初中英语人教版03九年级11

[06:43.64]Read and discuss
[06:48.22]Read the story about Captain Cook.
[06:52.87]Look up the new words in a dictionary.
[06:57.12]Captain James Cook was a great explorer.
[07:02.58]He was born in England in 1728.
[07:08.36]He travelled to many new places and made maps of them.
[07:14.31]In 1755 he was in Canada and made maps of its eastern coast.
[07:22.85]In 1768,the King of England
[07:28.31]made him the captain of a ship and sent him to the Pacific.
[07:34.48]In less than three years he had visited hundreds of islands
[07:41.04]and put them in the correct places on the map.
[07:46.39]Before his travelling,maps of the Pacific Ocean showed almost nothing.
[07:53.84]In 1778,Captain Cook visited the Hawaiian Islands.
[08:01.41]He was the first person from Europe to these islands,
[08:06.45]and he was also one of the first explorers
[08:11.21]who made important maps of the west coast of North America.