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1. Look at the photos. What do you think the text is about? Choose from the headlines a, b and c. 

    a. Tourists' fishing trip disaster

    b. How to protect sea creatures

    c. Fish rescues salilors

Answer:

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2. Match sentences A-G with gaps 1-5. There are two extra sentences. 

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 the sharks swam away after a few minutes.
G. But they couldn't get out of the water here.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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3. Read the text again. Are the sentences true or false? Write T or F.


1. When Dan and Kate were fishing,the weather was brilliant.
2. Dan was the first person to see that there was a problem with the boat.
3. The boat sank before Dan and Kate couldjump into the water.
4. A helicopter saw Dan and Kate in the sea,but it couldn't rescue them.
5. When Dan and Kate reached land,they couldn't get out of the water at first.
6. There was nobody on the beach when Dan and Kate got out of the sea.
7. The captain swam to the beach a few hours after Dan and Kate.

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 Don't say very

4. Match the extreme adjectives highlighted in the text with the simpler adjectives below. 

1. very bad 5. very surprising
2. very good 6. very sad
3. very beautiful 7. very frightenng
4. very big 8. very tired

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Workbook

1. Match the pairs of adjectives with similar meanings. Put them in the correct order.

astonishing   bad   big   disgusting   exhausted   filthy   good   hungry   sad   stunning   tasty   terrifying   tiny

surprising
delicious
beautiful
awful
unpleasant
starving
small
brilliant
frightening
tragic
dirty
huge
tired

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2. Match sentences A-G with gaps in the text. There are two extra sentences.

Alone at sea

A On 29 January 1982, Steven Callahan left the Canary Islands in a small yacht. But a week later, during an awful storm, something (probably a whale) hit the yacht and made a huge hole in it. He had to act quickly!

B Steven got into an inflatable life raft and just had time to get a sleeping bag, a first-aid kit, some food, maps, and a torch from the yacht before it sank. He also managed to get a copy of a book called Sea Survival. But he couldn't rescue the radio from the yacht.

C  His food ran out after a few days so he had to survive by catching sea-birds, fish and flying fish. He drank rain water which he caught in the raft .

D After about two months at sea, the raft was 3,300 km from the place where the yacht sank. But unfortunately they didn't see him. He was beginning to think that he might not survive. He was starving, exhausted, weak and very thin.

E Finally, after 76 days, some fishermen saw the sea-birds that were flying around the raft and took Steven to the island of Guadeloupe. After his terrifying experience, he was finally in the Caribbean!

A. During this time, Steven saw nine ships.
B. Water was coming in and the boat was sinking fast.
C. But he couldn't swim back to the yacht.
D. It contained lots of useful information about surviving at sea.
E. He was planning to sail to the Caribbean.
F. Some men were fishing near Steven's raft.
G. Alone in the life raft, Steven travelled slowly across the Atlantic Ocean.

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3. Read the text again, including the missing sentences. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Write the paragraph (A-E) which contains the answer.

1. Steven wanted to sail to the Canary Islands. T or F? Paragraph?
2. Steven's nightmare started four days into the trip. T or F? Paragraph?
3. Steven managed to get some useful things from the sinking yacht. T or F? Paragraph?
4. Steven ate birds and fish in order to survive.T or F? Paragraph?
5. Steven didn't reach the Caribbean. T or F? Paragraph?

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