Part 2. The Last Message
Inside, in, at, about, near, with, from, to
In England many people wanted to know more 1 … Franklin. Some people were said that Franklin and his men were living 2 … Eskimo people or Inuit. Other people said that Franklin was certainly dead. Jane Franklin was John Franklin’s wife. She wanted to know exactly what happened 3 … her husband. 4 … July 1857 she sent an expedition to the Arctic. A year later on an Island 5 … Baffin Bay they discovered one of Franklin’s sailors. Ten years … too late. He was lying in a boat 6 … the edge of the sea. … Dead. 7 … the dead man they found a small stone house. 8 … the house they found a note.
It was the last message 9 … the Franklin Expedition.
Exercise 8. Separate the following text into words and sentences and then read it and translate it into Russian:
“Aprilthe25th1848wearrivedhereinseptember184619monthsagoourshipsaretrappedintheiceandwecannotmovethemenaredying25menarealreadydeadcaptainjohnfranklindiedonjunethe11th1847welefttheshipstwodaysagoouronlychancenowistowalk.”
Exercise 9. Each sentence has a mistake, correct the mistakes and listen to the fragment to check yourself:
1. So Franklin and his men died in the Arctic three years after they will leave England. 2. Without any food their only chance were to walk to their deaths in the ice. 3. The Franklin Mysteries was solved. 4. But was its solved? 5. Why were so many sailor dying when they left the ships? 6. Franklin have excellent maps of the area. 7. Why did he took the wrong route? 8. There’s still questions to answer.
Exercise 10. Listen to the text “Mystery Solved” twice and then fill in the gaps with the words given below: