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                                                                                      A. Which of the following do you
                                                                                        think is true about pirates?
              1    Warm-up                                                              Tick. Read the text and check
                                                                                        your answers.
                   Discuss the following questions.
                                                                                 1.  They wore eye patches.
                   • Have you ever travelled by ship?                            2. They had wooden legs.
                   • Did you like it? Did you get seasick?
                   • Have you read any books or seen                             3. They had parrots.
                    any films featuring adventures at                            4. They wore gold earrings.
                    sea? What were they about?
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                    he golden age of piracy was during the 1600s and the 1700s. Pirates sailed the seas attacking
                    other ships and robbing whatever was on board, hoping to find treasure. They fought using guns
             t or swords and captured or even killed the sailors of the enemy ship. There are many books about
             pirates, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island. There are also films about pirates, like
             Pirates of the Caribbean, starring Johnny Depp. But what were real pirates like? Were they all toothless,
             dirty men wearing a patch over one eye, torn clothes and with a parrot on one shoulder? How much of the
             traditional image of a pirate is fact and how much is fiction?
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             It’s impossible to imagine   The idea that all pirates had parrots   It was common for   While they were
             a pirate without thick,   comes from a character in the book   pirates to board other   fighting, many pirates
             gold earrings and in    Treasure Island called Long John   ships. Often, when the   lost their legs or arms.
             actual fact they were   Silver who had a parrot. Although it’s   pirates arrived, the crew   Therefore wooden legs
             quite common. Some      possible that some pirates actually   of the enemy ship were   and arms were used,
             say they were used after   did have parrots, it is believed that   waiting below deck. It   sometimes even with
             their death to pay for   it probably wasn’t common. Pirates   was dark down there, so   hooks. These men
             their funeral. It was also   usually kept animals on board for   it is believed that pirates   usually became the
             believed that pirates   fresh meat. They went on long      used to wear a patch to   ship’s cook as they
             never felt seasick while   voyages and spent a long time at sea,   help their eyesight adjust   weren’t useful for
             they were wearing them.  so a parrot would most likely become   to the difference in light.  anything else.
                                     someone’s dinner.

                                                                                           B. Read the text again and
                                                                                             answer the questions.

                                                                                           1.  Who was Robert Louis
                                                                                              Stevenson?
                                                                                           2. Why did pirates wear
                                                                                              gold earrings?
                                                                                           3. Who was Long John
                                                                                              Silver?
                                                                                           4. Where was the enemy
                                                                                              usually waiting when
                                                                                              pirates boarded a
                                                                                              ship?
                                                                                           5. What happened to
                                                                                              pirates who lost their
                                                                                              legs?
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