文档介绍：Unit 2
Sailing Round the World
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Topic:
What do you think of sailing on the sea?
Birthplace:
Devon德文郡, Britain
Francis Chichester (1901 – 1972)
— English adventurer
Achievements:
As a young man, he went to New Zealand to work as a miner, salesman and land agent.
In 1929, he made a solo flight to Australia in a biplane双翼飞机.
In 1960, he won the first solo transatlantic ocean race sailing from Plymouth, England to New York City in 40 days.
In 1931, he made the first eastward flight across Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia.
Tasman塔斯曼 sea
Plymouth普利茅斯 to New York
In 1966-1967, he sailed around the world alone in a 55-foot sailing yacht, the longest passage made by a small sailing vessel without a port of call停靠港.
yacht帆船
In 1967, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Knights were the highest class of fighting men in Europe during the Middle Ages. There were other classes of fighting men, such as the lowly foot soldiers. The great heroes of the time, both in story and in fact, were knights.
Knighthood Ceremony
The king or Queen takes the sword of the person being honored or borrows one from someone present at the ceremony. The person about to be knighted kneels on one knee and bows his head. The King or Queen touches with the sword first the left shoulder of the person, then the right shoulder, and finally the top of the bowed head.
1. Columbus (1451-1506) — Italian explorer
2. Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521)— Portuguese navigator
3. Zheng He (1371-1433) — Chinese explorer and diplomat外交官
4. Francis Drake (1543 - 1596) — English navigator and explorer
Some other famous adventurers:
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Chichester’s decision to sail round the world single-handed
Chichester’s plishment of his great voyage
the significance of his great voyage --- giving man new pride
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