Get ready

1

Read the question: "How can you give a voice to the past?". Spot the verb and modal, the nouns, and the interrogative pronoun.

2

Fill in the table with the words depending on their categories.

3

Select the elements which help us to “hear” voices from the past:

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old letters and photos.

ghosts.

robots.

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history books.

antique objects.

recent movies.

4

Brainstorm from the title of the chapter.

5

Check with this table what you already know.

Observe and listen

1

Look at the photograph of the Titanic Museum. What does this building look like?

A boat.

A cloud.

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A ship.

An iceberg.

2

Can you imagine why?

3

Listen to the audio guide and select the words you can hear.

talk

×

building

thinking

×

galleries

×

iceberg

×

Titanic

×

Dublin

anniversary

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birthday

sheep

×

March

stranger

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right

strange

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stories

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sinking

4

Fill in the blanks to sum up.

This is (name of the building), opened in (year) in (city). It looks like a or an . Inside you can find nine interactive which tell people about the sights, sounds, smells and of the .

5

Fill with the right answer.

a) What happened to the Titanic? (She collided with an iceberg / She disappeared in a storm).
b) What was her intended destination? (England / France / The USA).
c) The movie Titanic is (very famous / unknown).
d) This movie was (a huge success / a big failure).

Let’s have fun

1

Listen to the poem and pick out the stressed syllables.

2

Spot the rhymes.

3

Repeat and record yourself.