Circle the correct answer. 1. Rich people who travel on airships

The story is about…

1. rich people who travel on airships.

2. a dangerous gas.

3. plane crashes.

4. why airships are better than planes.

5. an airship that crashed.

Vocabulary

Find words in the passage that are near in meaning to the following phrases.

a. go away from

b. person who flies

c. not safe

d. having a lot of money

Complete these sentences, using the words from the box.

Passengers comfortable journey land crashed gas passengers burning

a. The Hindenburg airship________________ on 6 May 1935.

b. The Hindenburg carried 16 bags of________________.

c. Many________________ died in the Hindenburg crash.

d. How many________________ does this airship carry?

e. I'm tired. I have had a long________________.

f. What time will we________________ in America?

g. Is your chair________________?

h. What's that I can smell? Is something________________?

Choose and write the correct word.

a. Please fill the________________ glasses with water. heavy/empty

b. Sue________________ the highest on sports day. ran/jumped

c. Don't touch that hot metal. You'll________________ yourself. burn/cut

d. I'm always worried about flying. I hope the plane________________ on time. crashes/lands

Looking for detail

Answer these questions about the passage.

a. What kept The Hindenburg in the air?

b. How many passengers could the airship carry?

c. How long did The Hindenburg take to cross the Atlantic?

d. Why were most of the passengers rich who traveled on The Hindenburg?

e. Why did The Hindenburg crash?

f. Why didn't all of the passengers on the airship die when it crashed?

g. Why weren't there airships after 1935?

h. Why may there be airships in the future?

i. What does 'them' refer to in paragraph 1?

Complete these sentences. Your answers must come from the passage.

a. The Hindenburg crashed because________________________________.

b. An airship is different from a plane because________________________________.

c. When the pilot filled the bags with gas, the________________________________.

d. Although The Hindenburg did not travel quickly, ________________________________.

e. 34 people died in The Hindenburg because________________________________.

Picture comprehension

Make a tick under the picture of the Hindenburg crash. Say why you think this is correct.

Organizing ideas

Put these sentences into the correct order by writing the numbers 1-6 next to each letter.

a. ____ No one could save the people on the airship and thirty-four people died.

b. ____ One of the largest airships was a German airship called The Hindenburg.

c. ____ After that no one wanted to travel by airship, but perhaps airships will come back because they are cleaner and quieter than planes.

d. ____ The journey took about a week but on the 6 May 1935 The Hindenburg was landing in America when it caught fire and crashed.

e. ____ Others jumped to the ground and lived.

f. ____ It carried rich passengers from one side of the Atlantic to the other.

Writing

Write sentences about the story by putting these words in the correct order.

a. large gas. a of An is full is that airship balloon

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b. was The of airships. Hindenburg largest one the

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c. to It Germany traveled from America.

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d. caught In crashed. fire The 1935 and Hindenburg

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e. to people jumped died and the more lived. but ground Many people

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f. dangerous. people were that airships After thought

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g. use day airships people one again. will Perhaps

UNIT 18

Coca-Cola

Pre-reading activity

1. What do you like to drink on a hot day?

2. Do you Ilk© the soft drink Coca-Cola?

3. What is the most popular drink for school students in your country?

Coca-Cola is one of the most popular soft drinks in the world. Dr. John Pemberton first made it in Atlanta, America, in 1886. Dr. Pemberton was not a real doctor but he sold syrups to people who were ill. He made his first Coca-Cola drink with syrup and soda water. He gave it to his friends to try. They liked it but asked him to make it even better.

Although Dr. Pemberton's drink was 99% sugar and soda water, 1% of it was coca leaves and cola nuts (that is why he called the drink 'Coca-Cola') and some other things. Dr. Pemberton would not tell anyone what these other things were. He kept them a secret. The drink did not sell well at first so he sold the secret. Two years later he died.

In 1892 Asa Candler bought the secret and started The Coca-Cola Company. Until 1899 people could not take the soft drink away from shops to drink at home. They had to drink them in the shops. However, when the Coca-Cola drink became very popular, people wanted to take home bottles of it, so Mr. Candler agreed to sell it in bottles.

In 1919 Mr. Candler sold his part of the company for US $25 million!

Today, The Coca-Cola Company is one of the largest companies in America. In 1992 it sold 506 million bottles of Coca- Cola each day. People can buy it in 195 countries. It is still the same drink that Dr. Pemberton made in 1886.

New words

soft drink: They had Coca-Cola and many other soft drinks at the party.

syrup: When her cat was ill she gave it a syrup made of sugar and water.

soda water: Soda water is made by adding a gas to water.

nut: Some birds like to eat nuts from trees.

secret: Don't tell anyone we are getting married because it is a secret.

Main idea

Does each of these sentences say what each paragraph is about? Write T for true or F for false.

Paragraph 1____ People like Coca-Cola.

Paragraph 2____ Coca-Cola has sugar, water, coca leave and cola nuts in it but some parts of Dr. Pemberton's drink were secret.

Paragraph 3____ Asa Candler would not let people take Coca-Cola home.

Paragraph 4____ Mr. Candler made a lot of money by selling his part of the company.

Paragraph 5____ Coca-Cola sells very well all over the world.

Vocabulary