarctica, he received a message from the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen which said he was going south, too. Then the 2. __________ to the South Pole began!
During the polar summer, both teams organised food bases 3. __________ the coming journey. The journey was not smooth at the beginning. First, two sledges 4. __________ and the horses began to have 5. __________ difficulties with the snow and the cold.
The return was doomed. They were soon 6. __________ and were 7. __________ food. Then disaster soon came. Edgar Evans died after a bad fall. The next to go was Captain Oates, who was having great difficulty in walking. He finally 8. __________ the end with the spirit of gentlemen. The rest of them 9. __________ and got within eleven miles of one of their food bases. But the storm put an end to the story. They 10. __________ to win the race to the Pole, but they were still considered heroes.
Ⅳ. 请用下列单词中的至少3个创编一个对话或短文。
preparation base ambition explorer prove
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