1. Reading and speaking skills practice. Practice and improve your reading skills with this text about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Finally, you will have to answer to questions about this topic.

2. Listening and speaking skills practice. Hear the ‘Titanic’ song . Later, sing the song with you class group.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. Before she sailed, many people thought it would be almost impossible for her to sink.

At 11:40 PM on 14 April 1912, she hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg broke the Titanic's hull, letting water into the ship and the Titanic sank two hours and forty minutes later.

The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. One reason why so many people died was because the ship did not have enough lifeboats for everyone on board. Not many lifeboats were on Titanic, because the Titanic was said to be unsinkable.

Another ship, the SS Carpathia, did hear about the accident and collected all 705 survivors. Sadly, the Carpathia was very far away from Titanic. Many Titanic passengers froze to death in the ocean before help came.

The Titanic disaster changed many maritime (ship) laws. Because so many people died, authorities felt that laws should be put into place to make ship travel safer. Changes included requiring all ships to carry enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship, and emergency materials such as flares. Someone must be at the ship's radio all the time.

The story of the sinking has been made into several movies. The most popular film version is a 1997 film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio called Titanic.

Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you That is how I know you go on.

Far across the distance And spaces Between us You have come to show you go on .

Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart does go on, Once more you open the door, And you're here in my heart and My heart will go on and on.

Love can touch us one time And last for a lifetime And never let go 'til we're gone.

Love was when I loved you One true time I hold to In my life we'll always go on.

Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart does go on, Once more you open the door And you're here in my heart and My heart will go on and on,

you're here, there's nothing I fear And I know that my heart will go on, We'll stay forever this way You are safe in my heart and My heart will go on and on

TITANIC MY HEART WILL GO ON LYRICS

TITANIC MY HEART WILL GO ON LYRICS