In the north of Scotland there is a very famous lake - Loch Ness. It is not the largest lake in Britain, but it is thirty-five kilometers long. The water of the lake is dark and
the news from time to time. For many years there have been reports of unusual, large animals in the lake. There are a lot of stories about the water monster "Nessie". One of them says, for example, that one early Sunday morning a young woman looked out of the house near the lake and saw in the waters of the loch Ness the "largest animal she had ever seen". It had, she said later, a giraffe-like neck, a very small head and a great dark grey body.
Sea, but came to the lake to produce their young in it. After volcanic action in this area, some of them could not come back to the North Sea and stayed in Loch Ness. They continued to live there.
Слайд 7
Underwater photographs did not help to see the
monster. Expeditions of British, American and Canadian scientists took
more than one hundred thousand underwater photographs in Loch Ness, but not one of them was a picture of a large animal.
Слайд 8
Year after year thousands of tourists come to
Loch Ness in the hope to see the monster.
Слайд 9
For some people Nessie is good business: T-shirt
with "Nessie" on them, books about the monster, souvenirs