Crossing Limits

1
SEFC-BOOK III
Unit 2
Crossing Limits
Made by Yang Li
2
Reaching Out Across the Ocean
3
Guess How many continents and oceans are therein
the world?What are they?
4
(No Transcript)
5
Arctic ocean
Pacific ocean
Atlantic ocean
Pacific ocean
Indian ocean
6
Zheng He, a great navigator of the Ming Dynasty
(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.
7
James Cook (1728-1779) was the greatest Britain
navigator. Cook enlisted in the Royal Navy
in 1755. In 1768 he was promoted and sent by
England to explore the Pacific Ocean where he
surveyed Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. On
his famous 2nd expedition (1772-75) he explored
Antarctica. In 1776 in his third and final
voyage , he explored the West coast of North
America and discovered the Hawaiian Islands.
8
Christopher Columbus
Italian-born explorer Christopher Columbus
broke with tradition in 1492, sailing west in an
attempt to
find a shorter route to India and China. On
August 3rd, 1492, Columbus departed from Palos
de la Frontera, Spain, on the first of several
voyages to what he later called the New World.
9
Abel Tasman (1603 1659)
Holland (Dutch) The first European to discover
New Zealand
10
What do you know about the Silk Road?
11
??????
12
Reading
Now lets go to read the text REACHING OUT ACROSS
THE OCEAN. First please read it quickly,
then do the following exercise.
13
Judge the following sentences True or False.

• Brave merchants were not the real first
  explorers of the Western Ocean.
• 2. Accurate maps of the countries around
• the Indian Ocean were made before the
• fifteenth century.
• 3. In the years between 1405 and 1433 ,
• Zheng He sailed westwards only on
• voyages of exploration.
• 4. Zheng He invited African countries to
• send ambassadors to China.

F
( )
F
( )
F
( )
T
( )
14
Reading and underlining
Task
Now read the text again and get the topic
sentence or main idea of each paragraph.
15
Main idea of each paragraph
Paragraph 1 Trade and curiosity have often
formed the foundation for mankinds
greatest endeavor. Paragraph 2 Silk from China
found its way over land along the Silk Road
to India. Paragraph 3 The Swahili kingdoms and
the islands off the African coast developed
into the worlds trading center. Paragraph
4 The Arabic contacts to the African coast led
to the next meeting between black people and
a Chinese.
16
Main idea of each paragraph
Paragraph 5 In the eleventh century, the
Africans made several voyages to the court
of the Song Dynasty. Paragraph 6 The
contacts between China and Africa had led to
the awareness of each others existence. Paragraph
7 Under the command of Zheng He, the fleets set
sail to discover the eastern coast of
Africa. Paragraph 8 Zheng He renewed relations
with the kingdoms of the East African
coast. Paragraph 9 After 1433, the exploration
by Zheng He was stopped.
17
Exercise 3 on P13 Find information about
contacts between China and Africa. Fill in the
chart.
Han Dynasty
Gan Ying
Over land
Rhinoceros horns
18
From Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty
Ivory, Rhinoceros horns, spices, shells,
animal skins, sugar
19
Over land and by boat
Tang Dynasty
Du Huan
A bronze statue of a lion
Song Dynasty
By sea
20
Zebras, giraffes, Ivory, Rhinoceros horns,
shells
Ming Dynasty
By sea
Zheng He
21
Exercise 4 on P14
v
v
v
v
v
22
Homework
Underline the useful expressions and sentence
patterns in the text and finish off the rest
exercises in the text.
23
Useful expressions from REACHING OUT ACROSS THE
OCEAN
from the foundation for a great
puzzle inspire to do sth. search for sea
routes to from the earliest times find
ones way over land in exchange for trade
along the coasts meet with hear about
return to with over the next few years off
the coast develop into trade to sb. meet
between and take prisoner wander
through give information on make voyages
to reach out to the contacts between and