Step 1  lead in

ask the students some questions

Do you know what sport is the most fashionable, challenging and exciting in the world?(F! cycle race, challenging limits, such as bungee jumping, boxing, exploring….)

There are a variety of explorations. Can you give some examples?

(space explorations, polar explorations, desert explorations, field explorations, voyage explorations…)

Step2 talk about the pictures in the SB

l  Zheng He, in the year between 1405 and 1433, seven large treasure fleets sailed westwards on voyages of trade and exploration. Under the command of Zheng He, the fleets set sail from the South China Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, and then traveled further south, discovering the eastern coast of Africa.