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Titanic TIM VICARY BEFORE READING CHAPTER 7 Before Reading 1 N (There were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers.) ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING 2 N (It took more than two hours for the ship to 1 d sink.) 2 f 3 Y 3 e NSWERS 4 N (Some of the lifeboats go into the sea with room A 4 a for many more passengers.) 5 c 5 Y 6 b 6 N (Some third-class passengers broke the doors and ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING came up to the boat deck.) Open answers. CHAPTERS 7 AND 8 WHILE READING 1 How many lifeboats did the Titanic have? ACTIVITIES While Reading It had twenty lifeboats. 2 Why was Mrs Astor cold? CHAPTER 1 WHILE READING Because she did not have a warm coat. 1 halves, bottom 3 Why did Mrs Straus stay on the ship? 2 sailors, photographs Because she wanted to stay with her husband. 3 cameras, carefully 4 What did Daniel Buckley put on when he got into a 4 film, newspapers lifeboat? He put on a woman’s hat. CHAPTER 2 WHILE READING 1 F Thousands of people built the Titanic in Belfast. 5 How many musicians were there on the ship? 2 T There were eight musicians. 3 T 6 What kind of music did the musicians play? 4 F Astor’s wife Madeleine was eighteen years old. They played happy music. 5 F Edward Smith was the captain of the Titanic. 7 Why was it difficult to get into Lifeboat B? 6 F Most of the passengers were working people. Because it was the wrong way up. 7 T 8 How many people did Harold Lowe take out of the 8 F Anna Turja wanted to begin a new life in sea alive? America. He took four people out of the sea alive. 9 F The third-class cabins were a long way under the 9 What could the people in the lifeboats see in the other passengers’ cabins. morning? 10 T They could see icebergs and hundreds of bodies. CHAPTER 9 WHILE READING CHAPTERS 3 AND 4 WHILE READING 1 Thomas Andrews Correct order: 4, 7, 5, 2, 6, 1, 3 2 Mrs Astor CHAPTER 10 WHILE READING 3 Edward Smith 1 Mr Astor 4 Bruce Ismay 2 Millvina Dean 5 Frederick Fleet 3 Anna Turja 6 First Officer Murdoch 4 Mrs Astor 7 Niels Jensen 5 Colonel Archibald Gracie 6 Sidney Goodwin CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 WHILE READING 1 c 7 Bruce Ismay 2 a 8 Carla Jensen 3 g 9 Second Officer Charles Lightoller 4 e 10 Daniel Buckley 5 h 6 d 7 b 8 f OXFORD BOOKWORMS STAGE 1 1 © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS PHOTOCOPIABLE CHAPTER 11 WHILE READING we couldn’t understand them. Evans got out of bed at 1 A Night to Remember. 5.40 in the morning. We saw more rockets then, and 2 Because she could not speak English. Evans called the ship to ask about them. The ship was 3 200 million dollars. the Carpathia. They told us about the Titanic and the 4 Most of the film is true. iceberg. Of course, we went towards the Carpathia at 5 Millvina Dean. once. We wanted to help. But the Titanic was under the 6 Eighty-five. sea. We could not do anything. 7 The QE2. ACTIVITIES 3, 4, AND 5 AFTER READING Open answers. Encourage discussion. NSWERS After Reading A ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING 1M E S S A G E 2C A M E R A 3 ACTIVITIES L I F E B O A T 4C O R R I D O R 5E N G I N E 6O P E R A T O R 7S I N K 8I C E 9 B A B Y The hidden word is emergency. ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING REPORT FROM CAPTAIN ROSTRON OF THE CARPATHIA Our radio operator called the Titanic because he had a message for one of the passengers. But the radio operator on the Titanic said “We need help. We are sinking!” So we began to go towards the Titanic at once. We were more than 90 kilometres away, and it took us three hours. It was dangerous because there were a lot of icebergs, but we didn’t stop. In the end we arrived at the right place, but we couldn’t find the Titanic. There were just some lifeboats. The Titanic was already under the sea. The passengers were cold and tired. We helped them onto the Carpathia, and gave them coats and hot drinks. REPORT FROM CAPTAIN LORD OF THE CALIFORNIAN We stopped at 10.30 that night because there was ice in the sea. We saw a big ship at just after 11 o’clock. I wanted to tell them about the ice. We tried to send a message with a light, but the other ship didn’t answer. We couldn’t hear any messages on the radio because Evans, our radio operator, was in bed. Soon the other ship stopped. An hour later, we saw some rockets, but OXFORD BOOKWORMS STAGE 1 2 © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS PHOTOCOPIABLE.