#11 A Whale of a Story

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Match the following sentences with the correct identification.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
James Bartley was swallowed by a whale and lived.		This statement is too broad.
Whaling was a dangerous business.		This statement is too narrow.
A whale smashed a small boat from the whaling ship.		This statement is the main idea.

how to hunt whales for their oil and meat.

the hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live.

the duties of each man on a whaling ship.

a man who managed to survive inside a whale.

they could feel someting moving about wildly.

the whale seemed very heavy.

the whale was bulging out at one spot.

the captain heard Bartley yelling for help.

he wanted different kinds of adventures.

of fright and shock.

he was crippled by the whale.

he often got seasick.

narrating the plain facts.

referring to whaling in general.

comparing whaling to other fishing.

dramatically telling what happened.

whale's tail.

whale's blubber.

dead body of the whale.

whale's side.

Match the following sentences with the correct identification.

James Bartley was swallowed by a whale and lived.

This statement is too broad.

Whaling was a dangerous business.

This statement is too narrow.

A whale smashed a small boat from the whaling ship.

This statement is the main idea.

This passage is mainly about

how to hunt whales for their oil and meat.

the hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live.

the duties of each man on a whaling ship.

a man who managed to survive inside a whale.

The sailors knew that something was in the whale's stomach because

they could feel someting moving about wildly.

the whale seemed very heavy.

the whale was bulging out at one spot.

the captain heard Bartley yelling for help.

James Bartley probably never went to sea again because

he wanted different kinds of adventures.

of fright and shock.

he was crippled by the whale.

he often got seasick.

The author, in telling James Bartleys story, informs us by 

narrating the plain facts.

referring to whaling in general.

comparing whaling to other fishing.

dramatically telling what happened.

The word carcass refers to the

whale's tail.

whale's blubber.

dead body of the whale.

whale's side.