Monday 14 September 2015

Easy Text (A2) - The Cutty Sark - A ship with speed for bringing home the tea!

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The Cutty Sark




The Cutty Sark is a British clipper. She was built in Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland in 1869. She was used for transporting cargo between Great Britain and Australia. She mainly carried tea, coal, wool, jute, and castor oil.

At her height, the Cutty Sark was one of the fastest clippers in the world. She won many prizes for speed!

In 1895, her days of sailing were over and she became a training ship for naval cadets.

Nowadays, the Cutty Sark is a museum ship and can be seen and visited in Greenwich, London.

The ship was named after the witch in Tam O'Shanter, a famous poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

Vocabulary – Wortschatz - Szokincs
carried (to carry/carried/carried) - transportieren /fördern - szallitas
castor oilRizinusöl - ricinusöl
clipperKlipper - gyorsvitorlas
coal Kohle - szen
heightHöhepunkt - tetopont
juteJute - jute
mainlyhauptsächlich -föleg
nowadaysHeutzutage - mostanaban
poemGedicht - vers
poetDichter - költö
speed - Geschwindigkeit - sebesseg
Transportingfördern - szallitas
witchHexe - boszorkany
woolWohle - gyapju

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