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

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