5.5.

1 SPEAKING

SURVIVOR STORIES
Student C
Read the story.

Carla Jensen was a 19-year-old young woman from Denmark who worked as a servant. She traveled
with her brother, uncle, and fiancé. They didn’t have much money, so they traveled third class. They
wanted to live in the U.S., but only Carla survived. Her family put her into the lifeboat because women
went first. After the accident, she returned to Denmark and never left her country again.

Answer the questions.

1 How old was Carla at the time?
2 Where was she from?
3 Was she a passenger or a crew member? If a passenger, what type of ticket did she have?
4 How did she survive?
5 What did she do in the years after the accident?

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