1、Unit 3 ADVENTURE1.What are the essential qualities of adventurers and explorers?ENDURANCEThe Story of Ernest Shackleton,hero of the AntarcticThe name of the shipA story/narration Character Place TimesettingWhatWhyhowShackletonThe Antarctic1914an expeditionan explorerPara.1-21.What did Shackleton do
2、before the expedition?Advertisement Men wanted for a hazardous journey.Small wages.Bitter cold.Long months of complete darkness.Constant danger.Safe return doubtful.Do you want to sign up for the journey?2.How many people applied for the journey and how do you think of them?Please scan the rest of t
3、he passage,Please scan the rest of the passage,underline the time underline the time and place signal wordsand place signal words,and answer the following,and answer the following questions.questions.1.How long was this journey?2.Can you draw a route of this journey?EnglandThe Weddell SeaElephant Is
4、landSouth GeorgiaWhaling station4 months Please read Para 3-5 and fill in the tablePara.3-5What happened during this period?timeweatherwhat happened What they didEngland4 monthsThe Weddell SeaElephant IslandSouth GeorgiaWhaling stationtimeweatherWhat happened What they did17 January 1915exceptionall
5、y badTheir ship got stuck in ice and unable to moveWait for eight months in complete darkness and freezing coldSpring cameIce meltedThe ship broke in halfAbandon the ship and camp on the ice for two months21 November 1915The ship sankThey survived by floating on the ice and then headed for the neare
6、st islandElephant IslandRead Para.5 and answer the following questions.2.Was Elephant Island a good place to stay?1.How were the men when they got to Elephant island?3.What did Shackleton do?4.What transportation did they use?South GeorgiaWhaling station1,300 km After fifteen exhausting days with wi
7、nds of sixty kilometres an hour and waves of up to fifteen metres high,they arrived in South Georgia.The weather was so bad that they couldnt land for two days.Even when they landed,their journey wasnt over.The whaling station was sixty kilometres away on the other side of the mountainous island.No
8、one had ever crossed South Georgia on foot before.Elephant Island1.Was the journey to South Georgia smooth and peaceful?u exhausting menu bad weatheru Mountains that had never been crossed on foot beforeSouth GeorgiaWhaling stationRead Para.6 and answer this question.Whaling stationRead Para.7 to se
9、e how Shackleton and other five men crossed the mountainous island.How do you feel after reading this paragraph?Ending On 30 August 1916,two years after the expedition began,they returned to Elephant Island in a small boat provided by the Chilean government.The other twenty-three men were still wait
10、ing.Miraculously,not one person had died.Obviously,the story had a _ ending.Fill in an adjective.happyIf you were the men who were waiting for Shackleton in Elephant Island,how would you feel at that time?Elephant IslandSouth GeorgiaWhaling stationEnglandThe Weddell SeaElephant IslandTurn to page 38
11、.Read the proverbs in exercise and think,which can be used to describe Shackletons adventures?Why?A hazardous and miraculous expeditionSouth GeorgiaWhaling stationPlease read Para 9 and think what the author mainly talks Please read Para 9 and think what the author mainly talks about in the last par
12、agraph?about in the last paragraph?Shackleton even returned to Antarctic.In 1921,he set out again to sail round the continent,but died during the journey in 1922.He was buried in South Georgia,remembered by history as a man who showed exceptional leadership and unbelievable endurance.Why is Shacklet
13、on looked up to as a hero despite his failure to reach the South Pole?What qualities does Shackleton have?What qualities does Shackleton have?1.Based on the information in _,it appears that Shackleton _because _.2.From whats written in paragraph _,it isnt hard to figure out that Shackleton _ because
14、 _.3.According to paragraph _,we can learn/guess that _ because_.4.Judging from the fact in paragraph _,it seems that Shackleton _.Requirements:work in groups of four and each student choose one sentence pattern to answer the question.What is the authors attitude toward Shackleton?A.supportive B.neutral C.negativeWhat can we learn from story?
