1、 Goals of this unit Learn to know why people take risks to climb mountains like Qomolangma; Learn to express your opinions on taking risks to climbing high mountains; Learn to use past future tense to show what would happen; Learn to know Jules Verne and adoption of his work Twenty Thousand Leagues
2、Under the Sea; Learn to know different adventure trips; Learn to talk about and write your adventure trip; Learn about the biography of the three explorers; Learn about the three explorers adventure trips and find out their routes from the map; Learn about Xu Xiakes life and his travel by watching t
3、he video; Learn how to get the key information of a video; Look at the map and find out each explorers adventure routes; Read the information of four explorers; b a c America Africa Europe Asia Look at the map and name each part along the routes. Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean Indian Oce
4、an Read the information about the four explorers. Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese explorer who sailed west from Spain across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands. Vasco da Gama Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial j
5、ourney to India opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the east by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Christopher Columbus Italian explorer who completed journeys between Spain and the Americas, marking the beginning of European exploration of the Americas. b a c Mark each explorers route. Ferdin
6、and Magellan Christopher Columbus Vasco da Gama Zheng He The first voyage started in Yongle three years (1405), and the last voyage ended in Xuande eight years (1433), totaling seven times. Zheng Hes voyage to the west is the largest and longest sailing voyage in China in ancient times. Read informa
7、tion about Xu Xiake; Watch the video and answer questions; Xu Xiake (15861641) was born in Jiangyin city, Jiangsu province. Xu Xiake loved to read history, geography and books about adventure, travelling and so on. After 30 years of travelling, Xu Xiake wrote many travel diaries on famous mountains
8、and other places. After his death, these diaries were collected into a book called The travel diaries of Xu Xiake. The book provides records of geography, hydrology (水文地理学水文地理学), geology (地质学地质学) and plants. While recording his travel experiences in his diaries, Xu Xiake also related the lives and c
9、ustoms of local people as well as the distribution of ethnic minority groups, which was seldom seen in official history. Xu Xiakes travel route Before watching the video, you should read the questions first to guess what you are expect to get in the video; Take notes of the key points while watching
10、 the video; Watch the video and answer the questions. 1. What kind of difficulties did Xu Xiake meet? 2. Do you know any other great explorers? Share their stories with the class. Tips The explorers name, birthplace, birth time and death time; The explorers adventure; Why is the explorer so special
11、to you? Read the introduction sentences carefully and find out the use of key words and expressions in the period; Use the key words and expressions to describe the explorer that you choose; Key words and expressions in search of explore initial 1. who sailed west from Spain across the Atlantic and
12、Pacific oceans in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands. in search of: looking for something 寻找某寻找某物物 eg Scientists are in search of a cure for the disease. Many people had left their homes and moved to the big city in search of work. 【拓展拓展】 search sb./sth. 搜身搜身，搜查某物，搜查某物 search for 寻找寻找 2
13、. explore explore v. if you explore, or explore a place, you travel around it to find out what it is like 探测探测；探险；探险 eg As a student, I want to use my creativity to explore possible solutions to problems I meet. exploration n. 探索探索；探测；探测 explorer n. 探险家探险家；探测器；探测器 【拓展拓展】 3. His initial journey to In
14、dia opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the east by way of the Cape of Good Hope. initial adj. : happening at the beginning 开始开始的，最初的，最初的的 eg My initial reaction was to refuse. in search of / search / search for explore / exploration / explorer initial for example He went there in search of the monster that was said in the forest. He explored the forest with other explorers in this exploration. His initial purpose was to kill the monster but finally he found out that the monster was just a poor homeless man. Whats your opinion? Hero or pirate?
