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The Titanic

**Do you know the true facts of the TITANIC? ** // 1. Where was the ship built? // a. Southampton b. New York c. Belfast // 2. What was the name of the Company operating the ship? // a. Blue Star Line b. Red Star Line c. White Star Line // 3. What was the itinerary of the ship? // a. Southampton-New York b. Southampton-Washington c. Dover- New York // 4. Where did it stop before crossing the Atlantic? // a. Dover and Calais b. Plymouth and Cherbourg c. Cherbourg and Queenstown(Ir.) // 5. How many people were on board? // a. 2,223 b. 2,643 c. 1,998 // 6. What time of the night did the Titanic hit the iceberg? // a. midnight b. 11:40 PM c. 2:20 AM // 7. When did the Titanic sink? // a. April 14th 1912, at 11:40 PM b. April 18th 1912, at noon c. April 15th 1912, at 2:20 AM // 8. How many watertight compartments did the ship have? // a. 16 b. 20 c. 14 // 9. How many chimneys did the ship have? // a. 3 b. 4 c. 6 // 10. Who was the richest man on board? // a. Bruce Ismay b. Ben Guggenheim c. John Jacob Astor // 11. How many honeymoon couples were on board? // a. 3 b. 13 c. 25 // 12. Who was the captain? Did he live? // a. Captain Smith; no b. Captain Andrews; yes. c. Captain Brown; no. // 13. How much did a 1st class ticket cost? // a. $4,350 b. $1,000 c. $300 // 14. How many people died in the tragedy? // a. 1,412 b. 1,764 c. 1,514 // 15. When was the wreck of the Titanic discovered? // a. 1975 b. 1985 c. 1989 // 16. How deep is it? // a. 2,748 m b. 2,997 m c. 3,784 m

**New 3D pictures of Titanic released ** **Listen and complete: media type="file" key="100902-titanic.mp3" width="240" height="20" ** - the Titanic, the world’s most famous shipwreck, have been released. The pictures show the ship - than previously thought. They were taken by a research team from Premier Exhibitions, and come 25 years after. Expedition spokesman Chris Davino said of the project: What we have witnessed, so far, has been --- .” His team’s goal is to document as much of the Titanic as possible in 3D so they can “virtually raise” the ship. This --, people will be able to take a 3D tour of it. Mr Davino encouraged people to follow the very latest pictures - company’s website [|www.expeditiontitanic.com]. The wreck of the Titanic - of the Atlantic Ocean near Newfoundland for 98 years. The luxury liner - after hitting an iceberg on its way from England to New York. More than 1,500 passengers --- 710 survived, mainly women and children. It was the largest passenger steamship ever built unsinkable. Striking the iceberg caused it to split in two; the bow and stern sections are now on the ocean floor 600 metres apart. The expedition team is --- to photograph as much as it can before the Titanic collapses. Much of the ship has corroded and will one day collapse, perhaps ---.

**1. SYNONYM MATCH: ** Match the following synonyms from the article. 1. amazing **a. journey**
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2 previously **b. unbelievable** 3. witnessed **c. cave in** 4. document **d. urged** 5. encouraged **e. observed** 6. maiden **f. showed off** 7. voyage **g. eaten away** 8. boasted **h. earlier** 9. corroded **i. first** 10. collapse **j. record** **2. PHRASE MATCH: ** (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.) 1. the world’s most **a. the Titanic as possible** 2 in much better condition than **b. the clock** 3. document as much of **c. near-real time** 4. take a **d. has corroded** 5. the very latest pictures in **e. previously thought** 6. at the bottom of **f. crew perished** 7. The luxury liner sank **g. famous shipwreck** 8. 1,500 passengers and **h. on its maiden voyage** 9. working against **i. 3D tour of it** 10. Much of the ship **j. the Atlantic Ocean** **a) Did you like reading this article? ** **b) What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? ** **c) Why do you think more women and children survived than men? **  **d) What do you think happened to the designers and engineers who said ** **the Titanic was unsinkable? ** **e) When was the last time you worked against the clock? **  **f) Would you sail on a ship named Titanic II? ** **g) Have you ever witnessed or experiences something that was titanic? **  **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">h) Do you think someone should raise the Titanic? ** **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">i) What secrets do you think the Titanic holds? ** __**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">VOCABULARY **__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">media type="custom" key="19182348" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">
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 * <span style="color: #980606; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Word Bank: **
 * Ocean, sank, hours, unsinkable, survived ||  lifeboats, cold, iceberg, USA, halves  ||  1912, voyage, submarine, long,oceanographers  ||

<span style="color: #980606; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Titanic was a luxury ocean liner that sank on its first _. This huge ship was almost 900 feet (269 meters) _ and had been advertised as "_." On the night of April 14,_, the Titanic hit an _ as it was sailing in the North Atlantic _. The ship had been traveling from Britain to the _. Within a few, the ship _ , killing about 1,500 people. Most of them drowned in the _ water because there weren't nearly enough for everyone. Only 705 people _ the accident. In 1985, _ found the remains of the Titanic on the ocean floor using sonar and a remote-control _. The giant ship had broken in half as it sank, and the two __ now rest hundreds of feet apart with debris scattered between the front and the back.

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