BLACK BEARD (Level Starter)

The year is 1717. It is a bad time to be the captain of a ship in the Caribbean because of pirates. The most frightening pirate on the sea is Edward Teach, or 'Blackbeard'.

'The Governor of Virginia wants us all dead!' Blackbeard thinks. 'But can he kill me - the most famous pirate in the Caribbean? No!'

This is his story...

BLACK BEARD

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Vocabulary:

1. captain: the most important man on a ship
2. ship: you use a ship to go across the water
3. pirate; someone who takes ships and the things on them without asking
4. attack: to begin fighting
5. famous: that everybody knows
6. capture: to take and not give away
7. queen: the most important woman in a country
8. war: fighting between countries or people
9. sailor: a man who works on a ship
10. crew: all the people who work on a ship
11. aboard: on or onto a ship
12. throw: to make something move from your hand through the air
13. lookout: a sailor who looks to see what in front of the ship
14. starboard: the right of a ship
15. mast: the tall thing on an old ship which was the sails on it, and where a lookout sits
16. gun: a ship can fight with this
17. fight: when you hit someone many times
18. gold: an expensive yellow metal
19. sir: you say this when you talk to an important man
20. cabin: a room on a ship
21. revenge: when you do something bad to someone after they do something bad to you
22. island: a country in the sea
23. ashore: on or onto the land
24. sail: to go across the water
25. wife: a woman living with a man
26. adventure: something very exciting that happens to you
27. aye: a sailor's 'Yes'
28. terror: a feeling of being afraid
29. beard: the hair on a man's face
30. frightening: making people afraid
31. governor: a person who looks after a far country for a king or queen
32. lieutenant: an officer on a ship
33. royal navy: all the kings' or queens' ships
34. fire: to attack with a gun
35. boat: a little ship
36. small: little
37. jump: to move fast on your legs from one thing to a different thing
38. pistol: a kind of gun, person can kill someone with this
39. sword: a long knife that you fight with
40. medicine: something that you eat or drink to help you get better when you are ill
41. doctor: a person who helps people when they are ill
42. fever: when you get very hot because you are ill
43. surrender: to stop fighting because you cannot win
44. councillor: an important man that looks after a town
45. letter: you write this to tell something to someone
46. send: to give something to someone to take somewhere
47. chest: a big box to put things in
48. pardon: a letter from someone important which says that someone bad does not need to die
49. king: the most important man in a country
50. sugar: this is white or brown and sweet
51. abandoned: with no men on it
52. blockade: when someone stops ships arriving or leaving a town by the sea
53. topsail: this sail goes up near the top of the mast
54. inlet: a small arm of the sea that has land to left and right
55. aground: on land that is not under much water, from which it is difficult for a ship to move
56. rum: an alcoholic drink made from sugar
57. treasure: something expensive, like gold
58. catch: to take quickly
59. anchor: a heavy metal thing that a ship puts down into the water when it wants to stop somewhere
60. deck: where you walk on a ship
61. below: under
62. break: to make one thing into two things when you hit it
63. fall: to go down suddenly
64. wound: a hole in the body from a knife or a pistol
65. escape: to get away
66. legend: an old story - half true, half not true