【人教课标选修9】Unit 2 Sailing the oceans

5.      Setting out on a long journey by sea with unskilled sailors would be dangerous especially if there were no modern navigational instruments .

Exercise2  Find the words form the reading passage that are the opposite of these compound words .

Nowhere  anywhere       download  upload       outward      inward

Reliable  unreliable        seaweed   land flower   shortcoming  strong point

Exercise3:

Complete the following paragraph with the words below .

   precise   outward   nowhere   awkward    reference   seaweed

   accelerate mercy     randomly  voyage      alongside   approximate

Samuel the sailor was extremely good at plotting his course using the stars a ________.

One day he was determined to set out on a ________across an unknown sea to an unknown continent . He set out with his instruments so he would not be at the _________ Of the sea . He found on his _______journey a rocky island . It seemed to be covered in nests. Suddenly, as Samuel looked , an enormous bird swooped down and picked him up as if he were a/an ______ parcel . It ______its speed and rose straight up into the air so as to reach the _______place on the rocks where its nest lay. Once there, it shook itself and threw Samuel in the ________ direction of the nest . There seemed to be ______to hide but then he noticed lots of ______ on his left and quickly hid under it . The bird landed nearby and pecked ______ at the rocks . Samuel rolled over swiftly and found himself at the edge of the cliff . He looked down slowly with a beating heart. Below him was his boat lying ______the shore! “How lucky I am!” Samuel thought to himself. He then gave a mighty leap and landed in it. Once inside he could safely sail away.

Period four : Reading  speaking and writing