The Titanic is the world’s most famous ship When it was built it was the world’s largest ship It was big It was fancy It was beautiful It was supposed to be unsinkable But it hit an iceberg This happened on April 14 1912 Over 2 hours later the Titanic sank There were only 705 survivors The Titanic set sail on April 10 1912 This was its maiden voyage It left England It was going to New York There were over 2,200 passengers on board Over 1,500 people died It’s one of the deadliest sea disasters in history 4 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
fLaSH fACt The Titanic was built in Ireland Vocabulary unsinkable un-SINGK-uh-buhl not having the ability to sink iceberg ISE-burg a big floating chunk of ice survivors sur-VYE-vurz people who live through something bad maiden voyage MAY-duhn VOI-ij the first trip passengers PAS-uhn-jurz people traveling 5
fLaSH fACt The iceberg that sank the Titanic was spotted at 11 39 p m Vocabulary crew KROO workers flooded FLUHD-id filled with water rescued RES-kyood saved 6
The ship received several warnings of ice But the warnings didn’t get to the captain A member of the crew saw the iceberg But it was too late The ship couldn’t turn quickly enough The iceberg cut open the ship’s side Water flooded the ship The captain gave orders to load the lifeboats But there weren’t enough lifeboats The lifeboats also weren’t filled all the way Not everyone was able to get away People on the ship sank with the ship People who jumped off drowned in the cold icy water The captain went down with the ship The Carpathia rescued survivors It picked people up It brought people to land 7
