Module 1 How failure became success Listening 课件-高中英语外研版选修八.pptx

Read the advertisement. Will you reply to the advertisement? Why? ;Will you reply to the advertisement?Why? Prediction: what is the story about? ;How Failure Became Success;How Failure Became Success On 8th August, 1914,27 men who had replied 1) __________ an advertisement in The Times boarded a ship 2) ____________ (leave) for the Antarctic. The name of the ship was the Endurance and the captain was an Irishman called Ernest Shackleton. The aim of the journey was to cross the 3) ___________ (freeze) continent via the South Pole－a journey of 1,800 miles. Shackleton thought the journey would last six months. But when land came into sight, the Endurance became 4) ___________ (trap) in the ice and began to break up. Shackleton and his men watched the Endurance 5) ____________ (sink) into the icy sea. They then headed north, 6) __________ (pull) three lifeboats behind them. After six days, bad weather forced them to give up and the men set 7) __________ camp on a sheet of ice which began slowly moving across the Antarctic Circle. They survived on the ice for five months. Then, on 16th April, 1915, Shackleton saw land. It was Elephant Island－a large rock with nothing 8) ________ (grow) on it, but much better than a floating piece of ice. When they reached the island, Shackleton came up 9) _________ an idea－it was a risk but he would have to take it. He and five men would take one of the lifeboats, and sail 800 miles to South Georgia, 10) ____________ there was a permanent camp. They could then return to rescue the rest of the men. It took Shackleton 17 days 11) __________ (reach) South Georgia. 12) ________________ (fortunate) he landed on the wrong side of the island, and had to walk 36 hours over mountains to reach the camp. The whale hunters at the camp couldn’t believe their eyes 13) ____________ they saw the six men walking down from the mountains. Shackleton kept his promise. More than three months later, he returned to Elephant Island to rescue the crew he 14) __