Gilligan’s Island
Gilligan’s Island
Vocabulary
| tale | sit back | sit/sat/sat |
| tail | trip (2) | thing (2) |
| port | fearless | do their very best |
| tiny | mighty | stranded |
| mate | nest (2) | passenger |
| tour | set sail | first mate |
| uphill | courage | aground |
| tropic | minnow | lose/lost/lost |
| shore | charted | desert (2) |
| isle | star (2) | millionaire |
| verse | tossed | castaway |
| climb | fateful | uphill climb (2) |
| brave | join (3) | make/made/made |
| tropic | skipper | make the best of things |
| island | luxury | primitive |
| rough | Robinson Crusoe |
Video
Transcript
Opening Verse
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man, the Skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day, for a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew the Minnow would be lost. The Minnow would be lost.
The ship aground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle with Gilligan, the Skipper too. A millionaire and his wife, a movie star, the proffessor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan’s Isle.
Ending Verse
So this is the tale of our castaways, there here for a long long time. They’ll have to make the best of things, it’s an uphill climb.
The first mate and his Skipper too will do their very best, to make the others comfortable in their tropic island nest.
No phone ,no lights, no motor car, not a single luxury, like Robinson Crusoe it’s primitive as can be.
So join us here each week my friends, you’re sure to get a smile, from seven stranded castaways here on Gilligan’s Isle!
Questions
1. This TV odyssey began in the center of Australia (or Canada, United States, Russia). True or false?
2. Passengers flew on an airplane. Is this right or wrong?
3. Did the ship encounter any problems? What happened?
4. The ship returned to its harbor. Is this correct or incorrect?
5. How many people were on board the ship? Were they all students and a teacher on an excursion? Who were they?
6. They lived in a resort city and stayed in hotels, ate in restaurants and went shopping and had parties. Yes or no?
7. Did others (people in the US, Canada, Australia) know where they were? Did they get rescued?
A. I have sailed on a boat or ship. Yes or no?
B. Have you or your friends ever been on an island? Describe it.
C. Are there places with no electricity, water, telephones or internet?
D. I would like to live on Gilligan’s Island.
E. Would you like to live in a village or small town, permanantly?
F. What might happen in the future?
