Unit 9 Captain Scott Antarctica

9 Captain Scott and Antarctica
Before you watch

1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
1 Which famous explorers do you know?
2 Where were they from and where did they go?
3 How did they travel?
Comprehension check
2 ⊲ Watch the DVD clip. Are the sentences true or false?
1 Robert Falcon Scott had been an explorer for many years when he became captain of the Discovery. true / false
2 It took over a year to travel to the Antarctic. true / false
3 When they arrived in Antarctica, they built a hut. true / false
4 They lived on the ship for many months. true / false
5 Captain Scott was the first man to reach the South Pole. true / false
3 ⊲ Watch again. Choose the correct words.

1 Scott’s ship, the RSS Discovery, was made of metal / wood.
2 The ship sailed south and east / west to get to the Antarctic.
3 They built their hut on the shore / a hillside.
4 The crew played games / music on the ship when they were bored.
5 In 1910, Scott died going to / returning from the South Pole.
4 ⊲ Watch again. Number the events (A–H) in the order that they happened.
A The Discovery set off from the UK.
B Two ships arrived to help free the Discovery.
C The Discovery arrived on the Antarctic coast.
D Scott was working in the navy.
E Scott and two others decided to try and walk to the South Pole.
F Scott joined the expedition to the Antarctic.
G The Discovery stopped in New Zealand.
H The ice froze around the ship.
Round up
5 SPEAKING Work in groups. Answer the questions.
Would you like to be an explorer? Why? / Why not? If so, which part of the world would you most like to visit? Why?
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Vocabulary
6 RECYCLE Match the two halves of the sentences.
1 The rescue ship managed a to carry out their research while on board.
2 The engines stopped b leave the ship and look for food.
3 The crew offered c working when they caught fire.
4 The crew ended up d to work longer to save the ship.
5 The scientists continued e to find all the passengers and crew.
6 The captain agreed to f staying a lot longer than they thought.
7 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words below.
expeditions on board on foot sailed trek voyage
Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle

In 1831, Charles Darwin set off on a round-the-world 1 on the ship the HMS Beagle. The ship
2
from Portsmouth in England across the Atlantic Ocean to South America. Life 3
the ship was sometimes difficult, but Darwin spent a lot of time reading and researching. When they arrived
4
in South America, Darwin set off on a number of small 5 to find new plants and
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animals. Sometimes he and his team would for days through rainforests to look for new and
interesting species. After five years away, Darwin and the crew sailed home. He had collected thousands of
new species and learned a lot about the world, which would help him develop his theory of evolution.
Extension
8 Work in groups. Find out about the life of a modern-day explorer or adventurer and make a poster
about them. Draw a map of a journey they took, and find some photos of places that they visited.
Include the following:
• who they are, where they’re from and how they got interested in exploring
• where they went and how they travelled
• what they found or how their lives were changed by the journey
9 Present your poster to the class. Use the key phrases for ordering your presentation.
Ordering your presentation

I’d like to start by …
First of all, …
Secondly, …
Let’s look now at …
Now we’ll move on to …
Finally, …
To finish up, …
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9 DVD teacher’s notes
DVD clip summary

The DVD clip is about the expedition to the Antarctic led by Captain Scott in 1902.
Background
Robert Falcon Scott was born in 1868 in the naval town of Devonport, on the south-west coast of England. He
joined the navy as a cadet when he was just thirteen years old, and served on various Royal Navy ships for the
next twenty years. In 1901, at the age of 33, he was given the job by the Royal Geographical Society of captaining
the RRS Discovery on a three-year expedition to the Antarctic. The expedition went further south than anyone had
been previously, and when Scott returned to Britain he became a national hero. After this, Scott became more
interested in the Antarctic, and in 1910 he led a new expedition to reach the South Pole. When they arrived in
Antarctica, the teams set out with sledges, ponies and dogs, but due to the terrible weather conditions, the ponies
couldn’t cope and eventually the dog teams turned back. Scott and four of his men eventually reached the pole on
foot, but were beaten there by a Norwegian party. Sadly, all five of the men died on the 1,500 km return journey.
Before you watch

Exercise 1
• Read the questions with the class and elicit answers from individual students. Encourage the students to guess the
answers they do not already know and use their suggestions to start a class discussion.
• Answers: Students’ own answers
Comprehension check
Exercise 2
• Pre-watching: Go through the questions with the students.
• ⊲ Play the whole DVD clip. The students choose the correct answers. Check their answers.
• Answers: 1 false 2 false 3 true 4 true 5 false
Exercise 3
• Pre-watching: Ask the students to read the questions and to try and remember what they saw and heard in the
DVD clip.
• ⊲ Play the DVD clip to check the answers.
• Answers: 1 wood 2 east 3 the shore 4 games 5 returning from
Exercise 4
• Pre-watching: Ask the students to try and put the events in the correct order before they watch the DVD clip again.
• Weaker classes: Play the DVD clip first and pause after each answer.
• ⊲ Play the DVD clip to check the answers.
• Answers: 1 D 2 F 3 A 4 G 5 C 6 H 7 E 8 B
Round up
Exercise 5
• Put the students in groups. Give them a few minutes to discuss the questions.
• Answers: Students’ own answers
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Vocabulary
Exercise 6
• The students read both halves of the sentences and try and match them.
• Weaker classes: Help the students match the verbs and prepositions before they match the sentences.
• Answers: 1 e 2 c 3 d 4 f 5 a 6 b
Exercise 7
• Ask the students to read through the text first, then complete the sentences. With a weaker class, you could elicit
the meanings of the words first.
• Answers: 1 voyage 2 sailed 3 on board 4 on foot 5 expeditions 6 trek
Extension
Exercises 8
• Materials needed: Large pieces of paper, pens, scissors, glue, computers with internet access, printer
• Preparation: Put the students in groups of three. Tell them that they are going to make a poster about a
modern-day explorer and draw a map of a journey they took.
• Language: Elicit how to start and end a presentation. Then focus on the key phrases.
• Activity: Give the students 5–8 minutes to use the internet to find out about an explorer. Then give them
another 5 minutes to prepare their presentation and draw their poster, making sure they include all the
information in the task. Then ask them to present their poster to the class.
• Extension: After all the groups have presented, ask the students to discuss which explorer they think is
the bravest or most interesting. For homework, you could ask them to imagine they are that explorer and
to write an account of their journey.
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9 DVD script
Captain Scott and Antarctica

By the end of the Victorian era, British explorers had travelled across every continent
in the world except one: Antarctica.
The first major expedition to the Antarctic was on the RRS Discovery in 1901 and it
was led by an English explorer called Robert Falcon Scott. Scott was an ambitious
young naval officer. In 1899, he heard about an expedition to the Antarctic and quickly
offered to go. He stopped working as a naval officer and became captain of the
Discovery.
The RRS Discovery was built in the Scottish city of Dundee, a city famous for its
shipbuilding heritage. After a lifetime of service, the ship is now a popular tourist
attraction in its hometown. It was powered by both steam and sails and was
designed to sail through the icy waters of the Antarctic.
Scott’s team included naval officers – including another famous explorer, Ernest
Shackleton – and scientists, who wanted to learn more about the area’s plants and
wildlife.
On 6 August 1901, the Discovery left the UK. After a five month voyage via Cape Town
and Lyttelton Harbour in New Zealand, the ship arrived on the coast of Antarctica on
8 February 1902. The crew immediately set up camp, building a large hut which is still
there today. This is where they stored their supplies while they lived on the ship.
The crew continued to live on board as the Antarctic ice froze around the ship. Scott
expected this to happen, but it meant that nobody could leave and they ended up
staying a lot longer than predicted. If the ship hadn’t been designed for Antarctic
exploration, it probably would have broken, but fortunately it didn’t. However, the
crew had to wait for the ice to melt. They stayed on board for months, carrying out
research and, when they were bored, playing games.
Eventually, Scott suggested they leave the ship and venture south. He wanted to try
to reach the South Pole on foot. Two others, Edward Wilson and Ernest Shackleton,
agreed to join him. They trekked through storms and blizzards, but they didn’t reach
their destination. This may have been a good thing. If they had reached the South
Pole, they might not have had enough supplies to get back.
But they survived. And when they returned to camp, two relief ships had arrived, and
eventually the crew managed to free the Discovery using dynamite. On 10 September,
the ship arrived back in London and Captain Scott became a national hero.
But his desire to reach the South Pole grew over the years, and in 1910 he left again
for the Antarctic. Sadly, his mission ended in failure. He was beaten to the Pole by the
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, and Scott and his men tragically died on the
return journey.
However, if he hadn’t returned to the South Pole, he wouldn’t have become Scott of
the Antarctic, one of the most famous British heroes of the 20th century.
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Before you watch

3 ⊲ Watch again. Choose the correct words.

Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle

Ordering your presentation

DVD clip summary

Before you watch

Captain Scott and Antarctica

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