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Unit 2

Sailing the oceans ----Teaching Design Period 3: A lesson plan for Using Language THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL Aims To help students read the passage THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL To help students use the language by reading, listening, and speaking Procedures I. Warming up by learning something about William Bligh William Bligh

in 1814Vice Admiral of the Blue William Bligh, FRS (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known for the famous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMAV (His Majesty's Armed Vessel) Bounty and the remarkable voyage he made to Timor on the Bounty's launch after being set adrift by the mutineers. Many years after the Bounty mutiny he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a brief to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps. He had some success in his task but quickly faced opposition which culminated in the Rum Rebellion led by John Macarthur.

Although William Bligh was certainly not the vicious man portrayed in popular fiction, some claim his over-sensitivity and acid tongue damaged what would have otherwise been a distinguished career. II. Reading for forms

Read the text THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL i. Fast reading

Scan the passage and get the main idea of the passage.

The passage introduces what kind of difficulties they had faced and what they did to overcome the difficulties during the 40-day journey. ii.Careful reading

Para1

Dilemma When:

in 1789 Where:

the Pacific Ocean Who: I, Captain Bligh and others What: sailed about 4000 miles across- Why: “take over”

How: by a compass and a quadrant

What was the dilemma? What was my decision? Why? Para2

Routine Captain’ task :

measure

set

make sure

keep

Our

task:

read

work out

Para 3& 4

Food/Starvation

What difficulties did we met?

What did Captain Bligh do under such situation? Para5

Survival What was our feeling when we got to Timor? Use your own words and give me the evidence in this paragraph. iii. “True” or “False”

1.

I joined the captain in the small boat because I think the journey to be challengeable. 2.

The only instruments the captain was allowed to take were a compass and a quadrant. 3.

We couldn't get a correct reading from the quadrant as the weather was bad. 4.

Working out our position took us a great deal of time which made us worried. 5.

The extreme lack of water was the hardest to cope with. 6.

The captain was determined not to give up although he is extremely weak. 7.

After 30 days, we arrived in Timor. Answers: FTFFTTF III. Discussion When Captain Bligh returned home he was treated as a hero. It was discussed whether he should receive a special medal or not. Get into groups of four and then show your own opinion.