Use the information from the listening to explain these sailing strategies 1. Vikings used to prefer to sail following the coastline so they could check that they were on the correct route 2. Vikings used birds, and natural features like mountains to direct their ships
Use the information from the listening to explain these sailing strategies. 1. Vikings used to prefer to sail following the coastline so they could check that they were on the correct route. 2. Vikings used birds, and natural features like mountains, to direct their ships
LISTENING TEXT
LISTENING TEXT
NAVIGATIONAL SECRETS Wang Ming(wm) has come to the Maritime museum in greenwich to talk to the naval historian dr smith DS
NAVIGATIONAL SECRETS Wang Ming (WM) has come to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich to talk to the naval historian Dr Smith (DS)
WM: Thank you so much for talking to me. Please can you tell me how sailors managed before navigational instruments or satellites were invented? DS: of course. At first if there was no land nearby the seamen used the sky to find their way. They looked
WM: Thank you so much for talking to me. Please can you tell me how sailors managed before navigational instruments or satellites were invented? DS: Of course. At first if there was no land nearby the seamen used the sky to find their way. They looked
at the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night. But very soon they began to develop local maps. About 5,000 years ago sailors from phoenicia in north africa used simple maps to guide their ships around the Mediterranean Sea. They were the best traders of their day
at the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night. But very soon they began to develop local maps. About 5,000 years ago sailors from Phoenicia in North Africa used simple maps to guide their ships around the Mediterranean Sea. They were the best traders of their day