"The Titanic" Facts and Figures

In our last class we learnt more facts about the “Titanic.”

First of all you told me that you had seen the film. And most of you liked it. I must admit that I found it quite boring and  rather long.

We practised questions and answers so as to find out more about the ship. And we also did a listening.

Can you answer these questions?

         ·            How long was the “Titanic”?

         ·            How heavy was it?

         ·            How many passengers were travelling first class?

         ·            How many passengers were there in third class?

         ·            How many people made up ( =were there)the crew?

         ·            How many boats were there?

         ·            Why were there so few boats?

We asked questions to find out (=discover) what certain figures referred to.

·            What does “272m. 39cm.” refer to? It was the length of the “Titanic.”

·            What does number 20 refer to? It was the number of lifeboats that there were on the ship

etc.

And we also made a list with eight things we had done the previous day.

Then we had to find at least one person in the group who had done the same things as us.

Pilar could hardly find a couple of people who had done one or two of the things she had done.

Alejandro found one person for each one of the activities. Well done!

And to finish the class we listened to a story that we had to complete with our own ideas. It started like this:

“It was a cold dark night...

 So, I hope you didn’t forget to write your stories with the facts you invented (=made up).Because we will vote for the best story and that will be our 10^th Game. Good luck with your stories!

"My heart will go on"Listen to the song