高中英语 Sailing the oceans-Listening课件 新人教版选修9.pptVIP

Listening Listening on P59 * 1. Read these words and then listen to the tape. Circle those aids that early sailors used to find their way. compass maps fish movements stars weather waves currents clouds rainfall birds other ships mountains 2. Listen to the tape again and fill in the chart. Polynesia North Used the sky to find their way Mediterranean Phoenicia Skills Sea or Ocean Sailors from Norway Pacific Studied the waves of the ocean Watched birds to find land 3. These are some Viking sailing directions from Norway to Greenland. Sail west but keep to the north of the Shetland Islands so you can hardly see them in good weather. Stay far enough south of the Faroes so that their steep mountains are just halfway up the horizon. Keep south of Iceland so that you cannot see land but just coastal birds. Follow this route and you should reach Greenland. Use the information from the listening to explain these sailing strategies. Vikings used to prefer to sail following the coastline so they could check that they were on the correct route. Vikings used birds, and natural features like mountains, to direct their ships. LISTENING TEXT NAVIGATIONAL SECRETS Wang Ming (WM) has come to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich to talk to the naval historian Dr Smith (DS). WM: Thank you so much for talking to me. Please can you tell me how sailors managed before navigational instruments or satellites were invented? DS: Of course. At first if there was no land nearby the seamen used the sky to find their way. They looked at the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night. But very soon they began to develop local maps. About 5,000 years ago sailors from Phoenicia in North Africa used simple maps to guide their ships around the Mediterranean Sea. They were the best traders of their day. WM: Really? How cleaver! Did everybody use simple maps