(What is the 'high-tech' of 1500 AD?)

maritime What is a Marine?

(Spoken word vs. the written word.)

-for'castle

-limey

-port and starboard

-son of a gun

-shake a leg

-three sheets to the wind

What's it mean?

What are sheets?

-canvas (cannabis) English / Dutch

-groggy

-cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

-let the cat out of the bag

Rum

proof

Lord Admiral Ed Vernon

grog

groggam / grosgrain, English / French etc.

George Washington

Quiz re. English Words and Expressions from the Sea      (Elementary Level)

Name:                                                                             Date:                   

Period:                                             Grade:                       

Circle the correct answer.

1. Was George Washington ever a sailor?

    YES         NO

2. When you wake up in the morning and are still sleepy, you are.....

    Groggy     Giggly     Woggy     Woozy

3. The left side of a boat is the ________ side?

    Aft     Other     Port     Starboard

4. Which country was a maritime power in 1500 AD?

    Switzerland     America     England     Russia

5. When the cat is let out of the bag, a very _______ thing is going to happen.

    good     bad     historic     maritime

6. What did George Washington name his home?

    Mt. Sinai     Montebello     Mt. Vernon     Mt. Everest

7. The disease that you get when you don’t get enough vitamin C (oranges etc.), is

    scary         rickets         a bad cold     scurvy

8. Rum is made from.....

    potatoes     sugar cane     corn & rye     wheat

9 & 10. Draw a small ship with a square sail and a triangular sail

Quiz re. English Words and Expressions from the Sea (Middle and High School)

Name:                                                                     Date:                                

Period:                                                 Grade:                        

Fill in the blank.

1. Was George Washington ever a British Sailor?                 yes                  

2. When you wake up in the morning and are still sleepy, you are          groggy               .

3. The left side of a boat is called the         port                                          side?

Name 2 maritime powers circa 1500 AD?

4.          Holland / the Dutch      Spain                                                 

5.                England                                                  

6. George Washington named his home         Mt.Vernon                                                .

7. Scurvy is the disease that you get when you don’t get enough vitamin C (oranges etc.)

8. Rum is made from      sugar cane / molasses      .

9. The physical phenomenon that causes iron cannonballs to fall of brass racks is measured with the coefficient of   thermal expansion              .

10. Mixing rum and gunpowder tests the rum for                 proof                               .