When the famous ship, Titanic, sank in 1912 the captain was the last on board.
Jen and Rob talk about acceptable and unacceptable behaviour for the captain of a ship during a disaster at sea.
This week's question: Do you know how heavy the world's biggest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, weighs? Is it:
a) 2,500 tonnes
b) 25,000 tonnes
c) 250,000 tonnes
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Listen
Captain's etiquette
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Vocabulary
- capsized
turned over in water
- speculating
formulating opinions about something without knowing all the facts
- etiquette
the formal rules of correct behaviour
- abandoned
left behind forever
- heroic
showing extreme courage and admired by many people
- custom
an accepted way of doing things
- compels
forces someone to do something
- genes
the units in the cells of a living thing that determine its physical characteristics
- contradicts
says or does the opposite of something
- mistress
a woman who a married man is having a regular sexual relationship with and who is not his wife
