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课件网) The Great Outdoors Unit 3 Lesson 2 Warm-Up What do you see in the picture Read and Remember Let’s read! north west east south Read and Remember explorer torch rucksack sleeping bag camp Let’s read! tent Read and think. Which journey do you think is the most exciting Why We always want to find out more about the planet where we live. Explorers travel to new paces to learn new things. Read and think. Marc Polo Marco Polo was not the first European to travel east to China, but he is the most famous because of his books. Lots of people have read these, including the explorer Christopher Columbus. Marco left Italy in 1271 with his father and uncle, who were making their second journey to China. He went with them and only came back 24 years later. When they went to China they travelled mostly over land, going through mountains and across the Gobi Desert. When he came west, back to Europe, he travelled more by sea. He visited India and Sri Lana before he got back home. He brought back lots of stories and the idea of paper money, which people later copied. Read and think. Ranulph Fiennes Guinness World Records described Fiennes as ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’. He has been on more than 30 expeditions. In 1979 he started an expedition around the world which took three years to finish, he and his team went to both the North and South Poles- an adventure of more than 83,000 km. Another difficult expedition was when he walked Antarctica in 1993 with Dr Stroud. On this expedition, the didn’t carry rucksacks on their backs. They pulled sledges which weighed 225kg because they were carrying all the things which they needed to camp. They had special clothes, tents, sleeping bags and torches (or flashlights) to see in the dark. Listen. Repeat the word and say Marco, Ranulph, or Both. 1.east 2.explorer 3.north 4.camp 5.tent 6.sleeping bag 7.south 8.torch 9.rucksack 10.west Read again and correct the sentence. 1. Marco Polo travelled east to Australia. 2. He wrote books about his journey. 3. Fiennes is the world's greatest living explorer. Marco Polo travelled east to China. His father and uncle wrote books about his journey. 3. Fiennes is described as the world's greatest living explorer. Read again and correct the sentence. 4. A rucksack is a bag you can sleep in. 5. Fiennes went to India with Dr Stroud. 6. Their sledges weighed 25 kilos. A sleeping bag is a bag you can sleep in. Fiennes went to Antarctica in 1993 with Dr Stroud. Their sledges weighed 225 kilos. Read and Match. It’s something you use to see in the dark. It’s a big bag which you carry on your back. It’s like a small house. You use it when you go camping. A B C C A B Read and say the letter. It’s something which you sleep in. It’s someone who travels to a new place to learn about it. D E E D Read and Match. Read and choose. Look at the map. Say “yes” or “no”. Clidditch is north of Ness Lake. Alchester is south ... ...
