Titanic Tim Vicary

1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? c . . . makes plans that show people how to
a ___ The Titanic was made in Northern make something.

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Ireland. d . . . is a person who works on a ship.
b ___ All the passengers on the Titanic were e . . . is a person who sends messages.
rich.
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c ___ The Titanic went slower because there

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were icebergs in the North Atlantic. 4 Put these sentences in the right order.
d ___ Nobody saw the iceberg in front of the a ___ For 4 days, the passengers were happy.
ship. b ___ An iceberg hit the side of the ship.
e ___ Some people in the United States heard c ___ The Titanic went under the water.
the Titanic’s first emergency message. d ___ The Titanic was made in 1912.
f ___ All of the lifeboats were full. e ___ 711 of the Titanic’s passengers arrived
g ___ The Titanic broke into two halves when in New York.
it sank. f ___ The Carpathia arrived to help.
h ___ The Californian was near the Titanic g ___ The Titanic went from Southampton.
but it arrived too late to help. h ___ The Titanic’s radio operator sent the
i ___ The 1997 film Titanic was all true. message ‘CQD’.
j ___ Millvina Dean went under the sea to i ___ In 1985, some sailors saw the Titanic
look at the Titanic. under the sea.
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2 Who said this? Benjamin Guggenheim, J.
Bruce Ismay, Millvina Dean, Thomas
5 Match a number from A with a letter from B
Andrews, John Jacob Astor
to make complete sentences.
a ‘Come on, captain, let’s get there early.’
A
____________.
1 ___ Daniel Buckley got into a lifeboat . . .
b ‘Can’t I go with my wife?’ ____________.
2 ___ Mrs Straus stayed on the ship because
c ‘Now we are ready to die.’ ____________.
she wanted to . . .
d ‘The Titanic can never sink.’
3 ___ When Captain Lord first heard about
____________.
the rockets, he . . .
e ‘I was here, eighty-five years ago.’
4 ___ Captain Rostron went towards the
____________.
Titanic quickly because he . . .
20 marks 5 ___ When Anna Turja arrived in America, a
doctor helped her to . . .
3 Match a number from A with a letter from B. B
A a . . . stay with her husband.
1 ___ A passenger . . . b . . . get to her brother’s house.
2 ___ A radio operator . . . c . . . wanted to help.
3 ___ A captain . . . d . . . and put on a woman’s hat.
4 ___ A sailor . . . e . . . went to bed.
5 ___ A designer . . .
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a . . . is in charge of a ship.
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b . . . is a person who pays to travel on a ship.

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Places People
Choose the best answer. Choose the best answer.
1 The Titanic was made in _____. 11 Mr Astor’s second wife Madeleine was _____
a ■ Scotland ​b ■ Northern Ireland ​ years old.
c ■ Wales ​d ■ England a ■ 18 ​b ■ 28 ​c ■ 38 ​d ■ 48
2 After the Titanic left England, it stopped in 12 Edward Smith was the _____ of the Titanic.
_____ and Ireland. a ■ Second Officer ​b ■ designer 
a ■ Wales ​b ■ Spain ​c ■ Scotland ​ ​c ■ radio operator ​d ■ captain
d ■ France 13 _____ said ‘The Titanic can never sink.’
3 Third-class passengers had small cabins on a ■ Colonel Gracie ​b ■ Thomas Andrews ​
_____ near the bottom of the ship. c ■ Mr Astor ​d ■ Anna Turja
a ■ E deck ​b ■ the boat deck ​c ■ C deck ​ 14 _____ was the youngest passenger on the
d ■ A deck Titanic.

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4 When the Titanic hit an iceberg, the nearest a ■ Sidney Goodwin ​b ■ Anna Turja ​
ship was the _____. c ■ Millvina Dean ​d ■ Carla Jensen
a ■ Carpathia ​b ■ Californian ​ 15 _____ was the first person to see the iceberg.

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c ■ Oceanic ​d ■ Britannic a ■ Colonel Gracie ​b ■ The captain of the
5 Some people _____ heard the emergency radio Titanic ​c ■ J. Bruce Ismay ​d ■ Frederick
message from the Titanic. Fleet
a ■ in England ​b ■ on the Californian ​ 16 After the Titanic hit the iceberg, _____ sent an
c ■ in America ​d ■ in Ireland emergency message on the radio.
6 Sailors found a Japanese man alive on _____ a ■ Mr Straus ​b ■ Captain Lord ​
in the water. c ■ Jack Phillips ​d ■ J. Bruce Ismay
a ■ a door ​b ■ an iceberg ​c ■ a window ​ 17 _____ stayed on the Titanic with her husband.
d ■ a boat a ■ Mrs Straus ​b ■ Anna Turja 
7 Four days after the Titanic sank, the Carpathia ​c ■ Mrs Astor ​d ■ Carla Jensen
brought the passengers to _____. 18 _____ got into a lifeboat and put on a
a ■ Southampton ​b ■ Cork ​c ■ London ​ woman’s hat.
d ■ New York a ■ J. Bruce Ismay ​b ■ Daniel Buckley ​
8 When she arrived in America, Anna Turja c ■ Thomas Andrews ​d ■ Benjamin
went to meet her brother in _____. Guggenheim
a ■ New York ​b ■ Halifax ​c ■ Ohio ​ 19 All the _____ stayed on the Titanic.
d ■ California a ■ officers ​b ■ third-class passengers ​
9 Carla Jensen met her husband in _____. c ■ musicians ​d ■ men
a ■ America ​b ■ England ​c ■ Scotland ​ 20 The last person from the Titanic to go onto
d ■ Denmark the Carpathia was _____.
10 Daniel Buckley went to _____ to be a soldier. a ■ Charles Lightoller ​b ■ Edward Smith ​
a ■ Japan ​b ■ France ​c ■ Canada ​ c ■ Mrs Astor ​d ■ Thomas Andrews
d ■ Scotland
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Facts Vocabulary
Choose the best answer. Choose the best answer.
21 The Titanic had _____ lifeboats. 31 words that one person sends to another
a ■ 10 ​b ■ 30 ​c ■ 40 ​d ■ 20 a ■ film ​b ■ radio ​c ■ message ​
22 Sometimes first-class passengers went to the d ■ rocket
third-class deck to _____. 32 to put a dead body in the ground
a ■ walk their dogs ​b ■ eat in the restaurant ​ a ■ fall ​b ■ send ​c ■ bury ​d ■ sink
c ■ talk to the other passengers ​d ■ listen to 33 afraid and unhappy because you think
music something bad is going to happen
23 There were about _____ tons of ice in the a ■ safe ​b ■ quiet ​c ■ warm ​d ■ worried
iceberg. 34 one of the floors of a ship
a ■ a hundred ​b ■ ten ​c ■ a million ​ a ■ deck ​b ■ light ​c ■ side ​d ■ boat
d ■ a thousand 35 not in danger

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24 The Titanic sank because there was water in a ■ worried ​b ■ safe ​c ■ terrible ​
_____ compartments. d ■ small
a ■ two ​b ■ five ​c ■ four ​d ■ three 36 a very young child

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25 The message ‘CQD’ means ‘_____’. a ■ cousin ​b ■ captain ​c ■ sailor ​
a ■ There’s an iceberg ​b ■ This is the d ■ baby
Titanic ​c ■ Help ​d ■ We are safe 37 to go down under water
26 The Titanic went under the water about _____ a ■ sink ​b ■ hit ​c ■ help ​d ■ fall
after it hit the iceberg. 38 a person who is travelling on a ship (but not
a ■ three hours ​b ■ ten minutes ​ working on it)
c ■ twelve hours ​d ■ an hour a ■ designer ​b ■ passenger ​c ■ operator ​
27 Hundreds of people died in the water because d ■ officer
_____. 39 a machine that makes a ship, plane or car
a ■ they couldn’t swim ​b ■ the Carpathia move
hit them ​c ■ they didn’t have life jackets ​ a ■ rocket ​b ■ lifeboat ​c ■ engine ​
d ■ it was very cold d ■ light
28 When the captain of the Carpathia heard 40 a small room in a ship
about the Titanic, he said ‘We must _____.’ a ■ deck ​b ■ cabin ​c ■ engine ​
a ■ wait ​b ■ get there quickly ​c ■ send d ■ bottom
rockets into the air ​d ■ go carefully
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29 _____ had a baby, and called him John Jacob.
a ■ Madeleine Astor ​b ■ Carla Jensen ​
c ■ Anna Turja ​d ■ Millvina Dean Events
30 _____ wrote a book about the Titanic, and
Choose the best answer.
died later in 1912.
41 The Titanic _____ because of the icebergs in
a ■ Captain Rostron ​b ■ Harold Bride ​
the North Atlantic.
c ■ J. Bruce Ismay ​d ■ Colonel Gracie
a ■ did not go slower ​b ■ stopped ​
20 marks c ■ went back towards England ​
d ■ went slower
42 An iceberg hit the _____ of the ship.
a ■ back ​b ■ top ​c ■ left side 
​d ■ right side

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43 At first, the Californian tried to send a

message to the Titanic with _____.
a ■ their radio ​b ■ a light ​c ■ a rocket ​
d ■ a gun
44 When Captain Lord first heard about the
rockets over the Titanic, he _____.
a ■ went quickly towards the Titanic ​
b ■ went to bed ​c ■ started the ship’s
engines ​d ■ listened to the ship’s radio
45 The officers on the Titanic said ‘_____ must
go into the lifeboats.’
a ■ men and women ​b ■ the captain and
officers ​c ■ women and children ​
d ■ first-class passengers

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46 After she got into the lifeboat, Mrs Astor
_____.
a ■ never saw her husband again ​

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b ■ saw her husband in New York 
​c ■ saw her husband in another lifeboat ​
d ■ saw her husband on the Carpathia
47 The radio operator on the Californian called
the Carpathia to ask about _____.
a ■ the weather ​b ■ the Titanic ​
c ■ the rockets ​d ■ the icebergs
48 Senator Smith was angry with _____.
a ■ Colonel Gracie ​b ■ J. Bruce Ismay ​
c ■ Mrs Astor ​d ■ Mr Straus
49 A _____ helped Anna Turja to meet her
brother in Ohio.
a ■ sailor ​b ■ musician ​c ■ soldier ​
d ■ doctor
50 The first film about the Titanic was called A
_____ to Remember.
a ■ Day ​b ■ Ship ​c ■ Night ​
d ■ Message

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