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2a By sea 2 Read
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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p i r a t e s
pirates
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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