2017-2018学年人教版高中英语选修9课件：Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Learning about language（共26张PPT） .pptVIP

* * 1. Replace the words underlined by ones of similar meaning from the reading passage. 1) Seeing the dark clouds above him, George hurried for home. 2) Sailing a boat alone far away from the shore made Flora’s parents worry about her safety. overhead offshore 3) Clare, would you please put your bicycle next to the others in the shed? 4) “Why don’t you plot a more simple route with the smallest number of stops?” asked Mary. 5) Setting out on a long journey by sea with unskilled sailors would be dangerous especially if there were no modern navigational instruments. alongside simplified minimum voyage seamen 2. Find the words from the reading passage that are the opposite of these compound words. _________ anywhere _________ upload _________ inward _______ unreliable _________ land flower ____________ strong point nowhere download outward reliable seaweed shortcoming 3. Write down the words you know, which are related to navigation and sea. navigate, navigational (instruments: compass, bearing, circle, astrolabe, quadrant, sextant), sail, sailor, voyage, latitude, longitude, equator, horizon, captain, sailor, land, island, set sail, nautical middles, explore, exploration, … Navigation seaman, seaweed, seafood, shore, offshore, onshore, beach, beach-ball, seabed, sea-bird, seagull, sea shell, seaside, sea water, seasick, coast, coastline, coastal, tide, wave, current … Sea 4. Complete the following paragraph with the words below. precise outward nowhere awkward reference seaweed accelerate mercy randomly voyage alongside approximate Samuel the sailor was extremely good at plotting his course using the stars as a _________. One day he was determined to set out on a _______ across an unknown sea to an unknown continent. He set out with his instruments so he would not be at the ______ of the sea. He found on his ________ journey a rocky island. It seemed to be covered in nests. reference voyage