The loss of the Titanic

Words/Sentences to remember:
colossal: extremenly large.
liner: a large ship for carrying passengers in great comfort on long journeys.
set out: to start
look-out: a place where to keep watch or view landscape. A person stationed at a place to keep watch
Tremble: to shake slightly, usually because you're cold, frightened or emotional --> (n)
Below, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly.
plunged: to cause someone or something to fall suddenly, and often a very long way forward, down or into something.

Comprehension and Precis:
While the Titanic was sailing, a huge iceberge was spotted by by a look-out. When the alarm had been given, the ship turned sharply and sailed just alongside with the iceberge. A slight trembling was heard from below, and the captain went down to find that the ship was sinking. Everyone jumped overboard when an order to abandon the ship was given, but 1500 people were drowned because there was not enough life-boats.

Vocabulary:
Colossals: extremenly large
regarded: was considered as
compartments: seperate parts of something
flooded: was filled with water.
float: move on the water surface.
avoid: to escape
narrowly: nearly

Composition: Abandon ship
Titanic was believed to be an unsinkable liner, as it was built with 16 water-tight compartments. Therefore, an order to abandon the ship was unexpected, and everybody on the ship was very unprepared for it.

The order, however, had an adverse effect, as panic and confussion began to spread throughout the ship. People didn't know what to do, and there were lines of people rushing in all directions to find their ways to escape. When the crew came up from below, they ordered to release all life-boats available on the ship. Life-boats were lowered and people squeezed to jumped overboard. As there were not enough life-boats for all people aboard, many struggled to get into lifeboats until they were all full.

When water flooded most of its water-tight compartments, Titanic sank rapidly, and many people left on the ship plunged into the icy water. Cries of despair was horrible when life-boats moved away. 1500 lives were lost.

Key structure:
At that time, she was the largest ship that had ever been built.
After the alarm had been given, the great ship turned sharply to avoid a direct collision.

Special Difficulties: See how new words can be formed by adding -er, -ist, -ness, -ion, -ity

1. He studied physics at university. He is a physicist.
2. He works in a mine. He is a miner.
3. Pasteur did a great service to humanity.
4. He is trying to make a good impression.
5. His paintings have been admired for their originnist.
He studied physics at university