广东省广州市培才高级中学高考英语复习课件：新人教选修9Unit2Sailingtheoceans-Reading（共38张）.ppt

Quadrant: a more precise form of the astrolabe, to measure how high stars are above the horizon, and compare that measurement with previous measurements (using the ship as one of the fixed points to find its position) Sextant: an updated version of the quadrant and so it was more accurate, to measure the angle between two fixed points outside the ship (using two mirrors to find the ships position). 5. Imagine you are on a boat with twenty-nine other people. You have a small box for your personal things but it can only hole ten items. What would you need for a week’s journey across the North Sea to England? Category Items Clothes Hygiene Bedding Games soap blanket cards, chess shirt, trousers Category Items Shoes Tools Medicines Books knife, scissors sea-sick tablets, cold medicine novels, essay collections waterproof boots Read the passage (Reading) and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 1. An early method of calculating longitude was to use a knotted rope tied to a log. 2. The astrolabe was the first instrument to measure the sun’s position. 3. The quadrant was more precise and simplified than the astrolabe, but still had its shortcoming. T F T 4. Up till now, the most accurate and reliable navigational instrument is the sextant. 5. The astrolabe, quadrant and sextant are different kinds of navigational instruments and they have nothing to do with each other. F F Type of writing and summary of SAILING THE OCEAN. Type SAILING THE OCEAN Using nature to help: Using navigational instruments to help: exposition Finding longitude, Finding latitude Keeping alongside the coastline, using celestial bodies, using wildlife, using the weather, using the sea Homework 1. Review this passage. 2. Preview Learning about language. Reading The four basic instruments for navigation: Sinan, Inch Astrolabe, Sextant and nautical map. Sinan, the ancient Chinese compass. It was invented by Zhang H