Ship Freed from Suez Canal
That's News to Me
High Int
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12
In this lesson featuring business content from The Washington Post, students read about a ship that blocked the Suez Canal, causing billions of dollars of damage to global trade. This lesson includes a review of modals of past regret.
Focus
current events
authentic materials
reading
modals of past regret
interpretive
productive
Vocabulary
standstill
mammoth
tracking
high-stakes
wedge
salvage
undergo
rule out
commend
steep
impeccably
extraction