8th form "The Mystery of Loch Ness" Grammar / Vocabulary

1. If you ____ at the map of Scotland, you will find that there are many lakes in the country. The Scots call them "locks".

2. And ____ of them is Loch Ness. According to the scientists it is 25,000 years old.

3. Loch Ness is a mysterious lake. For many years there have been reports of an ____ and great creature.

4. People tell many stories about a water monster ____ lives in the lake. They call it Nessie.

5. People, who said they ____ Nessie, described it as a strange creature which had a giraffe-like neck, a very small head and a great dark grey body.

6. The stories of this mysterious creature, called the "Loch Ness Monster" have filled the people ____ excitment and curiosity.

7. Many visitors and newspaper reporters have tried ____ the monster.

8. Not only newspaper reporters and curious visitors take a great interest ____ the Loch Ness Monster. Scientists do not like mysteries, they want facts.

9. Expeditions of British, American and Canadian scientists took more than 100,000 underwater photographs in Loch Ness, but they didn't help ____ whether the monster really exist.

10. A lot _____ and written about the monster. There even exist the Nessie Museum.

11. For some people Nessie is a good business: T-shirts with "Nessie" on them, books about the monster and all kinds of picture postcards ____ to thousands of visitors every year.

12. Is the monster a fact or fiction? The mystery of Loch Ness ____ a mystery.