Step1 Revision

Check the Ss’ homework.

Step2 Reading (scanning) Ask the Ss to find more information about Cook’s expedition in 1769

  PLACE              TIME FOR STAYING       WHAT THEY DID

1.Tahiti                 3 happy months           watch the planet Venus crossing in

                                              front of the sun

2. New Zealand      6 months   charted the coasts of the 2 islands

3. Australia                        mapped the east coast/ landed in Botany

                                               Bay/found Australia to be an

                                               Astonishing land            

4.between the mainland and the    struck a coral bed, notdied/saved

Great Barrier Reef           themselves

5. island of Java                                   passed close by….

6. the southern point of Africa                        in July 1771,succeeded in…

Step3:language points:

1．  watch sb doing :观看某人正在做某事。

They were able to watch the planet Venus crossing in front of the sun.

2．Head south: head:名词活用为动词，是现代英语的一个潮流。比如本课中:land safely, name sb……

3. celebrate和 congratulate

celebrate ＂庆祝＂．如：celebrate a victory, 名词是 celebration. In celebration of , hold a celebration.  congratulate “祝贺＂其用法是congratulate sb. on/upon sth. 名词常用复数形式congratulations.例如：The whole country celebrated Cook’s return.

4.jump about:向四处跳，

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