Lesson 2 Extreme Sports sky surfing bungee jumping

Lesson 2 Extreme Sports

sky surfing

bungee jumping

snow boarding

white-water rafting

ice diving

1. People do extreme sports in order to feel ____. A. C. happy A excited B. nervous 2. Extreme sports have become popular in the last _____. B 10 years C. 20 years A. 5 years B.

3. People usually bungee jump from __. A. airplanes B. high buildings C bridges C. 4. In sky surfing people do mid-air ___. A gymnastics A. B. dancing C. swimming

5. Snowboarding has similarities with ______. A. skiing B. B surfing C. canoeing 6. Snowrafting is ____. A. quite dangerous B. B very dangerous C. not very dangerous

7. For white-water rafting you need __. A. a big river B. a warm river C a mountain river C. 8. Ice divers ___. A. swim under the ice B. walk on the bottom of lakes C walk upside down under the ice C.

Listen to two people talking about extreme sports. Complete the table. Sports likes doesn’t like would like to try wouldn’t like to try Carol bungee jumping tennis Jonathan skiing/snow boarding sailing sky surfing ice diving snowrafting Bungee jumping

Listen and fill in the blank. 1. I get _______ nervous you know. But when I’m jumping I feel great. It’s like ______. being a bird 2. I’d love to try sky surfing, but it’s _______, very expensive you know.

3. I also don’t like dull _____. sports I hate _________. doing boring sports Like tennis. Personally, I’d prefer to ______. stay at home 4. I prefer _____ winter sports. There’s something about snow. I love ______. going skiing

5. I love sports where there’s speed. I can’t ________. stand slow sports 6. I’d quite like to go ice diving_______! it sounds crazy 7. I can’t stand heights. I’d hate to do _______. bungee jumping It look _____ absolutely _____. terrifying

Listen again. Complete the Function File with the following words. quite like, ’d love, like, prefer, can’t stand, wouldn’t like, ’d quite hate, ’d prefer

Preferences +ing/noun +to+infinitive 1. I ____ like bungee jumping. 2. I ’d ______ love to try sky surfing. 3. I ______ wouldn’t like to do snowrafting. 4. I ____ hate doing boring sports. 5. I ____ ’d prefer to stay at home.

6. I ______ prefer winter sports. 7. I ____ love going skiing. 8. I _____ quite like snowboarding. 9. I _____ can’t stand slow sports. 10. I ’d ______ quite like to go ice diving.

Complete the sentences in the correct form. turn up, be into, take up, back out, go through with, put on, set up, get across 1. Ann waited for Tom for ages but he didn’t _______. turn up

2. What kind of music ___ into are you ____? 3. A friend of mine ___ taken up has just ____ jogging in order to get fit. 4. Why don’t we ______our computer set up in the study? 5. They were going to have a party last Saturday but _____ backed out at the last minute.

Listen to the questions below. In which of them does the intonation go up at the end? 1. What sports do you like doing? 2. Do you like watching sport on TV? 3. Have you ever turned up late for a match?

4. If your school asked you to be in a team, would you try to back out? 5. Do you think you’ll ever take up a dangerous sport? 6. What extreme sports would like to try? 7. What extreme sports couldn’t you go through with?

8. Have you ever watched extreme sports on TV?

Do you find out the “rule” about intonation in questions? The falling intonation is used in questionword questions, i. e. beginning with ‘wh-’ The rising intonation is used in questions that can be answered by ‘yes/no’

Comparing Cultures Listen to a person talking about sports in the USA and Britain and answer these questions

1. What do American footballs have to wear? Why? They have to wear helmets and special protective clothes because it is a very physical game and they could get hurt.

2. How many baseball leagues are there in the USA? Two. 3. Are basketball players well paid? Yes. 4. Is football (score) very popular in the USA? No.

5. What is the most popular winter sport in Britain? Football. 6. Name another winter sport played in Britain. Rugby. 7. How long can a game of cricket be? Five days.

Are any of these sports popular in China?

Homework Finish Exercise 7 on P 25.