Remember the Ship, Additional Work

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1 51 (104) Remember the Ship, Additional Work Remember the Ship Crosswords Across 3 A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own (5) 4 Another word for language (6) 6 The goods that are being carried in a ship or plane (5) 8 A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving (6) 9 Relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years Relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years (10) 10 (NB! Two words) Another word for "ebb tide" (5,4) 11 The fact of including many different types of people or things, another word for pluralism, multiplicity (9) Down 1 The legal right of belonging to a particular country (11) 2 Another word for relationship, close ties, family relations (7) 3 To make a signal to someone with your hand, to show that you want them to come towards you or to follow you (6) 5 To whip yourself or someone else (10) 7 The real or imaginary line that marks the edge of a state, country etc (8)

2 52 (104) Solution

3 53 (104) Find words in the text that match the definitions below 1. The act of drawing a (sea) map: 2. Instrument used to punish/ thrash people: 3. A large white seabird, often used as an omen of death or disaster in literature: 4. Another word for relationship, close ties, family relations 5. Another word for language 6. The fact of including many different types of people or things, another word for pluralism, multiplicity : 7. To whip yourself or someone else: 8. The legal right of belonging to a particular country: 9. A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own: 10. The goods that are being carried in a ship or plane: 11. To make a signal to someone with your hand, to show that you want them to come towards you or to follow you: 12. The real or imaginary line that marks the edge of a state, country etc: 13. A long journey in a ship or spacecraft: 14. A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo:

4 54 (104) Work in pairs. Take turns explaining and guessing the words on your lists. A B 1. Whip Kinship 3. Charting Guardian 5. Cargo Tongue (as language) 7. Boundary Beckon 9. Bigot Citizenship 11. Flagellate Diversity

5 55 (104) How much do you remember of John Agard s poem? Fill in the missing words - To make the exercise harder, print the page and erase the first letters of each missing word. Remember the Ship As citizen of the English t I say remember the ship in c for language is the b we bring a weight of words to g and give us w as millennial waters beckon wide and l anchor waiting to be cast will the ghost of r become the a we shoot at our cost? I m here to navigate not flagellate with a w of the past but again I say remember the ship in citizenship for is not each member of the h r a ship on two legs

6 56 (104) charting life s tidal r and f as the ship of the sun u its light and the ship of night its c of stars again I say remember the ship in citizenship and d shall sound its trumpet outside the b wall and citizenship shall be a call to k that knows no b of skin and the h offer its w harbours for Europe s new v to b