Choose the correct word from the following pairs of words and write each one in the correct blank
big/strong swam/walked made/won sick/healthy is/was
a. Annette Kellerman was an Australian who was very____________ when she was young.
b. She went to swimming lessons which made her legs____________.
c. She was very poor so her father took her to England where she____________ for money.
d. She tried to swim across the English Channel with six other men and she____________ the last one out of the water.
e. She____________ two medals at the Olympics and became a film star later.
UNIT 7
Hijack
Pre-reading activity
1. Have you ever flown in a plane?
2. Do you like flying?
3. Has there ever been a hi-jacking of a plane in your country?
Some people are afraid of flying. They are worried that the plane will crash or that someone may hijack it. A person who hijacks a plane usually says he will blow up the plane if he does not get money. Sometimes hijackers do not want money, however. They want other things. They sometimes want their friends let out of jail or to go to another country.
The first hijacking happened on 16 June 1948 on a plane traveling from Macau to Hong Kong. Some men with guns told the pilot they wanted money. The pilot fought them but the hijackers shot him. The plane crashed into the sea and nearly everyone in it died. Only one man lived. His name was Wong-yu Man. When the police brought the plane out of the sea, they looked at it very carefully and found bullet holes in the walls of the plane. They knew then that there had been a hijack.
A policeman sat near Wong-yu Man's bed in the hospital. Before long Wong-yu started to talk in his sleep. "Where are my men?' he said. 'Are they all right? Did they get the money?' The policeman wrote everything down. He knew Wong-yu's words meant something. He thought Wong-yu was one of the hijackers. He was right. When Wong-yu came out of hospital, he went to jail for a long time.
New words
crash: The car ran off the road and crashed into a tree.
hijack/ -er: A man with a gun hijacked the 2 a.m. plane to Paris and asked for two million dollars.
blow up: If the men blow up the plane, everyone will be killed.
jail: The man did such bad things that he was sent to jail.
gun: The hijacker pointed the gun at the man and shot him.
bullet: She didn't kill anyone because there were no bullets in the gun.
Main idea
Circle the correct answer.
The story is about…
1. a plane crash.
2. how to hijack a plane.
3. Chinese police.
4. the first hijacking.
5. planes and traveling.
Vocabulary
Find the words in the passage which are near in meaning to the following words and phrases.
a. took place
b. one who flies a plane
c. think unhappily about what may happen
d. killed or hurt with a bullet
Write the word that completes the sentence.
a. The man who did not die went to____________. bullet
b. The plane____________ into the sea. crashed
c. Wong-yu was a____________. hijacker
d. The police found____________ holes in the plane's walls. hospital
Choose and write the correct word.
a. The police found a dead man in the street last night. ____________ they thought he was asleep. At first/At last
b. My brother is often tired because he does not_____________ well. work/sleep
c. The police took the thief to_____________. school/jail
d. 'Give me all your money or I will_____________ this building,' the man said. blow up/build
Looking for detail
Answer these questions.
a. Name two things people are afraid of when they fly in planes?
b. When did the first hijacking take place?
c. Where did it happen?
d. Why did the plane crash?
e. What made the police think the crash was unusual?
f. What would you do if you were in a plane that was hijacked?
g. What does the word 'men' in paragraph 2 refer to?
Complete the following sentences. Your answers must come from the story.
a. Some people do not like to fly because they think______________.
b. People who hijack planes usually want______________.
c. In 1948, some men hijacked a plane traveling______________.
d. The police found out that Wong-yu was the leader of the hijackers because he said, ______________.
e. The police knew that the plane had been hijacked because they found______________.
Picture comprehension