The Titanic

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The Titanic

• Lesson Objectives
• To analyse the design of the ship
• To understand what happened to the Titanic.

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What do you already know?
Titanic
Write down any facts you know about the titanic
already
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The Titanic

• The Titanic was the most luxurious liner of the
  time.
• The first class staterooms were sumptuously
  furnished while third class passengers remarked
  that their cabins were like second class cabins
  on any other ship.
• The total cost of the RMS Titanic was 7.5
  million (1912)
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Owned by White Star Line
At the time of her construction, she was the
largest passenger steamship in the world
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Your Task

• Design your own maiden voyage poster
• You poster must include key facts about the
  Titanic
• You must persuade people to buy a ticket for the
  maiden voyage.

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Deaths

• Of a total of 2,223 people aboard the Titanic
  only 706 survived the disaster and 1,517 perished
  (died)
• The majority of deaths were caused by hypothermia
  in the (-2 C) water.

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Survivors, victims and statistics
Category Number on board Number of survivors Percentage survived Number lost Percentage lost
First class 329 199 60.5 130 39.5
Second class 285 119 41.7 166 58.3
Third class 710 174 24.5 536 75.5
Crew 899 214 23.8 685 76.2
Total 2,223 706 31.8 1,517 68.2
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Your task

• After looking at the story of Titanic your task
  is to put yourselves in the shoes of a news
  reporter
• You must produce a breaking news broadcast in
  pairs of news coming through about the
  Unsinkable Titanic in distress.

What could we talk about in the news reports?