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　　Unit 2 Sailing the oceans
　　I. 单元教学目标
　　技能目标Goals
　　Talt early navigation
　　Talt discovery and exploration of an unknown land
　　Learn about some famous navigators and explorers
　　Learn to express the cause and effect
　　Learn to use the Predicate
　　Write a report about a navigator or an adventurous story
　　Ⅱ.目标语言
　　词
　　汇 voyage mercy encyclopedia alongside exploration minimum celestial pole equator horizon overhead seaweed nowhere offshore accelerate outward tide secure log tiagnetic random awkward reference precise simplify portable shorting update tendency reliable swoop parcel peck cliff expedition pulsory survival incident departure crew deposit dilemma drawbacstine reckon reckoning starvation psychology psychologically tension gradual gradually foresee thirst tear hardship jaw bacnd roar
　　at the mercy of nautiile set loose jaws of death
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　　能
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　　式 Cause & effect
　　Why are you...? How could you...?
　　Why did you...? Because of....
　　It was because.... The reason is that....
　　As he.... Since she....
　　Now that.... Therefore,...
　　He was due to.... It is ..., so I’m afraid....
　　That’s why.... He.... so he is ill with fever after the voyage.
　　语
　　法 复习谓语(The Predicate)
　　So how did they navigate so well?
　　As you can see from the map we kept to straight course pretty well.
　　The tension in the boat got worse as the supply of food and water gradually disappear
　　So aplished navigators were able to use it to plot their position.
　　Captain Cook had led three great Pacific voyages during his life.
　　I’ll go and get ready to begin work.
　　重
　　点
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　　子 1. You may well wonder…(p12)
　　2. …show that they were not at the mercy of the sea even though…(p12)
　　3. Sea birds could be used to show the way to land when it was nowhere to be seen. (p12)
　　4. There was no seethod of measuring longitude until the 17th century when the British solved this theoretical problem. (p13)
　　5. Its shorting was that it still used the moving ship as one of the fixed points of reference. (p13)
　　6. I am proud to have sailed with Captain Bligh on his journey of…(p17)
　　7. You could not imagine a more disturbing sight than what we looked like when arriving in Timor over forty days after being set loose in…(p17)