Improve your vocabulary – Titanic 100 years on

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It’s been a blustery voyage at times for the MS Balmoral crossing the Atlantic carrying 1300 passengers. Some of them relatives of people who travelled the same route on Titanic a century ago; others, just fascinated by the history and mystery of what happened to her. Now they are all coming together at the very spot where Titanic sank to be led in prayer on the decks overlooking the stern of the cruise ship. Wreaths of flowers will be thrown into the ocean directly above the wreck site and then this ship’s band will play ‘Nearer My God To Thee’, the hymn said to have been played by Titanic’s band as she sank into the cold, dark, icy water exactly 100 years ago.

 

 

Vocabulary and definitions

blustery

ˈblʌstəri

very windy

fascinated

ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd

very interested

her

hə(r)

pronoun used to talk about a ship when normally ‘its’ would be used

prayer

preə(r)

words used to speak to a god

deck

dek

the floors on a ship

stern

stɜːn

the back part of a ship

cruise ship

kruːz ʃɪp

a ship used for long-distance leisure trips

wreaths

riːðz

rings of leaves and flowers

wreck

rek

the remains of a sunken ship

hymn

hɪm

a song sung by Christians to praise God

Nguồn: BBC

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