Проект по английскому языку "Бермудский треугольник"

Проект составлен на основе познавательного материала, взятого из различных источников с целью расширения кругозора учащихся 11 класса. Кроме того, важна работа с географическими названиями в процессе перевода на английский язык, так как весь материал был изначально русскоязычным. Предлагаю использовать материал на уроке английского языка по теме "Необычные места планеты" по учебнику Spotlight 11 класс, авторов Афанасьевой О.В., Дули Дж, Михеевой И.В.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. According to the US Navy, the triangle does not exist, and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names. Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors. In a 2013 study, the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world’s 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them.

History.

The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950 article published in The Miami Herald (Associated Press) by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U. S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now - familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. In it, author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white. " He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars. " Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis' article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.

Facts of the Bermuda Triangle.

Bottom of the Bermuda Triangle mysteriously. Something there is. Researches of scientists and stories of eyewitnesses shroud in mystery the Bermuda Triangle more and more.

For the last 150 years near the Bermuda Triangle disappearance more than 70 vessels and 20 planes, that is about one thousand people is recorded. From time to time some data of the researches which are carrying out in this area get to the press, known for the anomalies. So, in 2003 the world community was stirred up by news about detection of underwater pyramids, allegedly from glass, near the Bermuda Triangle,

All know glory of these places, namely incidents not giving in to an explanation and history which here happened throughout centuries. That will be gone the plane, the ship. Then they suddenly appear inexplicably through some tens years, as though making a jump in time.

There is one interesting fact. In the nineties the last century Americans by means of sonars repeatedly investigated a bottom and found there pyramids deeply under water in the center of the Bermuda Triangle.

It appeared that these pyramids not probably on what are located in Egypt. They are created from the unknown material in all respects similar to smooth ceramics or ground glass. Also by the sizes they are conceded by the well - known pyramid of Cheops 2, 5 - 3 times. Though preliminary data say that their age no more than a half of the millennium. At the bottom of this site the great number of scuba divers, both professionals, and fans visited.

With what everything began?

Everything began in 1880 when the British frigate "Atlanta" sailed from Bermuda to England, onboard there were 290 people of crew. The frigate disappeared completely, even the most careful searches, as a part of six British vessels Navies, gave nothing. Search proceeded 4 months, but any traces of accident wasn't found. Cases of disappearance began to proceed again and again.

Since 1950 began to keep reports on strange disappearances. The first registered fact of disappearance is dated 1945. Then five planes mysteriously disappeared when flew by this zone. However, their companions managed to reach base. The gone planes were found recently at an ocean floor safe, but without remains of members of crews. This fact was hushed up by the U. S. Government until recently. Many vessels still weren't found.

The tragic list of victims of the Bermuda Triangle opens the French vessel "Rosalie" which was gone in August, 1840. It found near the Bahamas drifting with the lifted sails. Onboard there was the only living being - a canary in a cage. The deck and cabins looked so as if several hours ago there were crew members. What tragic circumstances forced them to leave a vessel and as there was its further destiny, anybody doesn't know.

Shannon Breysi from New Zealand, solved alone to cross the Pacific Ocean on the yacht, to round South America and to reach to Bugs became the participant of one of such incidents. In the plans of the woman was also crossing of the Devil triangle. Here that she told journalists:

 - I dreamed of long single swimming all life. And here, when there was an opportunity I to go to a way. Everything happened when I already came nearer to the Bermudas. At noon, when I was in the cabin, the sea surface was covered with a haze. It seemed, I got to a fog strip. Soon the real storm began, and the haze was condensed so that visibility became the zero. And suddenly round me appeared. . . ghosts! It were people in the sailor's form, any women with mournful faces and crying children. I understood that all of them are dead long ago, and from it tested chilling horror. Any force took away me to the terrible, unknown world. And suddenly I saw the dead of the husband who gave to me hands as if wishing to embrace. At this moment I fainted.

When Shannon regained consciousness, the sky at her over the head was covered with stars. Hours in the cabin showed 12. The woman was in unconsciousness of the whole twelve hours!

Who knows, probably shortly we will become witnesses something new and novel earlier. For now it is necessary to wait when new light will be thrown on a mysterious origin of underwater smooth pyramids at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle.

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SCHOOL № 15

Project

“Bermuda Triangle”.

ROSTOV-ON-DON

2014

Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. According to the US Navy, the triangle does not exist, and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names. Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors. In a 2013 study, the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world’s 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them.

History.

The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950 article published in The Miami Herald (Associated Press) by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. In it, author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars." Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis' article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.

Facts of the Bermuda Triangle.

Bottom of the Bermuda Triangle mysteriously. Something there is. Researches of scientists and stories of eyewitnesses shroud in mystery the Bermuda Triangle more and more.

For the last 150 years near the Bermuda Triangle disappearance more than 70 vessels and 20 planes, that is about one thousand people is recorded. From time to time some data of the researches which are carrying out in this area get to the press, known for the anomalies. So, in 2003 the world community was stirred up by news about detection of underwater pyramids, allegedly from glass, near the Bermuda Triangle,

All know glory of these places, namely incidents not giving in to an explanation and history which here happened throughout centuries. That will be gone the plane, the ship. Then they suddenly appear inexplicably through some tens years, as though making a jump in time.

There is one interesting fact. In the nineties the last century Americans by means of sonars repeatedly investigated a bottom and found there pyramids deeply under water in the center of the Bermuda Triangle.

It appeared that these pyramids not probably on what are located in Egypt. They are created from the unknown material in all respects similar to smooth ceramics or ground glass. Also by the sizes they are conceded by the well-known pyramid of Cheops 2,5-3 times. Though preliminary data say that their age no more than a half of the millennium. At the bottom of this site the great number of scuba divers, both professionals, and fans visited.

With what everything began?

Everything began in 1880 when the British frigate "Atlanta" sailed from Bermuda to England, onboard there were 290 people of crew. The frigate disappeared completely, even the most careful searches, as a part of six British vessels Navies, gave nothing. Search proceeded 4 months, but any traces of accident wasn't found. Cases of disappearance began to proceed again and again.

Since 1950 began to keep reports on strange disappearances. The first registered fact of disappearance is dated 1945. Then five planes mysteriously disappeared when flew by this zone. However, their companions managed to reach base. The gone planes were found recently at an ocean floor safe, but without remains of members of crews. This fact was hushed up by the U.S. Government until recently. Many vessels still weren't found.

The tragic list of victims of the Bermuda Triangle opens the French vessel "Rosalie" which was gone in August, 1840. It found near the Bahamas drifting with the lifted sails. Onboard there was the only living being - a canary in a cage. The deck and cabins looked so as if several hours ago there were crew members. What tragic circumstances forced them to leave a vessel and as there was its further destiny, anybody doesn't know.

Shannon Breysi from New Zealand, solved alone to cross the Pacific Ocean on the yacht, to round South America and to reach to Bugs became the participant of one of such incidents. In the plans of the woman was also crossing of the Devil triangle. Here that she told journalists:

- I dreamed of long single swimming all life. And here, when there was an opportunity I to go to a way. Everything happened when I already came nearer to the Bermudas. At noon, when I was in the cabin, the sea surface was covered with a haze. It seemed, I got to a fog strip. Soon the real storm began, and the haze was condensed so that visibility became the zero. And suddenly round me appeared... ghosts! It were people in the sailor's form, any women with mournful faces and crying children. I understood that all of them are dead long ago, and from it tested chilling horror. Any force took away me to the terrible, unknown world. And suddenly I saw the dead of the husband who gave to me hands as if wishing to embrace. At this moment I fainted.

When Shannon regained consciousness, the sky at her over the head was covered with stars. Hours in the cabin showed 12. The woman was in unconsciousness of the whole twelve hours!

Who knows, probably shortly we will become witnesses something new and novel earlier. For now it is necessary to wait when new light will be thrown on a mysterious origin of underwater smooth pyramids at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle.

9 facts about other anomalies.

1) In China the river with the falls, not freezing even flows in the winter at-30 degrees Celsius. And here in the middle of the summer, it, for the inexplicable reasons, starts freezing.

2) There is very small reservoir (102*61 meters) in the Taldikurgansky Region of Kazakhstan which doesn't dry up in the heat of summer. Water thus in it remains ice. Seaweed and fish there don't grow and aren't found.

3) In the mountains of India, the State of Assam is a valley of "falling" birds. Every year in August in the middle of the night birds are on a silver platter. They stay in half unconsciousness and don't try to escape when somebody takes them in hand.

4) A lot of time the Australian state secret was the fact of existence of a prehistoric plant – Vulemi. It is the pine age hundred fifty million years.

5) Scientists conducted large-scale researches of the Arctic Ocean and the continent Antarctica and found out that forms and the sizes of their contours are almost identical. It is supposed that when falling meteorite Antarctica as though was squeezed out in a planet. At this hypothesis today there are a lot of supporters.

6) Raul Cano – the microbiologist who has found disputes of recovered microorganisms in a small slice of amber. "Kano" – the biological name dispute, they got to amber somewhere 25 million years ago.

7) Near Rome there is a natural anomaly. In this place the content of iridium exceeds norm by 300 times. The layer of iridium lies in the earth at a depth which to treat the period of extinction of dinosaurs. Similar anomalies were found on the coast of the Caspian Sea, in Spain and Denmark. Who knows? Perhaps, this trace left a meteorite.

8) There is a puzzle which "the thunderous bald patch" is called. Here zone of a high voltage. It arises after hit on the lightning discharge earth. The molniyevy funnel is formed. The person can be lost if takes place in this place.

9) The puzzle inherent in a set in exact measuring devices — it "zero drift". At thin metrological measurements of a mistake constantly repeat. The surrounding space constantly changes the parameters and affects arrows of devices. That specifically changes – it isn't found out still.