This is our lesson number 11. Today we're going to practise reading and listening.

1- Read an article about a girl called Helen Skelton, who agreed to kayak down the Amazon for charity. Read the introduction and answer the questions (pages 20,21 SB):




a- What did Helen do last year for  charity?
b- What is she hoping to do this year?
c- What is dangerous about the trip?
d- What experience does she have?

2- Read phone calls 1-3 and complete the gaps with the correct word. Then listen and check.






PHONE CALLS 1-3 (click here)


3- Listen to the rest of Helen's journey down the Amazon and answer the questions:

4- Are there any new words/ phrases? Copy them and look them up in a dictionary.

Now let's work with vocabulary and pronunciation. Look and learn information about strong adjectives:

5- Complete the sentences with a normal adjective from this list:

afraid - hungry - surprise - big- dirty - funny - happy - small - angry cold - sure - nice - hilarious


HOMEWORK:
Activity 4, a  and b from page 16 WB. (Send me a photo of these activities to my mail)  

KEY TO THE EXERCISES ABOVE:
ACTIVITY 1:
a- She ran the 78-mile Ultra Marathon in Namibia. // She ran three consecutive marathons.
b- To kayak 3200 kilometres down the Amazon.
c- The river is full of crocodiles. She will be a long way from civilization, so if something happens to her, it will take a long time to get to a hospital.
d- She has only been kayaking once before.

 ACTIVITY 2:
1- b- behind                              6- c- chocolate
2- c- boiling                              7- b- paddle
3- a- exhausted                         8- a- boring
4- b- up                                     9- c- feeling
5- b- wide                                10- a- sick

 ACTIVITY 3:
1- Because her iPod broke.
2- She counts or names countries in her hand, and sometimes she just looks up ta the sky.
3- Because she's superstitious.
4- Mosquitoes.
5- Dolphins, enormous butterflies, iguanas, and vultures.
6- Because her adventure is coming to an end.
7- 3,200.
8- Six weeks.
9- Her dog.
10-Take her dog for a long walk.

 ACTIVITY 5:
2- small                                        8- dirty
3- afraid                                       9- happy
4- nice                                         10- funny
5- hungry                                    11- sure
6- big                                          12- surprised
7- cold


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