Ñòð.138-139 Unit 11 ÃÄÇ Êîìàðîâà Ëàðèîíîâà 11 êëàññ

Ïðèâåäåì âûäåðæêó èç çàäàíèÿ èç ó÷åáíèêà Êîìàðîâà, Ëàðèîíîâà 11 êëàññ, Ðóññêîå ñëîâî:

11 Vanished without a trace!

Skills aims

Listening to an interview for gist and details

Asking for clarification: expressing agreement

Reading long texts for specific information and details

Writing a story to practise describing characters' reactions and feelings: adding drama through the use of adjectives and direct speech

Dive in!

A 40 These people have mysteriously disappeared. Copy the fact files in your notebook. Then listen and complete them.

1

Name: The crew the Mary Celeste

Year of disappearance:

Where last seen:

2

Name: Amelia Earhart

Year of disappearance:

Where last seen:

3 Name: Lord Lucan

Year of disappearance:

Where last seen:

Òåêñò àóäèðîâàíèÿ:

1

In 1872 the Mary Celeste set sail from New York, commanded by Captain Briggs. On board were the crew, Briggs’ family and 1,701 barrels of alcohol. A few months later, the ship was found floating near Gibraltar, with nobody aboard. Their disappearance has never been explained.

2

In July 1937 the American pilot Amelia Earhart-the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, took off from Lae in New Guinea. It was the next part of her record-breaking round the world trip. A few hours later, however, Earhart and her plane had disappeared forever.

3

The seventh Earl of Lucan - known as Lucky Lord Lucan, has never been seen since the night of November 7m, 1974. On the night that Lucan disappeared, someone broke into Lady Lucan’s house and murdered the family nanny. Later that night, a nervous Lucan visited a friend’s house in Uckfield, Sussex. He left early the next morning. Lucan was the police’s chief suspect for murder, but despite a huge search they have never been able to find him.

Reading

B You are going to read about two more mysterious disappearances. Read the newspaper articles quickly, then copy the fact files and complete them.

Unfired state exam

Steps to success

You have to find evidence in the text to support your answer. If you cannot find evidence for your choice, it is probably wrong.

Kidnap ruled out on ghost yacht

Police investigating the case of the Australian ghost yacht. Zak III say they do not believe the crew were kidnapped.

The disappearance of Bob Hatton (56). Peter Dunstable (69) and his brother Jim (63) has baffled police since April 2007. They said goodbye to friends at the Last Coast port of Airlie Beach and were planning to sail to Townsville. They never got there. Their empty boat was found off the Australian coast and when police went on board, they expected to find a murder scene. Instead, they found a scene of eerie calm.

The abandoned boat was neat and tidy. The men’s clothes were folded on their beds. The table was laid for dinner. They can’t have been planning to go anywhere because a laptop was being recharged and there was a cup of coffee next to ill. It must have been just another normal day on board when tragedy struck. But what kind of tragedy?

‘I here were no signs that anyone had boarded the vessel,’ said a police spokesman. They must have fallen overboard and drowned.’ But Jean Gregory, Hatton's niece, doesn't accept the police’s view of things. ‘It just doesn’t add up,’ argues Miss Gregory, 'They were experienced sailors. They can't have fallen over... not all three of them!'

The police say there may have been a sudden storm that knocked the crew off, but Gregory doesn't believe that theory either. They couldn't have been in any immediate danger,’ she says, "because their lifejackets were still folded up in the cabin.' Some think pirates may have boarded the ship and kidnapped the crew. There's no evidence to support such a theory,’ said the police spokesman. 'Perhaps it is simply that they should have been more careful.'

FACT FILE 1

Name(s):

Year of disappearance:

Where last seen:

Farmer’s discovery could solve 40-year-old mystery

A parachute unearthed by a farmer's tractor last week could be a clue to one of the worlds great unsolved crimes.

In 19/2, a man railing himself Dan Cooper boarded Might 305 in Portland. Once in the air, he passed a note to the flight attendant winch read, I have a bomb. You are being hijacked'. Cooper forced the pilot to land m Seattle. Once on the ground, he demanded $200, 000 and four parachutes. The authorities agreed to his demands. Cooper let the passengers go and the plane took off again.

Shortly after take off, Cooper asked the pilot to keep flying south, towards Mexico. When they were flying somewhere over the state of Washington, he made the flight attendant go to the flight deck with the pilots, that was the last time he was ever seen. Despite flying through the middle of a storm. Cooper opened the back door of the plane and jumper out. Of course, he took the ransom with him. A huge police search was carried out and investigations lasted for years afterwards, but Cooper - or whoever he was had disappeared without a trace. Until now.

Police are examining the parachute, but haven't yet decided if it is Cooper's. But even if investigators do decide it's his, the mystery still remains: is he dead or alive? Some say that Cooper couldn't possibly have survived such a jump through a thunderstorm. Others say he can't have died, because his body ought to have been found. It never was.

Over the years there have been countless theories about who Cooper was. The police have a suspect list with over 1.000 names. Perhaps the farmer's discovery will help to solve the mystery.

FACT FILE 2

Name(s);

Year of disappearance:

Where last seen:

C Now choose the best answer (À, Â, C or D).

1 Zak III was found floating at sea.

A on its way to Airlie Beach.

 sailing round the coast of Australia.

C in Townsville.

D floating at sea.

2 When they got on the yacht, the police were surprised because everything looked normal.

A it was in a terrible mess.

 everything looked normal.

C it looked like a murder scene.

D there were no clothes.

3 What were the crow probably about to do before they disappeared?

A cat

 swim

C sleep

D send an email

4 According to Jean Gregory, the lifejackets prove that there wasn't a storm.

A the men were experienced sailors.

 there wasn't a storm.

C the men were kidnapped.

D the men fell overboard.

5 Who saw Cooper jump?

A the pilots

 the flight attendant

C no one

D the passengers

6 Some people think Cooper didn't survive because of the weather.

A he forgot his parachute.

 of the weather.

C he was never seen again.

D his parachute didn't open.

7 Some people believe that Cooper survived because his body was never found.

A his parachute has been found.

 his body was never found.

C all the money disappeared.

D he has been seen in Mexico.

Words in context

D Match the words in bold in the articles with a definition.

1 confused

2 looking closely at something

3 left empty

4 make sense

5 strange and spooky

6 over the side of a ship

7 people who solve a crime

8 proof

9 money paid to kidnappers

Quick chat

How would you explain the mysteries you have just heard and read about?