Read the table with quick facts from biography of the most important geographic explorers

Who is Who?

The teacher reads the table and gives an explorator’s description to every one student. Then the teacher calls the nouns and the student recognizes himself.

1. 
   Read the table with quick facts from biography of the most important geographic explorers.
   

NAME	Christopher Columbus
OCCUPATION	Explorer
BIRTH DATE	c. October 31, 1451
DEATH DATE	May 20, 1506
PLACE OF BIRTH	Genoa, Italy
PLACE OF DEATH	Valladolid, Spain
AKA	Cristoforo Colombo - Cristóbal Colón

NAME	Ferdinand Magellan
OCCUPATION	Explorer
BIRTH DATE	c. 1480
DEATH DATE	April 27, 1521
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sabrosa or Porto, Portugal
PLACE OF DEATH	Mactan, Philippines
AKA	Fernando /Hernando de Magallanes Fernão de Magalhães

NAME	Giovanni da Verrazano
OCCUPATION	Explorer
BIRTH DATE	c. 1485
DEATH DATE	1528
PLACE OF BIRTH	Val di Greve, Italy
PLACE OF DEATH	Lesser Antilles

NAME	Francisco Pizarro
OCCUPATION	Explorer
BIRTH DATE	c. 1476
DEATH DATE	June 26, 1541
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trujillo, Spain
PLACE OF DEATH	Lima, Peru

NAME	Francis Drake
OCCUPATION	Explorer
BIRTH DATE	c. 1540
DEATH DATE	January 28, 1596
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tavistock, England
PLACE OF DEATH	Portobelo, Panama
FULL NAME	Sir Francis Drake

NAME	Amerigo Vespucci
OCCUPATION	Explorer
BIRTH DATE	c. 1451
DEATH DATE	c. 1512
PLACE OF BIRTH	Florence, Italy
PLACE OF DEATH	Seville, Spain
AKA	America’s namesake
NICKNAME	"Pickle Dealer"
FULL NAME	Amerigo Vespucci

2. 
   Now, find the simple description that refers to one or other of them.
   

1. While in the service of Spain, the Portuguese explorer XXX led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe.


2. America was named after XXX, a Florentine navigator and explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World.


3. Famed Italian explorer XXX discovered the "New World" of the Americas on an expedition sponsored by King Ferdinand of Spain; he departed from Palos in 1492.


4. XXX was an Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor in 1524. The XXX – Narrows Bridge in New York was named after him.


5. Spanish explorer and conquistador XXX helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.


6. English admiral XXX circumnavigated the globe from 1577-1580, helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588 and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan era.

3. 
   Now, use the information in the table for build a time line. Write in right order the journeys date and correspondent explorers' name.
   

4. 
   Look at the image of a caravel and name each part with the specific term chosen from the list below. Write the right word in the spaces.
   

ANCHOR – FLAG – HULL – KEEL - MAIN MAST – RUDDER - SAIL

Anchor: a heavy device attached by a cable to a vessel and cast overboard to keep the vessel from drifting by becoming secured to the bottom.

Flag: a piece of cloth, esp. bunting, often attached to a pole or staff, decorated with a design and used as an emblem, symbol, or standard or as a means of signalling

Hull: the hollow lowermost portion of a ship.

Keel: the base at the bottom of the hull of a boat, usually a long metal or wooden bar, that extends from the back to the front and from which the sides are built

Main mast: the principal mast on a sailing ship.

Rudder: a vertical blade at the rear of a ship or plane that can be turned to control direction

Sail: a piece of canvas (triangular or square) on a ship to catch the wind and propel the vessel

5. 
   Look at this image of a caravel and name each part with the specific term chosen of vessel and nouns parts of it.
   

Glossary:
Rudder: a vertical blade at the rear of a ship or plane that can be turned to control direction.

Captain’s cabin: a captain’s room in the ship

Quarterdeck: the part of the deck of a vessel from midship to the stern.

Mizzen: sail

Main mast: the principal mast on a sailing ship.

Foremast: the mast nearest the bow of a vessel.

Fighting top: one of the gun platforms on the lower masts of sailing men-of-war, used in attacking the crew of an enemy ship with swivel guns and muskets

Jib boom: a spar forming a continuation of a bowsprit.

Bowsprit: spar projecting from the upper end of the bow of a sailing vessel, for holding the tacks of various jibs or stays and often supporting a jib boom

Fo’c’sle: a structure sticking up at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel.

Figurehead

Forepeak

Beak

Gun port

Chains: in the chains, standing outboard 

Shrouds: any of the ropes or wires attached to the head of a ship's mast to keep it from swaying.