Sb: The text may include the background of the Vikings' voyages and their experiences on sea.

Sc: The text may include the meaning of the voyages in the last part.

T: Your answers are possible and you all did good jobs in guessing the structure of the text. Next I will give you the structures and you should judge which structure may be the possible structure of the text.

Let the Ss to choose the structure and give reasons.

Structure A:

Structure Content Opening paragraph Introduction Developing paragraph Record of major events Conclusion paragraph Meaning of the voyages Structure B:

Structure Content Opening paragraph Characters and background Developing paragraph Experiences Conclusion paragraph Ending Sa: I think structure A is possible, because the text is about historical records and it may follow a structure of this kind of reading material.

Sb: I agree with Sa and I think structure B is a structure of a personal story.

Activity four: Predict the purpose of the author

T: Guess what the writer's purpose of writing is by using the multiple choices.

Help the Ss guess the possible purpose of the text.

Question: What is the purpose of the text?

　A. To inform people of an interesting discovery.

　B. To tell people some interesting experiences.

　C. To tell people some early historical records.

Key: C