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Teacher guide & answers
In this lesson: Identify the recovered objects and separate a fact from a possible owner.
Divers Find Clues on an Old Slave Ship
How to use these two pages
Give learners the student worksheet. It contains the story and questions, without the answers. Keep this guide for yourself. Use it to lead the activity and explain the answers afterwards.
Student worksheetA simple 15–20-minute lesson
- Before reading · 2 minutes
Show the title. Ask: “What do you think this story is about?”
- Read and answer · 8–10 minutes
Give out the student worksheet. Learners read for the main idea, then reread to answer the 2 questions. They can compare answers with a partner.
- Discuss and write · 5–8 minutes
Check the answers below together. Ask learners to point to the clue in the story, then finish with the open question.
Adjust the support: Let learners use word help or Level 1 if needed. For a challenge, compare the wording in another level. This activity is not a proficiency test.
Answers to the 2 questions
The question numbers match the student worksheet. Each answer includes a reason and the clue learners can find in the story.
What did researchers find?
Correct answer: B — Part of a shoe and two metal rings
Why: The first paragraph identifies the shoe part and two rings.
Clue in the story: Researchers found part of a fine shoe and two metal rings on the wreck of Havmanden near Gothenburg in Sweden. The Danish ship sank in 1683.
Is the shoe’s owner certain?
Correct answer: A — No
Why: The second paragraph states that the owner is not certain.
Clue in the story: The rings were used as payment in the slave trade. The shoe may have belonged to a governor, but its owner is not certain.
The open question: accept different answers
Ask learners: Describe the two types of finds and what remains unknown.
One possible answer: Researchers found part of a fine shoe and two metal rings. The rings were used in slave-trade payments; the shoe may have belonged to a governor, but its owner remains uncertain.
This is an example, not the only correct answer. Look for a relevant idea, a reason and the learner’s own words. Learners can answer aloud or write one or two sentences.
Grammar to discuss
A possibility
may have belonged
May have belonged expresses uncertain past ownership, not a confirmed identification.