Енглески језик 7, радна свеска, старо издање, Нови Логос

WRITING
A news article
1
Language point: Time connectors
1 Order the sentences.
Dog Rescues
Man
2 Read the text. Complete the sentences
with one of the connectors in brackets.
a
b
c
d 1
e
Volcanic ash cloud
Eyjafjallajökull, a volcano in Iceland, started to erupt
two weeks ago. At first , (At first / While)
people who lived near the volcano moved away from
the area. 1 (As soon as / Then) a lot of
thick smoke started to come from the volcano.
2
, (While / Later) the wind changed
direction, and a cloud of volcanic ash started to move
south.
People were worried. They thought that the volcanic
ash could break plane engines. 3 (As
soon as / While) the clouds arrived over northern
Europe, the airports closed and nobody could fly.
4
(While / Later) the European airports
were closed, thousands of passengers waited in Asia
and America. They all wanted to fly back to Europe,
but the airports stayed closed for about one week. The
ash cloud 5 (finally / at first) went away.
6
(When / While) the airports opened
again, people started to fly home.
TASK
3 Read the notes. Then complete
the news item with information from
the notes.
Plane crash
flight Brussels — Istanbul
plane flies over Alps
pilots not worried — plane has 4 engines
Milan airport — change direction
plane slows down & loses height
pilots worried — fly over the mountains
crashes near a farm
rescue services help survivors all night
nobody is hurt
airline thanks pilots for their great work
Plane crash
There were dramatic scenes last night after the crash of a
flight from Brussels to Istanbul . The plane was flying
1
. At first, the pilots
2
because 3 .
They spoke to Milan airport and 4 .
Then 5
. As soon as this happened,
the plane 6 height. The pilots were
worried because 7 .
Finally, the fourth engine 8 while
9
. Then the plane 10
. 11 and
luckily, nobody died. After the crash, the airline
12
.
4 Make notes about an interesting or important
event that happened recently. Then write a news item.
TV and news 13
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