The world's last remaining wooden whaling ship has sailed again.
Self-study activity:
Watch this National Geographic video and complete the blanks in the transcript with the missing words.
The activity is suitable for intermediate 2 students.
Where way does she lay in the aft and from the loft to points on our lay bow and about three miles off.
One big sweat
Rebuilding her is one thing, and learning how that works and how they built it and then how they rigged her but, these (1) ... were designed to do one thing and that was to sail. They were never designed to be at the (2) ... , they had to do it, but that wasn’t their designation. So to learn what we’re learning from this (1) ... is a huge historical event.
She was built in (3) ... , umm started in the middle of winter, and launched in July of (3) ... . Umm amazingly she was built in under seven months by a group of about sixteen men and they even had a couple weeks (4) ... in there.
It gets better and better as far as our understanding and we’re getting as close as we’re going to get. One of the things that is amazing for us in the (5) ... ... is the number of things that over the years we found out we were so (6) ... ... about. We thought she was a slug. A slug is completely unfair, but much more sluggish in responding then she in fact is. Her ease of handling is phenomenal. You come to appreciate the design of this.
You don’t have a lot of feasible, (7) ... things anymore that kinda connect us to our history. A lot of people forget that we are a maritime nation, and especially with boats and maybe traditional (1) ... like this as well, it gives us a (8) ... to our history, and I think that’s, I think that’s important.
I think that there is something about her being the last one. The preservation of a time that we almost did this to the (9) ... , and we understand how precious the few are. It was the (10) ... ... that lubricated our industrial revolution. You keep the memory alive of I mean just the influence that, that (11) ... had on American history in general.
And its lower your boats boys and be of good cheers, get your tubs in your boats boys, keep your bow lines all clear. Now bend to your oars and make your boats fly. One thing we dread of, keep clear of his eye.
Key:
1 vessels 2 dock 3 1841 4 strike 5 demonstration squad 6 dead wrong 7 touchable 8 tie 9 whales 10 whale oil 11 whaling
