ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOCUS

"Seeing her coming out of the darkness like a ghost ship still GETS ME EVERY TIME.
Take a look at this drawing that we found just today - a piece of paper that has been under water for eighty-
five years." "I'll be damned!" "Alright, YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION.
Can you tell us who the woman in the picture is?" "Oh yes. the woman in the picture is me." "Louie the 16th
wore a stone called the Blue Diamond Of The Crown and today it would be worth more than the HOPE
DIAMOND.
If your grandmother's who she said she is, she was wearing the diamond the night the ship sank. I'M A
BELIEVER." "Are you ready to go back to Titanic?" "I PULLED EVERY STRING I could to book us on the
GRANDEST ship in history and you act like your going to an EXECUTION.
"I don't understand you. It is a FINE MATCH with Hockley. It will insure our SURVIVAL."
"You jump I jump, right?" "I hope you enjoy your time together!" "We've got to stay on the ship as long as
possible." "Jack, this is where we first met?"
"GOD ALMIGHTY!" "Hold on! Aaah! Hold on! Oh! Oh God!"
Match the phrases with their definitions
1 GETS ME EVERY TIME A I believe (e.g. idea, person, theory etc.)

2 GOD ALMIGHTY! B "I'm listening carefully to you."

3 HOPE DIAMOND C Cry for protection by the power of God
4 PULL EVERY STRING D (Adj) large, impressive, magnificent,
dignified (grand, grander, grandest)
5 YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION E Touches my heart deeply, causes affection,
sympathy, compassion etc.
6 GRANDEST F Made arrangements with people to acquire
(from pulling puppet strings)

7 I'M A BELIEVER G Large (45.5 karats) blue diamond from India

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Fill in the blanks with the most correct word or words.

Gets me every time- I'm a believer- pull strings - fine match- Survival.

1 "Lee said he's going to win the video games contest." "_________________. He's the best
player I ever saw!"
2 "My Uncle Bechan _____________________ to get these two football tickets for us."
3 "Muhammad and Layla are going to be married on Tuesday, I think they're a
________________________."
4 "_______________________ in freezing water is difficult." "Right, a person will only last only 15
to 45 minutes.

5 "The suffering of children in some developing countries _______________________________."

 UNSINKABLE
Why did the Titanic sink?

5 *super duper facts. Put them in a in a conditional sentence.

1) The binoculars were locked up.

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2) The ship was going too fast.
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3) The rivets were poor quality.

4) There were unsually high tides in Jananuary1912.

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5) Not enough life boats for everybody.

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