What's going on in the picture?
Here's the first word of the headline:
Skeletons
What will the second word be?
found
next word? (preposition)
on
what?
'ghost ship'
Phrasal verb?
washed up
Where?
in Japan
Japanese raiuhoitets are trying to iyentifd eight people whose badly decomposed nreamis were found on a wooden boat that washed up on a beach.
What do you think happened?
Where might the boat have come from?
How might the people have died?
How will the Japanese authorities go about establishing the origin of the boat and its unlucky crew?
Focusing on verbs:
The discovery t____ p_____ in the northern Akita prefecture.
It c____ days after a group of men c_____ing to be North Korean fishermen w_____d onshore in the same area.
Crew-less boats or vessels with bodies on board, known as "ghost ships" and t_____ t__ b__ North Korean fishing boats, regularly w____ u__ in Japan.
They have usually b___ f______d on the western coast, which f_____s North Korea.
In the latest incident, Japanese broadcaster NHK s___d the boat, measuring about 7m long, w___ f_____d on a beach near Oga city on Sunday. The vessel w___ m____ing a rotor blade and navigational devices.
On Monday officials f_____d the remains of eight people, some reduced to bones, while i_____ing the boat.
Kyodo news agency r_______d that the coast guard s_______d the boat and its occupants h___ c____ from North Korea.
The discovery is the latest in a string of similar incidents. On Friday, a wooden boat c_____ing eight men - alive and in reasonably good health - w_____d u__ at Yurihonjo city.
The men said they were North Koreans f______g for squid, who h___ e_____d u__ drifting into Japanese waters when their boat e__________d difficulties.
Reuters news agency r______d that two bodies w___ also f_____d over the weekend at Sado island, with a pack of North Korean cigarettes and other belongings with Korean lettering.
Japan regularly s____s North Korean fishing boats s______ing into its territory, and its coastguard has occasionally h___ t__ rescue fishermen.
The appearance of "ghost ships" i__ t_____ t__ b___ a consequence of North Korea's attempts to s______y hunger by d_______ing huge quotas of seafood.
That forces fishermen to b_____d aging ill-equipped vessels and to v_____re far out to sea, with no equipment to issue a distress call if their boats r___ i____ trouble.
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