U N I T 16
Learning points:Reading comprehension: Arranging jumbled stories
Review points:Past Simple Tense. Participle I, Participle II
On this page there are two newspaper stories ‘El AL Boeing747 crashed into Amsterdam apartment blocks’ and ‘All 291 people aboard stricken TWA Tristar escape inferno’. But the stories have been mixed up.
1. Look at the paragraphs quickly and first decide which paragraphs go with which story.
| a) He tried to turn around and go back to the airport, but the loss of at least one of the engines caused him to lose control of the plane | f) A Boeing 747-200F crashed in a working-class district of the Dutch capital tonight, 15 minutes after take- off from Schipol Airport | |
| b) TWA flight 843 to San Francisco began its take-off roll shortly after 5:30 p.m. | g) Seconds later, the 275 passengers and 16 crew aboard the Lockheed L 1011 felt the aircraft lurch violently to one side, as dense smoke filled the cabin | |
| c) The flight attendants then went into action, leading the passengers to the two escape chutes behind the cockpit | h) The flight had left at 6:21p.m. from New York, and only a few minutes later the Israeli pilot, Isaac Tuchs radioed the control tower, reporting a fire in the jet's engines | |
| d) Almost immediately after, he reported a second engine fire | i) The impact demolished two nine-story buildings, inhabited mostly by immigrants from Suriname and the Antilles. Estimates put the number of deaths at 150 to 200 | |
| e) The pilot was aborting take-off. With its rear engine ablaze, apparently because of a ruptured fuel line, the speeding jetliner crashed through a runway barrier and skidded to a stop | j) In less than two minutes all aboard the blazing Tristar were safely on the tarmac. The near catastrophe left 67 people with minor injuries |
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