The Titanic

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The Titanic
3. Fill the gaps with the words in the box. What do you think these words mean?
hypothermia, unsinkable, iceberg, launched,
rafts, nicknamed, destination,
close, rescue, taking on,
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emigrating, split up, pleasure cruise, departed, split apart, maiden voyage, freezing, drifting
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The RMS Titanic began its ____________________ on April
10th, 1912. It ________________ from Southampton,
England,
with
2,224
people
on
board.
The
__________________ was New York City. Some of the
people on board were ____________________, others were
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wealthy people on a _____________________. The Titanic
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was ____________________ ‘The Ship of Dreams’. Four
days into her journey, at 11:40 p.m., the Titanic hit an
____________________. This happened in the Atlantic
Ocean, south of Newfoundland, Canada. Boaters in the area
had warned Captain Smith of __________________ ice, but
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he ignored the warnings. Like most of the passengers, the
captain viewed the ship as ______________________. When Edward J. Smith, captain of the
Titanic.
he tried to steer around the iceberg, it was too late. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EJ_Smith.jpg
Titanic began _____________________ water immediately. (22.10.12)
Some passengers prepared to escape on lifeboats, but there weren’t enough __________________.
Due to the women-and-children-first protocol, many families were ________________________.
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The evacuation
was chaotic, and lifeboats
were _________________________
half full. Two and a
half hours after hitting the iceberg, the ship ________________________ and sank. The water was
________________________, and most who fell in died quickly of ______________________. No
ships were ________________________ enough to help with the ______________________.
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