Reading and Vocabulary

Module 1 Deep South

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Which pole has penguins, the North Pole or the South Pole ？

an Antarctic general knowledge quiz①which month is the coldest month in Antarctica?(September, July, December )

②Generally a penguin weighs about .(1 kg, 5 kg, 50 kg )

③The China Great Wall Station was founded .(in 1985, in 1989)

④The blood colour of fishes in Antarctica is .(brown, red, blue, white) ⑤What is the southernmost point of The Earth?

Warming up

July5 kg

in 1985

white

the south pole

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A great place for researchersPara 1

Para 2 Plants and animals

Para 3

Para 4

Para 5

The Antarctic Treaty

The discovery of Antarctica

The land

Read through the text and choose a heading for each paragraph.

Finish activity 3 on students’ books (Page3).

The keys: 1. surface 2. explore 3. adapt

4. mineral 5.treaty 6. rainfall 7. gravity 8. trap 9. nuclear 10. depth 11. radioactive

adapt depth explore gravity mineral nuclear radioactive surface trap treaty rainfall

Read carefully and learnAccording to the first paragraph filling in the blanks.

a. With annual rainfall____________( 几乎为零 ), Antarctica is _________( 根据确切意义上 )a desert.

close to zerotechnically

b. Antarctic _______( 容纳 )90% of the world’s ice and most of its fresh water is _________________( 一种冰冻状态 )

holdsin a frozen state

1). close to 几乎，近于，靠近 They sat there close to each other.

2 ） technically adv. 严格地；准确地按照法律、词义等的 解释；技术上的Technically the building is a masterpiece, but few people like it.

c. Strong winds __________(drive) by gravity blow from the pole to the coastline, _________( 然而 ) other wind blow round the coast.

drivenwhile

d. There are mountains and volcanoes in Antarctica.(True or False) (T)Para 2 --3 true or falsea. Not many animals live there. b. Only two types of flowering plants are found , while there are no trees on the large continent.

c. Some forms of algae have adapted to the extreme cold.

(F)

(T)

(T)d. There are lots of white rocks in Antarctica. ( F)

e. Gases and minerals, in the form of volcanic dust trapped in the ice, can tell us a lot about what the world’s climate was like in past ages. (T)

What is the topic sentence of para.2 ?

Yet Antarctica is full of wildlife, which has adapted to its extreme conditions.

adapt ①使适应；使适合（与 to 连用） He could not adapt his way of life to the

company.

他们正在将这篇小说改编成电影。They’re trying to adapt this story for the film.

② 改造、修改 ( 为…所用 ) 改写（与 for 连用）

adapt (oneself) to … 适应 He always adapted (himself) to new sircumstances easily.

③

Translate the sentence into Chinese. Antarctica has become perhaps the most successful symbol of man’s efforts to work together for progress and peace.南极洲或许已经成为人类为了和平与发展而共同努力的最后成功的标志。

Para.4-5 true or false1. People guessed that Antarctic exited before it was

discovered.

2. The first person to land on Antarctic was British.

3. France was one of the first countries to sign the Antarctic Treaty.

4. The Treaty has three main aims.

( F)

(T)

(T)

(T)

Heading main idea

The land Antarctica is an inhospitable place to live in because it is the and the _____ continent on earth and is permanently covered with ice.

Plants and animals As a result of its extreme conditions only few types of plants can survive there, but it is_____________.

A great place for researchers

Antarctic ice and _______can give researchers lots of useful information.

The discovery of Antarctica

Antarctica was the last continent to be discovered and Carstens Borchgrevink was the first man to ___________ the Antarctic mainland.

coldest driest

full of wildlife

rocks

set foot on

A film

Homework:

1. Write down your passage about Antarctic.

2. Finish the exercises on Page92.

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