NATALIA ALEJANDRA KUYOC LARA

UPPER INTERMEDIATE II
MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY 5-7:30
2b. Watch the video and check your answers to exercise 2a. Then answer the questions
below.
1. What did Columbus see when he first sailed into the Bermuda Triangle? Saw
strange lights in the sky.
2. What is strange about the way the ships disappear? Have simply vanished without a
trace no warning no distress calls no wreckage
3. Which three places mark the boundaries of the Triangle? The triangle covers the
seas between Bermuda to Miami and down to Puerto Rico one and a half million
square miles of treacherous water
4. How many planes and people were involved in Flight 19? On the 5th of december
1945 five US Navy airplanes with a crew of 14 Airmen were on a training flight off
the east coast of Florida.
5. According to the pilot, what problems were they having? He must have been seeing
land at that time but he didn't see anything, everything went wrong, the fourteen
airmen were lost.
6. What event added to the mystery of Flight 19? there was a final twist that night a
rescue plane was sent to look for flight 19, 27 minutes later it too vanished.

3ª. These numbers and dates from the video are incorrect. Watch the video again and
correct them.
 thousands of lives - hundreds of lives
 100 ships - 1,000 ships
 1490 - 1492
 1,000,000 square miles - half million square miles
 15th December, 1945 - 5th of december 1945
 19 minutes later - 27 minutes later
5ª. Watch three people talking about a mysterious or paranormal experience. Complete the
table.
Where he/she was and who
he/she was with
Eben He was with his sister,
outside his house, preparing
his truck for summer
vacation.
Martin I was alone in his house in
the middle of the field
What happened Possible explanation
(if any)
In the clear blue sky of Namibia at Venus
five o'clock in the morning a bright Meteorite
light appears now the strange thing is
that it was moving and moving very
fast and it made a hissing sound when
it passed overhead there was no object
behind it. There was no queue behind
them and of course they were scared
so they ran home and told their parents
that they just saw this light.
he heard horse hooves outside near the
road and couldn't figure out where the
noise was from he looked outside and
the noise stopped and he couldn't see
anything there was nothing around