Risky sports Why are they doing it Made
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Risky sports Why are they doing it? Made by Kochan Leonid
What do these sports have in common?
What kind of risky sports do you know? • • • Skydiving Snow boarding Rock climbing Surfing Mountaineering Abseiling • • Scuba-diving Bungee jumping Potholing White-water rafting • Car racing
Match the definition, the name of the sport and the picture • It is the process of descending on a fixed rope • It’s jumping from an airplane with parachute • It is using self-contained breathing equipment to stay underwater for periods of time greater than human breath-holding ability allows. • It is an activity using a raft to navigate a river. It is the act of ascending steep rock formations. • It is a sport involving racing automobiles. • It is an activity in which a person jumps off from a high place with one end of an elastic cord attached to his/her body or ankles and the other end tied to the jumping-off point. • It is the sport of walking, hiking and climbing up mountains • It is the sport of climbing down inside large holes which go deep underground in a rocky country. • It is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried by a breaking wave on a surfboard. • • • Car racing Mountaineering Potholing Rock climbing Surfing Bungee jumping Skydiving White-water rafting Abseiling Scuba diving
Why do some people go in for risky sports? And why are some people against risk taking?
Why do people go in for risky sports? • • • to go to extremes to overcome difficulties for the thrill and excitement to acquire self-confidence to satisfy their curiosity
Arguments against risk taking • • Risky sports are dangerous Taking risks is useless and silly You need expensive equipment We have only one life
Are you for or against risky sports? Would you like to try any of them? FOR • I am absolutely for… • People take risks because… • Life without risk is… • I’d like to go in for…because… AGAINST • As for me, I am not a risk taker • I can never understand… • I am sure I wouldn’t try…because…
Don’t forget to write down your homework!
Mikael ferm
Risky adventure sports
Why are they doing this
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Anything worth doing is not necessarily worth doing well
Doing nothing is doing ill
Look at the following pictures what are they doing
What are they doing now?
Discuss what the people are doing in the pictures
Look a picture
What are they doing in the picture
