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Zheng He (1371-1433)

James Cook (1728-1779)

Christopher Columbus(1451–1506)

Abel Tasman(1603-1659)

Zheng He (1371-1433), the Chinese Muslim Admiral( 商船队长 )

Through his seven voyages of discovery to the West, Zheng He helped transform( 使改

变 ;)China into the superpower of his time.

Zheng He, in the year between 1405 and 1433, seven large treasure fleets sailed westwards on voyages of trade and exploration. Under the command of Zheng He, the fleets set sail from the South China Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, and then traveled further south, discovering the eastern coast of Africa. He renewed relations with the Kingdoms of

the East African coast.One African king sent the Ming emperor a royal present: two giraffes.

　　 James Cook (1728-1779) was the greatest Britain navigator. Cook enlisted( 被征募） in the Royal Navy in 1755. In 1768 he was promoted （晋升） and sent to the Pacific where he surveyed Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. On his famous second expedition (1772-75) he explored Antarctica. In 1776 he undertook his third and final voyage in which he explored the West coast of North America and tried to locate a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. On this voyage he discovered the Hawaiian Islands, and sailed up the coast of North America through the Bering Straits to the Arctic Ocean. On his return he was killed by Hawaiian islanders.

James Cook (1728-1779)

1451 Born in Genoa, the son of a wool merchant and weaver.

1476 Swims ashore when his ship is sunk in a battle off Portugal.

1476Joins his brother Bartholomew, a cartographer 制图师 , in Lisbon.

1477-1482

Makes merchant voyages as far as Iceland and Guinea几内亚 ( 西非国家 )

.1484

Conceives （设想） of “The Enterprise （冒险） of the Indies." Fails to convince King John of Portugal to back the plan.

1485 Moves to Spain.

1492on the first of several voyages to what he later called the “New World.”

Christopher Columbus 1451–1506Italian-born explorer Christopher

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TASMAN, ABEL JANSZOON (c. 1603-1659)

Abel Tasman, the greatest of Dutch （荷兰的） navigators. In the service of the Dutch East India Company from c.1632 to 1653, he made several trading and exploring voyages in the Pacific and Indian oceans. He was the first European expedition to reach the islands of Van Diemen‘s Land (now Tasmania 澳大利亚东南部的塔斯马尼亚岛 ) and New Zealand. He also mapped substantial portions （基本上的部分） of other parts of Australia. Tasman was the first European to sight New Zealand in 1642. The British explorer Captain James Cook visited the islands in 1769 and took possession of them for Great Britain.

Abel Tasman (IV)

There are seven continents in the world. They are Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, Antarctica

What were the dangers and challenges explorers in the past faced while discovering and exploring the world’s continents?

listeninglistening

1.what sort of questions do you think the reporter … sorts of… 各种各类的 a sort of… 一种 eg: you can see sorts of fishes under the sea.

do you think 是插入语 , 放在特殊问句疑问词之后 ,

其后的句子应用陈述语序 .

eg: When do you think they will come back?

2. 2. What modern means can explorers …What modern means can explorers …

means 方式 , 方法 ( 单复数同形 )

make use of …

make good/full use of…

3. In which way will a human trip to …

be similar to…. 与…相似 eg: The gold is similar to brass in color.

speakingspeaking

1. In their work, scientists meet with…… meet with… ,come across… come up with…, run into… 遇到 , 碰上 Eg: While reading, you are sure to come across some

new words.

make decisions about…. 对…作出决定 about which … 在句中引导一带有介词的

定语从句 , 修饰先行词 situations

2.2.When Captain James Cook landed When Captain James Cook landed in…in…

take possession of… 把…占为己有 , 占领 ,夺取

e.g. Don’t take possession of the wallet,though you picked it up in the street.

in the name of … 以… 名义 , 代表… e.g. The police arrested him in the name of the

law.

3.3.Instead of sending people, we can Instead of sending people, we can send robots equipped with….send robots equipped with….

instead of … 代替 , 而不是e.g. Instead of going to the museum, they finally

decided to go to the park. equipped with… “ 装备” , 过去分词短语作定

语 equip… with…., be equipped with….e.g. All the police are equipped with guns and bullets.

equipment n. 设备 , 配置 do observations for… 为… 去做观察

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