lunes, 20 de enero de 2014

Captain Scott


Read the text and complete the chart below with a word from the list that comes after the text. Every word can only be used ONCE. There are five words that you do not need to use. Question 0 has been answered as an example.

Robert Falcon Scott (1868 – 1912)

‘Scott was a naval officer and explorer, who died 0) __________ to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Robert Falcon Scott was born on 6 June 1868 in Devonport. He became a naval cadet at the age of 13 and served on a number of Royal Navy ships in the 1880s and 1890s. He attracted the notice of the Royal Geographical Society, which appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition – which included Ernest Shackleton – reached 1) __________ south than anyone before them and Scott returned to Britain a national hero. He had caught the exploring ­­­­2) __________ and began to plan an expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole. He spent years 3) __________ funds for the trip.
The whaling ship Terra Nova left Cardiff, Wales in June 1910 and the expedition set 4) __________ from base the following October, with mechanical sledges, ponies and dogs. However, the sledges and ponies could not 5) __________ with the conditions and the expedition carried on without them, through appalling 6) ____________ and increasingly tough terrain. In mid December, the dog teams turned back, leaving the rest to face the ascent of the Beardmore Glacier and the polar plateau. By January 1912, only five 7) __________: Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Evans.
On 17 January, they reached the pole, only to find that a Norwegian party led by Roald Amundsen, had 8) __________ them there. They started the 1,500 km journey back. Evans died in mid-February. By March, Oates was suffering from severe 9) __________ and, knowing he was holding back his companions, walked out into the freezing conditions never to be seen again. The remaining three men died of starvation and exposure in their tent on 29 March 1912. They were in fact only 20 km from a pre-arranged supply depot.
Eight months later, a search party found the tent, the bodies and Scott’s diary. The bodies were 10) __________ under the tent, with a cairn of ice and snow to mark the spot.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/scott_of_antarctic.shtml


          ATTEMPTING   COPE                  OUT                    STAYED
BEATEN             FROSTBITE        RAISING            UP
BUG                    FURTHER           REMAINED       WEATHER
BURIED              LED                     RISING               WON

0) ATTEMPTING

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