ACTIVITY 2: Match the pictures with the captions.

1.

The

Dead

Sea,

the

salty lake
located at
the lowest

http://www.bbc.
com/news/world-middle-east-36477284

point

on

Earth,

is

gradually
shrinking
under the
heat

of

the
Middle
Eastern
sun.

For

those who
live on its
shores it's
a

slow-

motion
crisis

but
finding
extra
water

to

sustain
the

sea

will be a
huge
challenge.

2.

new
supercom
puter
from
China has

http://www.bbc.com/

topped the
latest list

news/technology-36575947

of

the

world's
most
powerful
machines.
An
electric

3.

racing car
built

by

Swiss
student
engineers
has
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-

broken

36606500

the world
record for
accelerati
on

by

batterypowered
vehicles.
A huge snake

4.

that

has

lived

in

the
of
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w.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36573623

roof
an

Australian
home for

10

years

has

tried

to
upgrade
to

the

master
bedroom.
More
than

5.

300,000
people
have
signed

petition
urging
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-

Apple not

36606220

to

ditch

the
headphon
e

socket

from

the

version of
the
iPhone
due

for

release
this
autumn.

ACTIVITY 3: Read the following caption. Then, answer the questions.

The zero-fuel aero plane, Solar Impulse, has touched down in Spain, completing the 70hour Atlantic leg of its historic bid to circle the globe.
The landing in Seville marked the end of the 15th stage of Solar Impulse's journey. Pilot
Bertrand Piccard made swift progress over the ocean after leaving New York on Monday.
Mission managers will now plot a route to Abu Dhabi where the venture began in March,
2015. The project had hoped to end the 6,000km Atlantic leg in Paris, to echo the pioneering
flight in 1927 of Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis aircraft was the first to
make the solo crossing.
By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science Correspondent
23 June 2016, from the section Science & Environment

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36598140
Questions:
1. What is the caption about?
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2. According to your understanding, what is the purpose of the caption?
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3. What do you know about the event?

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4. Where and when was the photo taken?
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The photo was taken in at June 23 2016
5. Make your own caption based on the picture.
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