Grade 8 BTS U 10 L 4 Exploring the sea

Grade 8 BTS U 10 L 4 Exploring the sea

CB p 166/ WB p 140

Warm-Up:

https://www.youtube.

com/

watch?v=pW67jy39ETw

• Have you ever been sailing?

• How big the boat was?

• Where did you go? What did you do?

Objectives: Students will be able to:

• To discuss key vocabulary and first sentence of a text as preparation for reading; to discuss the most important information in a text. 

• To identify new information in a text; to identify the meaning of new lexis.

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Reading:

• Do you know what a navigator is? Or a scholar? 

• Look at the dictionary entries to find out.

Open Ended

Why do you think navigation was important for travellers in the past?

Open Ended

Read the !rst sentence of the text The Lion of the Seas. What do you know already about Ibn Majid? Share your knowledge with the class.

Open Ended

Read the text.

1 In your opinion, what made Ibn Majid a famous Arab navigator and scholar?

Workbook page 140

Find words and phrases in bold in the text The Lion of the Seas that mean the following:

Multiple Choice

1 areas of water next to the land where ships can stop

• coasts

• published

• harbours

Multiple Choice

2 areas of land along the edge of a sea

• astronomy

• coasts

• verses

Multiple Choice

3- as well as

• along with

• published

• exploring

Multiple Choice

4- wrote down what he had learned

• astronomy

• recorded his experiences

• along with

Multiple Choice

5- had a book printed and sold

• verses

• harbours

• published

Multiple Choice

6- travelling around an area to learn about it

• astronomy

• exploring

• verses

Multiple Choice

7- The study of stars and planets

• coasts

• verses

• astronomy

Multiple Choice

8- groups of words or sentences that form one section of a poem

• verses

• along with

• coasts

Open Ended

WB p 40

Ibn Majid was a man of action and thought. Find examples of his action and thought in the text

Poll

Rate your understanding of today's learning goals:(LMS/ Quizizz)

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