Activity 1: Comprehension Check (True or False)
Read the statements below and decide if they are True (T) or False (F) based on the video.
- The Titanic cost about 7.5 million dollars to build at the time.
- The ship was almost as long as three football fields.
- The ship was originally designed to have 20 lifeboats, but they increased it to 64.
- A fire broke out in a coal bunker before the ship even arrived in Southampton.
- Captain Smith immediately changed the ship’s course as soon as he received the first ice warning.
- The lookouts in the Crow’s Nest had binoculars to help them spot obstacles.
Activity: Fill in the Blanks
Read the sentences below and fill in the missing words using the options from the word bank.
Word Bank:
unsinkable | lifeboats | binoculars | bulkhead | fire | mirage
- People believed the Titanic was completely ____________ because of its new safety features and the survival of its sister ship.
- To make the ship’s deck look more spacious, the number of ____________ was cut down from 64 to just 20.
- A ____________ broke out in a coal bunker in Boiler Room five even before the ship arrived in Southampton, which weakened the steel rear wall.
- The lookouts in the Crow’s Nest did not even have ____________ with them to help spot obstacles in the dark.
- An optical illusion called a ____________ haze bent the light on the horizon and helped camouflage the iceberg.
