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EXPLORERS STUDENTS’ NOTES

A. DISCUSSION 1. If you had been an explorer in the 19

th century, what part of the world would you

most like to have explored?

2. If you could have taken only 5 items with you, what items would you have taken?

Explain your choices.

B. QUIZ 1. Who discovered Australia?

2. Who discovered America?

3. Who discovered the Victoria Falls?

4. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?

5. What did Amelia Earhart do?

6. What did Marco Polo discover?

7. What is Sir Edmund Hillary famous for?

8. What were the Spanish explorers of the America’s called?

C. VOCABULARY 1. conical structures

2. bound

3. tightly woven reeds

4. to summon

5. courtiers

6. novelty

7. thatch

8. immense

9. bark

10. imminent

11. turn on your heel

12. stalk off

13. to implore

14. numerous

15. squatting

16. tactlessness

17. glee

18. ambivalence

19. fortnight

20. flatter

EXPLORERS STUDENTS’ NOTES

EXPLORERS STUDENTS’ NOTES

Ref: THE WEEK, page 56 and 57, 10 December 2011

EXPLORERS TEACHER’S NOTES

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A. WARMER Ask the students the following questions:

1. If you had been an explorer in the 19th

century, what part of the world would you

most like to have explored?

2. If you could have taken only 5 items with you, what items would you have taken?

Explain your choices.

B. QUIZ Get the students to do the following quiz. Either as a competition or through discussion

with very small classes or individuals.

1. Who discovered Australia? Captain Cook

2. Who discovered America? Christopher Columbus

3. Who discovered the Victoria Falls? David Livingstone

4. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole? Roald Amundson (1911)

5. What did Amelia Earhart do? She was the first woman to fly over the Atlantic

6. What did Marco Polo discover? He is credited with discovering the Orient

7. What is Sir Edmund Hillary famous for? Being the first climber to reach the summit

of Mount Everest

8. What were the Spanish explorers of the America’s called? Conquistadors

C. VOCABULARY Go through the words with the students. They appear in the same sequence in the story

they are about to read. Make sure they understand all the words. Explain to them that

they are about to read a story about an explorer who arrives at an African village for the

first time (the villagers have never seen a European before). They need to imagine what

happens, and tell the story, using the words in the same sequence as they appear. The

first student starts the story by using the first word, the second student continues the

story with the second word etc. etc.

D. READING Get the students to read the text. If you want to make the task more challenging for

them, then cut up the article into paragraphs and get them to put them into the correct

order.

E. ROLE PLAY WITH VOCAB REVISION Write the vocabulary onto small pieces of paper and place them face down on the table.

Get the students to do a role play of an explorer arriving in an African village for the first

time (the villagers conveniently know English), but in the dialogue each student has to

pick up a vocabulary word and use it.