Language exam practice
Q3a Answers will be posted next week. 1 week to attempt this. Keep your answer safe so you can then self-assess.

The fleet entered the Magellan Strait with the southern winter already begun. A sailor's frostbitten nose fell off when he blew it. Beyond Cape Froward, they ran into north-westerly gales and sheltered in a tight cove with the wind howling over their mastheads.
In a storm off Cape Pilar, the Desire lost the Pinnance, which went down with all hands. Davis was alone at the helm, praying for a speedy end, when the sun broke through the clouds. He took bearings, fixed his position, and so regained the calmer water of the Strait.
He sailed back to Port Desire, the crew scurvied and mutinous and the lice lying in their flesh. He repaired the ship as best he could. The men lived off eggs, gulls, baby seals, scurvy grass and the fish called pejerry. On this diet they were restored to health.
Ten miles down the coast, there was an island, the original Penguin Island, where the sailors clubbed twenty thousand birds to death. They had no natural enemies and were unafraid of their murderers. John Davis ordered the penguins dried and salted and stowed fourteen thousand in the hold.
On November 11th a war-party of Tehuelche Indians attacked. Nine men died in the skirmish, among them the chief mutineers, Parker and Smith.
The Desire sailed at nightfall on December 22nd and set course for Brazil, where the Captain hoped to provision with cassava flour. On January30th he made land at the Isle of Plasencia, off Rio de Janeiro. The men foraged for fruit and vegetables in gardens belonging to the Indians.
Six days later, the coopers went with a landing party to gather hoops for barrels. The day was hot and the men were bathing, unguarded, when a mob of Indians and Portuguese attacked. The Captain sent a boat crew ashore and they found the thirteen men, faces upturned to heaven, laid in a rank with a cross set by them.
John Davis saw pinnaces sailing out of Rio harbour. He made for open sea. He had no other choice. HE had eights casks of water and they were fouled.
As they came up to the Equator, the penguins took their revenge. In them bred a "loathsome worme" about an inch long. The worms ate everything, iron only excepted - clothing, bedding, boots, hats, leather lashings, and live human flesh. The worms gnawed through the ship's side and threatened to sink her.

3a) What difficulties were met by Davis and his crew and how did they try to cope with them? Write your answer using short notes (bullet points) aiming to find 10 points.

3b) Now use your notes to write a summary of the difficulties met by Davis and his crew, and how they tried to cope with them.
Your summary should be in continuous writing and use your own words as far as possible. It shold include all 10 points from 3a. 100-150 words.