The beauty of the polar landscape

The wildlife in Antarctica

vocabulary

on one’s way

Norwegian

preparation

sledge

break down

shock

在途中

n.挪威人

n.准备，预备

n.雪车，雪橇

损坏，不能运转

vt.震惊，惊骇

goal

ambition

exhausted

run out of

hopeless

cheerful

distant

n.目的，目标

n.志向，抱负

adj.疲惫的

用完，耗尽

adj.没有希望的

adj.愉快的，高兴的

adj.远处的，久远的

carry on

within

sadness

function

patience

nationality

aim

继续做某事

prep.在……里面

n.悲哀，忧伤

vt.运转，起作用

n.耐心，忍耐力

n.国籍

n.目标，目的

What do you think of Antarctic? Can you What do you think of Antarctic? Can you use some adj. to describe it?use some adj. to describe it?

beautiful fantastic amazing

cold

What do you think of Antarctic now? What do you think of Antarctic now?

freezing terrible dangerous

IQ Quiz

1. In which polar season should u go?

2. Which equipments should you take?

summer

√ dog firesledge motorbike horse water

food

radio

down jacket 羽绒服jeans 牛仔裤

swimsuit tentcompass

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3. What difficulties will you face?

storm coldness

run out of fresh water 淡水

run out of foodequipment break down

sand storm loneliness

fire break out frostbite冻伤√ √

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√

Can you imagine how dangerous it is to go to Antarctic?

penguin polar bear

grass

Plants & flowers

whale

seal

iceberg

skyscraper

Eskimo爱斯基摩人

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4. What will you see there?

sledge

pony

fossil

Scott base at the South Pole

Scott

Look at the title and photos and guess the answers to these questions.

1.Which Pole did they race to?

2.When did they go?

3.Who reached the Pole first?

The South Pole

1910_1911

Amundsen

1. Why did Amundsen succeed and Scott fail?

2. What did Scott’s expedition achieve?

3.Why did Scott and his men become heroes?

Line 11~ line 17

Line 63~ line 66

(Line 35~ line 37). Reached Antarctic and collect fossils and rocks that proved Antarctic had once been covered by plants

1. Scott and Amundsen started their journeys in the polar spring. 2. Scott’s use of motor sledges and ponies was a success. 3. Amundsen travelled more quickly than Scott. 4. When they got to the Pole,Scott’s expedition had a celebration. 5. Captain Oates went for a walk and got lost in a snow storm. 6. Scott’s last letter to his wife.

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Reading Strategies: Dealing with difficult words

Read the sentence the world is in and decide what kind of word it is (e.g. adj., noun, etc.)

Read the paragraph the word is in and try to work out the meaning from the context.

Check the context to see if the meaning fits , e.g. expedition is possibly a kind of journey. (This meaning fits context of the sentence.)

Now use a dictionary to check the exact meaning of the word.

A. expedition

B. depots

C. devastated

D. bitterly

1.Shocked and sad

2.angrily and unhappily

3.a journey organised for a sp

ecial purpose

4.a place where things are sto

red

C

D

A

B

E. ambition

F. desperate

G. cheerful

H. frostbite

I. spirit

J. remarkable

1.very bad or serious

2.in a good mood

3.something you want to

achieve

4.courage and strength

5.extraordinary

6.frozen fingers and toes

F

G

E

I

J

H

Read the text once again and note down everything that you don't understand.