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1. Work in pairs. Look at the photos. What do you think the text is about? Choose from headlines a, b and c.
a. Tourist’s fishing trip disaster
b. How to protect sea creatures
c. Fish rescues sailors
2. Read the first paragraph of the text. Did you choose correctly in exercise 1? How do you know?
Reading StrategyWhen you do a task with gapped sentences in a narrative text, look carefully at the sentence before each gap and think about what is likely to happen next. Then look at the options and see which of the sentences matches your ideas. Finally, check that the text reads smoothly with your chosen sentence in place. |
3. Read the Reading Strategy. Then read the text, focusing on each gap and thinking about what might happen next.
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A dream holiday turned into a nightmare for an American brother and sister, Dan and Kate Suski. During a fishing trip in the Caribbean, their boat sank.
The weather wasn't brilliant that day, but Dan had caught a huge fish! He was trying to pull it onto the boat when the captain realised water was coming into the cabin. The boat was sinking last. The captain used his radio to send a message for help. Then he shouted, ‘Jump out!’. (1) _____. They were about 15 km from land.
The captain said that help was coming. The weather was now awful, but they were wearing life jackets. After an hour, the captain and the Suskis lost each other, and there was no sign of rescue. (2) _____. They were both thinking the same terrifying thought: sharks!
A helicopter appeared, but nobody saw Dan and Kate in the water. Day turned to night and the Suskis swam for fourteen hours. Finally, they saw some cliffs; they were near land! (3) _____. There were dangerous sharp rocks. By now, they were exhausted. Eventually, they reached a sandy beach. (4) ____.
Then they found a town and picked some green bananas. Finally, they met a young farm worker (5) _____. He also gave them some tragic news: the captain was lost at sea.
After a few days in hospital Dan and Kale were fine. Their story had another happy ending: a rescue boat found the captain after 23 hours on the water!
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4. Match sentences A–F with gaps 1–5 in the text. There are one extra sentences. Do any of the sentences match your ideas from exercise 3?
A. So Dan and Kate started to swim as fast as they could towards land.
B. The captain helped them as they climbed onto dry land.
C. He gave them water and food, and stayed with them until the police arrived.
D. So they did, and a few minutes later, the boat disappeared under the waves.
E. Out of the water at last, they lay down and rested.
F. But they couldn't get out of the water here.
5. Read the text again. Are the sentences true or false? Write T or F.
1. Dan was the first person to see that there was a problem with the boat.
2. The boat sank before Dan and Kate could jump into the water.
3. A helicopter saw Dan and Kate in the sea, but it couldn't rescue them.
4. When Dan and Kate reached land, they couldn't get out of the water at first.
5. There was nobody on the beach when Dan and Kate got out of the sea.
LEARN THIS! Extreme adjectivesa. Some adjectives are extreme equivalents of simpler adjectives. delicious = very tasty disgusting = very unpleasant fantastic = very (1) __________ filthy = very (2) __________ starving= very (3) __________ tiny = very (4) __________ b. Very common adjectives often have more than one extreme equivalent enormous, massive, gigantic, giant, immense = very big |
6. Read the Learn this! box and complete it with the adjectives below.
small good hungry dirty
7. VOCABULARY Match the extreme adjectives highlighted in the text with the simpler adjectives below.
Extreme adjectives
1. very bad __________
2. very good __________
3. very big __________
4. very sad __________
5. very frightening __________
6. very tired __________
8. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Prepare an interview with Dan or Kate.
Student A: You are the interviewer. Write six questions using the prompts below and/ or your own ideas.
Student B: You are Dan or Kate. Prepare your answers to Student A's questions. Use as much information from the text as you can.
1. what/ weather/ like/ that day?
2. what/ you/ doing?
3. what /happened/ boat?
4. why/ you/ start/ swimming?
5. how/ you/ feel?
6. how/ you/ reach safety?
