Conspiracy Theories: Read the following statements: What’s your reaction?

“TITANIC HAS NEVER SUNK. IT’S A FAILURE”

“MAN HAS NEVER LANDED ON THE MOON. IT WAS JUST A TV SETTING

THAT SIMULATED EVERYTHING”

If you read the word: “Conspiracy”…what ideas come to your mind? Is it connected
with the past or the present?
Vocabulary exercises:

Match the following words taken from the text with their correct definitions:

Plausible pretended
Hoaxes possible, likely
Freemason to be successful
To be at sb’s height humorous or malicious deceipt
Faked member of an international fraternity for mutual help with
elaborate secret rituals.

Think of Argentine conspiracies…make comments or ask about the conspiracies if you

don’t know about them:

Yabran’s death Terrorist attacks to the AMIA & Israeli Embassy

20th December Juan Castro’s suicide

Try to retell them using the following language expressions:

At arm’s length get along well avoid (v)

Can’t help (v) put up with (v) turn out to be

GREATEST CONSPIRANCIES: Throw the dice!! Each student throws the dice and
read the teory using the correct passive voice structure:

2) 10 April 1912: it wasn’t the Titanic that sank in the North Atlantic but her
sister ship the RMS Olympic. The Titanic was captured by
Albanian pirates who sold the passengers to white slave
traders. (rumoured)
3) 7 December 1941: The American government was waiting for Japan to attack
Pearl Harbor, so they could declare war. (Conspirancy
theorists claim)
4) 2 July 1947 A craft of some kind crashed near Roswell Air Force Base
in New Mexico. The government’s secrecy gave rise to
wild theories that a spacecraft with the bodies of aliens
had been found. (widely spread)
5) 1954: The Bilderberg Group, an annual meeting of very
powerful politicians. Businesspeople and intellectuals, is
believed by some to control world events. (common
knowledge)
6) 1963-1968: The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy
and Martin Luther King are still mystery. (Rumoured / the
FBI or CIA was involved).
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7) 20 July 1969: It is said man never landed on the moon, but that it was all filmed in a
television studio.
8) 31st August : Millions believe that the death of Princess Diana was not an accident
but actually an assassination.
9) 11 September 2001: the ultimate conspiracy theory claims that President Bush
orchestrated the attacks on America to produce anti-
Muslims feelings.