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=__Task 1: Deadline Friday 27 th January__= =__o) What do you know about the Titanic (oral) when, where why, who...__= =1) Read the text below and __make a wordlist__ ( English Catalan) of all the red words below= =2) Taking into account the link underneath write a 120 word composition about the Titanic.= =When, where, why, who.... It should be a text, don't answer the questions=

3) Listen to the song
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= = = O n April 10, 1912, the //Titanic//, largest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her first voyage to New York City. The White Star Line had spared no expense in assuring her luxury. A legend even before she sailed, her passengers were a mixture of the world's wealthiest travelling in the elegance of first class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage.= = The //Washington Post// announces the disaster = || =She was considered as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 lifeboats - enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew. Since the ship's construction made her " unsinkable, " her lifeboats were necessary only to rescue survivors of other sinking ships. Additionally, lifeboats took up valuable deck space.= =Four days into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. Her fireman compared the sound of the impact to "the tearing of calico, nothing more." However, the collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the ship.= =It became obvious that many would not find safety in a lifeboat. Each passenger was given a life jacket but life expectancy would be short when exposed to water four degree s below freezing. As the forward portion of the ship sank deeper, passengers scrambled to the back. John Thayer witnessed the sinking from a lifeboat. "We could see groups of the almost fifteen hundred people still aboard, = =as part of the ship rose into the sky, till it reached a sixty-five or seventy degree angle." The great ship slowly slid beneath the waters two hours and forty minutes after the collision= =The next morning, the liner //Carpathia// rescued 705 survivors. One thousand five hundred twenty-two passengers and crew were lost. Subsequent inquiries attributed the high loss of life to an insufficient number of lifeboats and inadequate training in their use. =
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 * == Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors. ==
 * == There were no cats on the Titanic. Cats were often brought on ships as a form of good luck. They also controlled rodents. ==
 * ==** There were 13 couples on board celebrating their Honeymoons. ==
 * == Captain Smith was planning to retire after Titanic's maiden voyage. ==
 * == The Titanic had 4 elevators (3 in First class and 1 in Second class). ==
 * == At the time, Titanic's whistles were the largest ever made. ==
 * == Titanic's whistles could be heard from a distance of 11 miles. ==
 * == The Titanic carried 900 tons of baggage and freight. ==
 * == The Titanic used 14,000 gallons(3,7 litres) of drinking water every 24 hours. ==
 * == Coal consumption per day: 825 tons. ==
 * == It Carried 20 lifeboats and 3560 life jackets. ==
 * ==*** The Titanic sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg. ==
 * == It probably took Titanic about 15 minutes to sink to her final resting place on the ocean floor. That means that Titanic sank at a rate of 10 miles per hour (or 16 km per hour). ==
 * == It probably took Titanic about 15 minutes to sink to her final resting place on the ocean floor. That means that Titanic sank at a rate of 10 miles per hour (or 16 km per hour). ==

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[] =__Task 2: Deadline Friday 3rd February__= =1) Watch the video. Choose Language English for the subtitles. The subtitles should appear.= = = =3) Make a wordlist of a__ll the underlined words__= =4) Answer the questions using __a complete sentence__=



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