Fun time Starting off @ Match the verbs in the box with a-j to form eisure activities. Which are shown in the pictures? collecting diving flying gong keeping playing saiing seeing sending surfing sailirg..... a boat friends dancing ina balloon unusual objects ‘computer games ‘the Internet text messages or emails fit underwater @ What's the best way to spend a day off? Put a-j in order, starting with the activity you most like (or ‘would like) to do, Compare your answers with a partner. @ Before you hear the recording, read the instructions in the box below and look at questions 1-4 on page 29. What kind of information, e.g. a place, must you listen for? Match a-d with questions 1-4. a areason b atime © the speaker's opinion d frequency @ @ Listen to the recording and answer the questions. You will hear @ man talking on the radio about four ways of spending a day out For each question, put a tick (7) in the correct box. Units1. The train leaves Fort William at A 12.25, B 10.20. oO © iso, O 2 Go Wild adventure courses are not dangerous because A_ you have to wear safety equipment. B somebody is always holding you. esl] ext © only adults can go on the course. 3. Passengers on the boat trip in Wales nearly always see A. sharks, B whales, © dotphias. oo 4. What does the speaker say about the hotair balloon flights? A. The route never changes. B They are alltte too short, OoooO0 © There are no flights in winter © Complete questions 1-7 with expressions from the recording using these words. Exam advice * Before you listen, look at each question and decide _ what kind of information you heed (¢.g. a date, a result, an attitude to something, etc). © When you first hear the recording, listen for details | F How old must goo be to take... pAb oon? shout this kind of information and choose the best | 2 What ave the opening ? answer. 3 How much is the adoission ? * Listen carefully the second time to check that you i 4 ls if good for noneg? i 3 5 What tine is the reborn at Vocabulary al Ce Ei en toe "| Negative prefixes is best to bos advice ahead fee hours journey pet value @ On the recording, Spencer Watson mentions ‘four = untsual ways to have a great day out’. Make these adjectives negative by writing im, in- or un- on @ Work in pairs. Decide which of the four activities from the recording you would most like to do. ie ‘Then ask your partner about other interesting fit, fais, healthy ways of spending a day out (€.g. sightseeing, correct, dependent, active visitieg a uaseum or art gallery). Ask some of the possible, polite, probable questions from Exereise 3, Fun time@ Add im, in- or un- to these words and complete the sentences. direct formal kind patient tidy true 1 The express train is faster, but the......#sdmect. route through the hills is more beautiful 2 always put everything in its place, but my brother's room is very... wai 3 Teenagers often use language vwhen they talk to their friends. 4 its to say that somebody else isn’t good at sport 5 Its completely Kind of fish. 6 When wo arrived at the theme park, we were to start going on the rides, that dolphins are a © Complete these sentences with information that is true for you. I think it’s unhealthy to ¢at.a dat of. cakes Is unusual for me 10 T's impossible for me to J think it's very unlucky to I think it’s quite unfair to {don’t want to be unfit because aneune Reading Part 4 © Look atthe pictures in the newspaper report and answer these questions. Would you like to be on the boat in the first pleture? Why (no:}e * How old do you think the boy in the second. picture is? + Do you think someone of that age is old enaugh to be out at sea on their own? @ Question 1 in Reading Part 4 is usually about the purpose of the text. Quickly read the text and complete this statement. Use your own words. The writer's main purpose is to © Look at options A, B, C and D. Which is closest to your answer in Exercise 2? ‘A To warn young people to take care at sea B To describe a great achievement by a boy € To encourage teenagers to take up sailing D To explain how to become an expert sailor a hence) ee and became the youngest person to cross the Atlantic alone. After an amazing 5,600-kilometre voyage lasting sicand-<:half weeks, Michael's achievement beat the previous record set by 15-year-old Sebastian Clover. Looking smart and relaxed in a white T-shirt and baseball cap, the teenager got off his 8-metre boat = called Cheeky Monkey —and walked through the shuge crowd waiting for him on the Caribbean iskand. ‘It feels fantastic being back on dry land ~ really brilliant, he said. ‘'m looking forward to a comfortable bed and a great dinner. [don't care what iti, 7 enjoy eating anything that’s aot out of a cant’ “The idea for the voyage began when Michael was ‘11and he sawa television film of Sebastian Clover crossing the Atlantic, Fascinated, he later attended a talk by Sebastian and told his father, an experienced sailor, that he too would like to break the record. Mr ‘Perham agreed to teach him how to sal, and he soon tealised that his son had the ability and the courage to turn his dream into reality. Three years later, Michael ‘was ready to set out on his great adventure,