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Cutty Sark

A Look at the picture. Do you know anything
about the ship Cutty Sark? Can you guess
where this ship sailed or what people used it
for? Listen, read and check your answers.
for? Listen, read and check your answers.
B Look at the highlighted words in the text
and find their definitions in a dictionary.

London, near the River Thames. MM Publications

utty Sark is a type of ship called a ‘clipper’.
utty Sark is a type of ship called a ‘clipper’.
C utty Sark is a type of ship called a ‘clipper’.
utty Sark
C Clippers were very fast ships, and Cutty Sark
was the fastest of all of them.
From 1870 to 1877, Cutty Sark sailed between China
and London. It carried tea. Back then, there was
a race, the ‘Race of the Tea Clippers’, and all the
captains wanted their ship to be the fastest. Tea was
very expensive, and the fi rst ship to arrive in London
with tea got a lot of money for it. Cutty Sark was
faster than all the other ships, but it never arrived fi rst
because it always ran into bad weather.
A few years later, steamships became more popular
for the tea trade than clippers. From 1883 to 1895,
Cutty Sark’s job was to carry wool between England
and Australia. It was a dangerous journey that usually
took over seventy days each way. Cutty Sark became
famous as the fastest ship to make this journey.
© PROJECT
Cutty Sark is the only tea clipper around today. It
can’t sail anymore, but you can see it in Greenwich,

PROJECT

Make a poster!
Think of a means of transport (e.g. car,
plane, ship, bus). Do some research
into what it was like in the past in your
C Read again and write country and what it is like now. Then
T for True or F for False.
make a ‘Then and Now’ poster with
pictures and interesting facts.
1. The irst ship to bring tea from pictures and interesting facts.
China always got a good price for it.
Then (1930s)
Then (1930s)
2. Cutty Sark never won the Then (1930s)
‘Race of the Tea Clippers’.
3. In 1883, Cutty Sark started Now
carrying wool to China.
4. It took seventy days to go from
Planes were
Planes were
England to Australia and back. Planes were
small and slow
small and slow
small and slow
5. You can sail on Cutty Sark on in the past.
the River Thames. Now planes are
big and fast.
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