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    Unit 4: Identification: Mau Piailug, Ocean Navigator

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    Mau Piailug was a fisherman from Hawaii who was the last person alive who could navigate using only stars, wind, and sea conditions. In 1976, he led an expedition from Hawaii to Tahiti, a 2,500 mile voyage, to prove that early Polynesian settlers could have navigated between islands without modern instruments. During the month-long trip, Mau guided his crew to Tahiti without using a compass or charts, demonstrating his unique navigational skills passed down from his grandfather. The successful voyage helped prove that Hawaii's first inhabitants reached the islands by small boat navigation rather than by accident.

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    Mau Piailug was a fisherman from Hawaii who was the last person alive who could navigate using only stars, wind, and sea conditions. In 1976, he led an expedition from Hawaii to Tahiti, a 2,500 mile voyage, to prove that early Polynesian settlers could have navigated between islands without modern instruments. During the month-long trip, Mau guided his crew to Tahiti without using a compass or charts, demonstrating his unique navigational skills passed down from his grandfather. The successful voyage helped prove that Hawaii's first inhabitants reached the islands by small boat navigation rather than by accident.

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    Mau Piailug was a fisherman from Hawaii who was the last person alive who could navigate using only stars, wind, and sea conditions. In 1976, he led an expedition from Hawaii to Tahiti, a 2,500 mile voyage, to prove that early Polynesian settlers could have navigated between islands without modern instruments. During the month-long trip, Mau guided his crew to Tahiti without using a compass or charts, demonstrating his unique navigational skills passed down from his grandfather. The successful voyage helped prove that Hawaii's first inhabitants reached the islands by small boat navigation rather than by accident.

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    Reading book Hello Ielts

    UNIT 4: IDENTIFICATION
    (TRUE-FALSE-NOT GIVEN & YES-NO-NOT GIVEN)

    Exercise 1 MAU PIAILUG, OCEAN NAVIGATOR


    Mau sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti using traditional methods. In early 1976, Mau Piailug, a
    fisherman, led an expedition in which he sailed a traditional Polynesian boat across 2,500 miles
    of ocean from Hawaii to Tahiti. The Polynesian Voyaging Society had organised the expedition.
    Its purpose was to find out if seafarers in the distant past could have found their way from one
    island to theother without navigational instruments, or whether the islands had been populated
    by accident. At the time, Mau was the only man alive who knew how to navigate just by
    observing the stars, the wind and the sea.
    He had never before sailed to Tahiti, which was a long way to the south. However, he
    understood how the wind and the sea behave around islands, so he was confident he could find
    his way. The voyage took him and his crew a month to complete and he did it without a compass
    or charts.
    His grandfather began the task of teaching him how to navigate when he was still a baby. He
    showed him pools of water on the beach to teach him how the behaviour of the waves and wind
    changed in different places. Later, Mau used a circle of stones to memorise the positions of the
    stars. Each stone was laid out in the sand to represent a star. ⑤

    The voyage proved that Hawaii's first inhabitants came in small boats and navigated by reading ⑥
    the sea and the stars. Mau himself became a keen teacher, passing on his traditional secrets to
    people of other cultures so that his knowledge would not be lost. He explained the positions of
    the stars to his students, but he allowed them to write things down because he knew they would ⑦
    never be able to remember everything as he had done.

    Mr. Nguyen Duc Anh Tuan – Ms. Phan Nguyet Minh – HP Academy 44
    Reading book Hello Ielts

     Read statements 1-7 below and decide if the statements are TRUE, FALSE or NOT
    GIVEN according to information in the passage. Choose:
    TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
    FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
    NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
    1. At the time of his voyage, Mau had unique navigational skills. True
    2. Mau was familiar with the sea around Tahiti. False
    3. Mau thought it would be difficult to use a compass and charts. NG

    4. Mau's grandfather was his only teacher. NG


    5. Mau used stones to learn where each star was situated in the sky. Trul

    6. The first inhabitants of Hawaii could read and write NG


    7. Mau expected his students to memorise the positions of the stars. False

    VOCABULARY BOX
    1. Expedition.: cuộc thám hiểm
    2. Distant: xa
    3. By accident.: tình cờ
    4. Navigate: điều hướng
    5. Compass: la bàn
    6. Charts.: biểu đồ
    7. Keen: sắc xảo

    Mr. Nguyen Duc Anh Tuan – Ms. Phan Nguyet Minh – HP Academy 45

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