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PR-6785UK Astonishing Headlines Teacher Resource Book

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Stranded at sea<br />

Initial understanding<br />

CAUSE AND EFFECT<br />

Date:<br />

Name:<br />

A cause makes another event happen. An effect happens as a result of a cause.<br />

1.<br />

2.<br />

Cause Hundreds of people crammed onto a small boat.<br />

Effect<br />

The boat sank under their weight.<br />

For each sentence below, draw one line under the part that tells the cause, and draw two lines under the<br />

part that tells the effect.<br />

(a) Because word spread about the pirates, many people headed for Malaysia.<br />

(b) Many Jewish people returned to the horrors of the Nazis, after they were taken in by Holland,<br />

France and Belgium.<br />

(c) Hoffman was not allowed to bring anything on board with him, so he met Schiendick on shore.<br />

(d) The Jews were upset because Schiendick sang Nazi songs.<br />

(e) By zigzagging, British ships hoped to avoid being torpedoed by the Germans.<br />

(f)<br />

With only 19 of 25 boilers in use, Lusitania could not travel at top speed.<br />

BRAINSTORM RESULTS<br />

Choose one of the cause and effect relationships above and change either the cause or the effect. Write a<br />

sentence to describe what might have happened.<br />

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