Unit 2 Period 1 Warming up 课件.pptVIP

Nautical charts are maps of the depth of the sea and the currents of the oceans. They provide modern sailors with routes through the seas, rather like roads through the countryside. The information began to be collected in the nineteenth century and has continued to be updated ever since. These charts were not available to Captain Bligh or Zheng He. Which ones do you think are still used today? Sea charts are still used today. 1 How do you think seamen found their way before modern accurate methods of navigation were invented? Answer the questions. Kept close to the shore, used nature such as the sun, wind, birds, tide, etc, to help them, and used some of the instruments including a compass, astrolabe, etc. 2 Which do you think was easier to work out: latitude or longitude? Latitude, because it was used to measure how far you had travelled from land on a straight line. It was discovered a long time before longitude. U2 P1 Warming up 课件 Objectives 1. 了解人类早期的航海术。 2. 了解历史上著名的航海家、探险家及 著名的航海事迹。 3. 学习表示“原因与结果”的用语。 4. 学习本单元的词汇。 5. 进一步复习掌握谓语的用法。 When we want to talk about a famous navigator in Chinese history, who would you like to think of first? A person who directs the route or course of a ship, aircraft, or other form of transportation, esp. by using instruments and maps navigator Navigators or Explorers What is the difference between a navigator and an explorer? Navigator is someone who finds the position and plots the course of a ship, an aircraft, a car, etc, using maps and instruments. Navigator sea nautical (航海的) instruments find new islands or continents Explorer is someone who travels into or through a place in order to learn about it. Very often navigators are also explorers. Explorer land use of compass and landmarks find new places within an already identified island or continent He (1371-1433) sailed from China to many places throughout South Pacific, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and distant Africa in seven epic voya