Loch Ness

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Loch Ness Monster
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New Vocabulary

• A beast
• To pass by the lake
• To attack a man
• To save a man
• The modern legend
• To pray
• A major tourist attraction
• A surgeon
• To confess

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Loch is a Scottish Gaelic word for a lake.
Loch Ness is a large lake in Northern Scotland.
It is about 35 km long and 1500 meters wide. The
average depth of the lake is about 400 meters.
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There have always been lots of stories in
Scotland about beasts in the water. St. Columba
made the first written reference to a monster in
Loch Ness in the year 565.
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One day, he was passing by the lake when he saw a
large beast. The monster tried to attack a man
who was swimming in the lake. St. Columba prayed
and the man was saved.
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The modern legend of Loch Ness dates back to a
newspaper article in 1933. The monster has been
a media favourite since then, and today the Loch
Ness monster is a major tourists attraction.
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And anyone who finds or photographs Nessie, as
some people call the monster, will become very
rich. In 1934, Colonel Robert Wilson, who was a
surgeon, took the most famous photographs of
Nessie.
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In 1994, one of Wilson's friends confessed that
the monster was in fact a toy submarine that was
onle one meter tall.
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Some people believe Nessie may be a plesiosaur.
It was a marine dinosaur, which died out 70
million years ago. Plesiosaurs had small heads,
long necks and were good swimmers.
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Over the years, a lot of people have been trying
to find Nessie. But nobody has proved that the
monster exists. Dan Taylor, who was American,
came to Loch Ness with a small underwater craft
which the locals called the Yellow submarine.
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The craft had harpoons to pierce Nessies skin
and get a sample of her tissue for analysis. But
the craft was slow and began to leak.
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Make up questions to the sentences.

1. Loch ness is situated in Scotland. (Where?)
2. The Lake is 400 meters deep. (Is?)
3. People can become very rich if they take some
   photos of Nessie. (Why?)
4. Robert Wilson managed to take the most famous
   photo of Nessie in 1934. (When?)
5. But it was a toy submarine. (What?)

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Answer the questions about yourself.

1. Have you ever heard anything about Nessie?
2. Have you ever seen Nessies photos?
3. Do you believe that this monster really exists?
4. Would you like to sell it with your own eyes?
5. Are you afraid of monsters or beats?

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Find the English equivalents to the expressions.

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