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Unit 4: Past Continuous

This document provides a summary of a Titanic survivor's story in three sentences: The survivor recounts their experience aboard the Titanic as a child with their parents, including feeling excited about the ship at first. On the night the Titanic struck an iceberg, the survivor's father helped them and their mother into a lifeboat but did not get in himself. After being rescued, the survivor had nightmares about the sinking for many years and was terrified by what they witnessed when the Titanic broke in half and sank.

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Unit 4: Past Continuous

This document provides a summary of a Titanic survivor's story in three sentences: The survivor recounts their experience aboard the Titanic as a child with their parents, including feeling excited about the ship at first. On the night the Titanic struck an iceberg, the survivor's father helped them and their mother into a lifeboat but did not get in himself. After being rescued, the survivor had nightmares about the sinking for many years and was terrified by what they witnessed when the Titanic broke in half and sank.

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Unit 4: Past Continuous

Reading: Titanic survivor’s story


Phrasal verb: Look
Vocabulary
Joining Sentences
Prepositions
Grammar
Homework
Titanic survivor’s story
• I was with my parents. My father was going to open a business in
Winnipeg. People were saying to my mother and father how fortunate they were to
get on the Titanic. I was excited because I was going on a wonderful big ship.
• I had no fear or apprehension or anything. She was very beautiful: luxurious
beyond words. It was the first time I'd been on board a ship. Captain Smith was on
deck and he was very nice. He had a beard like my own grandfather and he
admired a doll I had.
• On the third night I was sound asleep. My mother woke me and said "I'm going to
dress you." But before she could my father came back from deck and said "You'd
best put this thick coat on." That was all he said. Standing on deck, I couldn't see
around the funnel. My father came back and said "The ship has struck an
iceberg." My father had no difficulty in putting me and my mother in lifeboats but
he made no attempt to get in himself.
• When we were in the water, we could hear people rushing about on the deck.
That's when the panic must have started – when they found there weren't any
lifeboats left. I was terrified. I didn't know what a shipwreck would mean or how
long it would take but I was too terrified to do anything but shriek for my father I
knew we'd left behind.
• Before she sank, she was a very beautiful ship: stationary on the ocean with all her
lights on. It was dreadfully cold but the sea was the calmest I'd ever seen. The starlit
night was the brightest I'd ever seen.
• I looked back and saw the whole of that tragedy. And I saw that ship break in half. The
front part went down and left the stern sticking up in a horrifying fashion. It was
enormous. It seemed to stick up in the air for a long time. And then it gradually went
down, turning over.
• And after that there was the sound of the whole disaster. And that was people
drowning. That is something you could never forget. And then the dreadful silence that
followed it. It seemed as if the whole world was standing still.
• It was discovered that my lifeboat was overcrowded and the officer in charge of the
boat decided he would get rid of his load by putting people in other boats. I got
separated from my mother and didn't find her until the next day.
• The next day, the icebergs were like white sails in the distance: white yachts with the
sun on them. They were very beautiful. They were all around us. The crew of the ship
that rescued us were very kind and good to us.
• We were given clothes because I'd only got my nightclothes and a blanket around me.
I had nightmares from the time it sank until I was 23. And though I wouldn't like to say
I'm not frightened of the sea, I lost a lot of the horror. I've never been in anything
touching the Titanic. A beauty. She was lovely.
The lifeboats took women only at first.

Say if the statements are TRUE or FALSE

The Titanic was travelling to New York.


The ship struck an iceberg on the first night of the
journey.
The lifeboats took women only at first.
Passengers panicked when they realized there
weren’t enough lifeboats for everyone.
The sea wasn't calm and the sky was cloudy on the
night Titanic sank.
The ship broke into two pieces before it sank.
night of the journey.
Drama
• suspect
a person who the police or other people believe to be responsible for a crime
• Witness a person who have seen the crime or know about crime
• Victim a person (people) who are damaged from the crime
• Investigator detective a person who collect evidence about crime and who is on
duty to find the criminal
• bother
(here) make a effort to do something
• desperate
ready to behave in a dangerous or violent way, to escape from a very bad
situation
• reputation
opinion people have about a person or place
• evidence
objects or information that prove that something is true
• apprehension fear/ a sense of fear
Past Continuous
Subject + was/were + verb+ing
v
• Homework:
• Write a story (fairy tail) describing the background and actions
• Or, Choose a picture and describe it using past continuous

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