III. Grammar Review

Complete the sentences with the phrases from the right column. Join two parts using before or until. Comment on the use of tenses. Translate the sentences into Russian.

The cargo will have to be removed	before	salvage experts work out how to return her to shore.
The crew will stay three more days on board	before	the ship is towed to shore.
But a 26 m gash will remain open	until	the rescue begins.

IV. Speech Practice

Answer the questions to the text above.

1. Why did the cargo ship strand?

2. What damage did she sustain?

3. When can the rescue begin?

4. What will be used to remove the cargo?

5. Was any repair made?

Text 2 (A). An operation to evacuate up to 1,600 people from a stricken cruise ship

I. Read the text and give answers to the questions below.

1. Why did the Sea Diamond send a distress signal?

2. What happened with the passengers? Were there any people missing?

3. Who took part in rescue operation?

5 April, 2007

An operation to evacuate up to 1,600 people from a stricken cruise ship has been completed off the coast of the Greek island of Santorini

The Greek-flagged Sea Diamond issued a distress signal after running aground and starting to take on water.

Passengers told they were taken from the ship on lifeboats. They said the evacuation proceeded calmly.

More than a dozen ships in the area were involved: a flotilla of commercial ships plus six navy helicopters and various navy vessels, along with¹ emergency medical crews. The ship was about one nautical mile (1.8 km) off the coast of the island in the eastern Aegean Sea. After running aground several hundred metres from shore in Santorini's volcanic lagoon, it was towed off the rocks for the rescue to take place.

The weather was good and the sea calm. The passengers were to be collected from Santorini by a sister ship and taken to Piraeus, where they would have ended the cruise on Saturday anyway. Many of the 1,200 passengers are from Germany and the United States, and about 20 are believed to be from the UK. There are also up to 400 crew.

American passenger Cliff Jones said: "We were pulling into the port and I think the ship hit a few rocks. The ship tilted so far to the right the first five floors were flooded. We just waited at the top to be rescued".

The ship had been on a short tour of the Greek islands.

Vocabulary

stricken	потерпевший аварию
to issue	выпускать, зд. посылать
to run aground	садиться на мель
to proceed	протекать, проходить
emergency	аварийный; катастрофа, авария
to tow off	снимать с мели
to pull into	прибывать
to tilt	давать крен
to flood	заливать, затоплять

II. Vocabulary Practice

1. Find an odd word.

1. list, heel, leak, tilt, roll;

2. arrive, set off, pull into, reach;

3. pull, tow, lack, drag;

4. proceed, continue, carry on, confirm, go on.

2. Form collocations with the word emergency and translate them into Russian:

beacon, crew, control, exit, facilities, ladder, medicine, power, receiver, repair, services, signal.