29. Supply the correct form of the verbs given in brackets and perform the role play given below. Pacific Student’s Bottled up Plea Drifts Ashore in Spain

Peter Tebainea was a court clerk (1) _______________ (to struggle) with his law studies on the Pacific island of Butaritari when he stuffed a plea for help in a bottle and threw it into the sea. More than three years and several thousand miles later, the bottle finally turned up – on a beach in Cadiz, southern Spain.

His request for help and the reward on offer (2) ______________ (to be) still legible. Mr Tebainea (3) _______________ (to write) in broken English on a piece of paper: “If you are interested with me request please write to me to the above address. My reward to you I will allow you to having holiday with family in Butaritari beautiful island, and also tour around uninhabited small islet around and having photos with those islands.”

How the bottle got to Spain, is anyone’s guess. One possible route (4) _______________ (to take) it on a current known as the South Equatorial – away from Indonesia and across the Indian Ocean. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope, it (5) _________________ (modal verb/pick up) by south Atlantic currents, which (6) _______________ (to take) it to the Caribbean. From there, the Gulf Stream (7) _______________ (to deliver) it on to a beach in Cadiz.

Or it (8) ____________________ (modal verb/hitch) a lift on the Atlantic circumpolar eastwards, past Cape Horn and into the south Atlantic.

Earlier this year, oceanographers (9) _______________ (to stun) (10) ________________ (to discover) that a floating flock of 29,000 rubber ducks, turtles, beavers and frogs – cast overboard 11 years ago from a container ship en route from China to Seattle – (11) ________________ (to begin) to arrive on the New England coast. They (12) ________________ (to get) there through the Bering Strait.

All this was of little concern to the Spanish beachcomber who wanted to know what (13) _______________ (to become) of the poor South Pacific court clerk. The search went through Jane Resture, an editor of a website about the South Pacific in Queensland.

Ms Resture, (14) _______________ (to quote) acquaintances of Mr Tabainea, said he last (15) _______________ (to hear of) working on a ship. He, like his bottle, (16) _______________ (to go) to sea.

Before now, Butaritari’s main claim to fame had been that it (17) _______________ (to visit) by Robert Louis Stevenson for three months in 1889.

(From ‘The Guardian’, abridged)

Role play. You are oceonographers studying climatic change and ocean currents. Get a map and discuss how the bottle could have got from the Pacific island of Butaritari to southern Spain.

Role 1. You think the bottle must (might/may/could) have travelled across the Indian Ocean and round the Cape of Good Hope.

Role 2. You think the bottle must (might/may/could) have travelled past Cape Horn.

Vocabulary Revision

30. Revise Vocabulary 1 Unit 9 ( p …) and Vocabulary 1 Unit 10 (p. …) and do the following multiple choice task.

1. Some words are hard to _______ because they have many different meanings.

A. define B. determine

2. Good manners _______ the gentleman.

A. define B. determine

3. Weather ________ the size of the crop.

A. defines B. determines

4. The government has _________ war on Ruritania.

A. announced B. declared C. proclaimed

5. James and Judy ________ the date of the wedding in the newspaper.

A. announced B. declared C. proclaimed

6. The opposition ________ that they would probably support the government decision.

A. announced B. declared C. proclaimed

7. Peace was ______ at last.

A. announced B. declared C. proclaimed

8. Is the _______ of Queen Victoria considered the golden age of Britain?

A. reign B. rule

9. In ancient times the kings of England ________ without a parliament, having complete power.

A. reigned B. ruled

10. A country will hardly flourish if it is under foreign ______.

A. reign B. rule

11. The countries _______ their efforts to promote the peace settlement.

A. unified B. united

12. You must ______ the systems, otherwise they’ll be impossible to use.

A. unify B. unite

13. Common interests ________ our countries.

A. unify B. unite

14. Have you got any _______ to offer for coming so late?

A. excuse B. justification

15. In _______ of his failure he said he had been ill.

A. excuse B. justification

16. The police racially abused a black man. There can be no _______ for such acts.

A. excuse B. justification

17. Until the conflict over land started the villagers had lived in _____ for years.

A. agreement B. concord C. consensus

18. Having failed to do the work in time, you broke our _______.

A. agreement B. concord C. consensus

19. Though the problem is rather complicated, we are all in _______ about what to do.

A. agreement B. concord C. consensus

20. Every parliamentary group had its own opinion on this controversial issue but they did reach a(n) _______.

A. agreement B. concord C. consensus

21. The president made a bad mistake. Even his _______ supporters had to admit that.

A. hard-core B. staunch

22. It’s no good asking Father to join the union, he’s its _______ opponent.

A. hard-core B. staunch

23. He won’t steal. I have ________ in him.

A. belief B. faith

24. It’s my ______ that she is right.

A. belief B. faith

25. These people have very unusual religious _______.

A. beliefs B. faiths

26. His _______ in God is unshakable.

A. belief B. faith

27. The _______ of single people in the country is growing.

A. per cent B. percentage

28. What _______ of the people want change?

A. per cent B. percentage

29. Church attendance among young people has risen by 20 ______ in the past two years.

A. per cent B. percentage

30. He used _______ to get what he wanted.

A. force B. strength

31. He can lift heavy weights because of his ________.

A. force B. strength

32. His personal knowledge is the ______ of his argument.

A. force B. strength

33. I bought this plot of land on the _______ of his advice.

A. force B. strength

34. The _______ of his personality was so great that many people accepted his beliefs as true.

A. force B. strength

35. I’ve made the first __­­__ of my speech, but it still needs a lot of work.

A. draft B. project

36. The chairperson can’t answer any questions now. The plan is still only in ______.

A. draft B. project

37. This student is doing a special _______; he’s building a small electrical machine for his science class.

A. draft B. project

38. She ________ as the illness grew worse.

A. loosened B. weakened

39. He ________ his tie but didn’t take it off.

A. loosened B. weakened

40. She asked so many times that in the end we ______ and let her go.

A. loosened B. weakened

41. He says he’s just a(n) ________ man, with _______ hopes and fears.

A. conventional B. ordinary

42. Jean’s got very ________ opinion about food, so she won’t eat anything new or frozen.

A. conventional B. ordinary

43. I wish you weren’t so _______ about the clothes you wear.

A. conventional B. ordinary

44. If the US takes a hostile _______ toward Islam it can lead to unpredictable consequences.

A. attitude B. position C. stance

45. By telling her the truth, you’ve put me in a very difficult _______.

A. attitude B. position C. stance

46. Older people usually change their _______ to religion.

A. attitude B. position C. stance

47. I’d like to help you, but I’m afraid, I’m not in a(n) _______ to do so.

A. attitude B. position C. stance