WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS BORN?

Do you know if any famous actor / actress from Hollywood was born just the same day as you? Maybe you share the same birthday with Usain Bolt, or the Queen of England. Can you imagine? DBH 4 students are working on What happened when I was born? a project where they search for interesting events that happened in the past but just the same they were born, events that probably meant a big step forward to humankind, or backwards ...
For that they have to search through dates in history, a webpage where they are going to find a long list of interesting events that took place the same day they were born!
They also have to enlarge the brief information they find and look for more. They will face a variety of texts types that we will develop in class.
As an example, we have already analysed one, which refers to "The Empress of Ireland", a vessel that sank and caused a bigger tragedy than the Titanic one.
Here you have a video that explains what happened and gives you some information about that time. The soundtrack of this video belongs to the song "Sleeping Sun" by Nightwish. While you watch the video (or after, in a revision), try to get the words that are missing to complete the lyrics of the song clicking on the following exercise. In order to have no problems, you should open 2 windows at the same time (the video on the one hand, and the exercise)