11 September 2001

SEPTEMBER 11: TIMELINE VIDEOS

WTC   9/11             

Timeline: the following events took place in the USA on 11 September 2001, but they are not in the correct order. Can you rearrange them? Then choose the correct tenses to complete the sentences.

A-At about 10 a.m., the southern tower (collapse).

B-At 11:30 p.m. President Bush (enter) into his daily journal: “The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today… We think it’s Osama bin Laden.”

C-Later, the northern tower also (fall) in on itself.

D-Shortly after the World Trade Center catastrophe, at about 9:38 a.m, a Boeing 757 (crash) into the Pentagon.

E-The chaos (begin) at about 8:50 a.m.,

F-the president (address) the nation from the White House.

G-Evacuation  of the first tower (begin) at 9:00.

H-Then, at 9:04 a.m., another jet (crash) into the southern tower.

I-Later, at about 10:20 a.m., United Airlines Flight 93 (crash) in western Pennsylvania

J-While police and fire-fighters (try) to locate survivors in the rubble that had been the Twin Towers,

K-when a hijacked American Airlines passenger plane (smash) into the One World Trade Center.