Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Reading: Sailing the oceans
Teaching Aims:
1. To grasp the following important words and phrases.
2. To learn about how seamen explored the oceans and what kind of navigational instruments
were used to sailors before the seventeenth century when they were navigating the open
seas without seeing land.
Teaching Important Points:
1. To grasp the important words and phrases and use the language points correctly
Verbs: knot, simplify, update
Nouns: latitude, voyage, mercy, encyclopedia, exploration, pole, equator, horizon, seaweed,
tide, log, reference, shortcoming
Adj.&Adj.: minimum, celestial, overhead, offshore, outward, secure, nautical, magnetic, random, awkward, precise, portable, alongside
Phrases: at the mercy of, nautical mile
