zheng he and his seven voyages exercise 1key words
in addition to, fleet, voyage, supply, sink, exploration
■ ask students what they know about zheng he. encourage them to say as much as possible.
■ look at the key words with the students and see if students already know some of them. do not pre-teach any new words but encourage them to guess the meanings while reading the text.
■ ask students to refer to the notes while reading so that they can understand the passage better.
■ match the key words with the definitions. answers
1 in addition to 2 supply 3 voyage 4 fleet 5 exploration
6 sink
exercise 2
■ students work in pairs reading the text and answering the questions. answers
1 zheng he was one of china's most famous sailors. he was ordered by zhu di to sail to faraway count