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5B Extreme Earth
5B
Extreme�Earth
Spread aims
Grammar: superlative of adjectives;
have to
Vocabulary: geographical features
Functions: talking about extreme
activities
Reading about extreme places
KEY
2 a waterfall, a cave, a desert,
a river
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Vocabulary: habitats
Read through the words with students
and ensure that they are familiar with
them. Use the Vocabulary Explorer
section on page 107, if necessary, to
present and practise the words. Give
the students two or three minutes
to discuss the question, then ask the
class to call out their ideas.
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Extreme Explorer
Trips of a
lifetime!
Jump from the highest
waterfall.
Explore the deepest cave.
Trek across the hottest desert.
Sleep on the coldest continent.
Dive in the largest reef.
Sail the biggest river.
Vocabulary
Reading and listening
for detail
the places that you have
in your country. Can you
name some of them?
5.4 CD 1 track 52
a cave a desert
a forest a lake
a mountain a river
a valley a waterfall
Students list the types of places listed
in the text, using the words from the
box in Exercise 1.
See Vocabulary Explorer: Page 1077
Extension: ask students to list all
the named places (e.g. Angel Falls,
Antarctica) that are mentioned in
the text, or ask them to call out the
names and write them up on the
board. This will help students with
some of the following exercises.
Background information: basejumping is a very dangerous extreme
sport. Jumpers use ‘wing-suits’ and
parachutes and jump from high places.
The activity is often illegal and there
are often serious injuries and fatalities.
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Reading for detail
2
5.4 Read and listen to
the text. Which places in
Exercise 1 are in the text?
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Grammar: identifying
superlatives
Weaker students: you could help
students by suggesting that they
look for all the words they can find
ending in -est first, then look for the
other three.
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4
Students can modify the example
sentence given to write a sentence
about each place mentioned.
Weaker students: help students by
indicating that answers to 1 and 2
are to be found in the introductory
sentences; 3 in paragraph 1; 4 in
paragraph 3.
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Reading�and�listening
Help students look for the key words
which give away the kind of place
it is (1 swam, fish, sharks; 2 jumped;
3 penguins, cold).
Grammar presentation:
superlatives
Are you looking for an extreme experience? Are you
tough enough for the most difficult conditions on Earth?
What’s your wildest dream? Base jumping 979 metres
from Angel Falls or going 2.1 kilometres underground
into Krubera Cave?
Get ready for the most exciting experience of your life!
Perhaps you prefer a drier place, like a desert – how
o
about trekking across the Sahara in 58 C? Or how about
Antarctica? It’s the most hostile desert with only 5 cm rain
o
a year and temperatures of –80 C. It isn’t warm enough
for plants or animals to survive. Is this the worst place on
Earth for a holiday?
Alternatively, dive in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Tiny animals – corals – make coral reefs, and this is the
largest coral reef in the world. Or sail down the Amazon
River – 20 per cent of all the Earth’s fresh water is in this
river. Follow the river across South America, through
the world’s largest rainforest, and have the best holiday
possible.
1 Work in pairs. Tick (✓)
Grammar practice:
superlatives
Reinforcement: can write similar
sentences about places in their own
country (e.g. the highest mountain,
the longest river).
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Controlled writing practice
Extension: students make up similar
sentences of their own.
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Personalised speaking
practice
Students should give their personal
opinions. Brainstorm some phrases
for agreeing and disagreeing (e.g. No,
I don’t agree. Yes, I agree).
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Listening for gist
5.5 CD 1 track 53
If the students wrote a list of the
places in Exercise 2 they just have to
listen and tick the place on their list
that the photographer is talking about.
3 Read the text again. Match these comments with
the places.
1
2
3
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5.5 Listen to an interview with a photographer.
Which of the places on the webpage is he talking
about?
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5.5 Listen to the interview again and find out
about the special preparations that are necessary.
Are the sentences true or false?
‘I swam with the most beautiful fish on
Earth, but a shark almost came too close!’
Hiro, Sydney
‘It was the most exciting thing I did on my
holiday! But I was terrified when I jumped.’
Rosa, New Orleans
‘After my trip, I think penguins are the
toughest animals alive! It was too cold for
me!’
Ben, Dublin
Grammar:�superlative�adjectives
4 Complete the table with superlative adjectives
from the text.
Superlative
One syllable
high
hot
the (1)
the (2)
Ending in y
dry
the driest
Two or more
syllables
difficult
the (3)
/
least difficult
Irregular
good
bad
the best
the (4)
See Grammar Explorer: Page 125
5 How many superlative adjectives can you find
in the text? Work in pairs and compare with
your partner.
6 Write sentences about the places in the text. Use
superlative adjectives.
e.g. Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the
world.
7 Write the superlative forms of the adjectives.
Then complete the sentences with your ideas.
e.g. Coldplay are the best band in the world. (good)
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
is the
is the
is the
is the
was the
singer in the world. (bad)
sport. (dangerous)
subject at school. (easy)
place for a holiday. (interesting)
film last year. (exciting)
8 Work in pairs. Compare your sentences from
KEY
3 1 the Great Barrier Reef
2 Angel Falls 3 Antarctica
Cavers have to wear special clothes.
Cavers don’t have to wear helmets.
Cavers have to wear lights on their heads.
In Krubera Cave, people have to sleep
underground.
You have to do special training to camp in a cave.
4 1 highest
4 worst
11 Choose the correct option to make true
sentences.
e.g. cavers / wear helmets Cavers have to wear
helmets.
1
2
3
4
5
base-jumpers / wear a parachute
divers / use lights
mountain climbers / sleep on the mountain
teachers / do special training
we / wear a school uniform
7 1 the worst 2 the most
dangerous 3 the easiest
4 the most interesting 5 the
most exciting
Study�skills
9 Krubera Cave
2
3
See Grammar Explorer: Page 125–126
12 Work in pairs. Decide if the things are necessary
or unnecessary. Then write sentences with
have to / don’t have to.
10 1 true 2 false
5 false
Use different methods to help you remember
new words.
Look at the examples for helmet.
cave or on a motorbike.
2 Draw a picture of it.
3 Write it with a group of similar words.
helmet, jacket, boots, gloves
UNIT 5B EXTREME EARTH
EE: What’s it like to explore and take
photos of caves?
SA: Well, caves are cold, wet and dark
but they are also the most beautiful
and exciting places in the world.
EE: Are they dangerous?
SA: Yes, sometimes. So cavers have to
make special preparations.
EE: Can you give us an example?
SA: Well, it’s very cold and wet in a
cave. We have to wear special clothes
and helmets on our heads. And
it’s dark, so we have to take lights
into the cave. We wear them on our
helmets.
EE: Krubera cave is the deepest cave in
the world. How deep is it?
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SA: It’s over 2 kilometres deep now. It’s
too deep to go down and come out in
one day.
EE: How do the cavers explore it? Do
they have to sleep in the cave?
SA: Yes, they have to make camps
underground. In Krubera, cavers
camped underground for two weeks!
EE: Two weeks! Do you have to do
special training for underground
camps?
SA: No, special training isn’t necessary.
But you have to be quite tough!
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3 true
4 true
11 1 have to 2 don’t have to
3 Yes, they do
1 Write a sentence: You wear a helmet in a
e.g. A: Coldplay are the best band in the world.
B: Really? I think Franz Ferdinand are better!
They’re the best band in the world.
Tapescript
3 most
6 1 The Amazon is (possibly!)
the longest river in the
world. 2 The Sahara is the
biggest desert in the world.
3 Antarctica is the coldest
place on Earth. 4 The
Krubera Cave is the deepest
cave in the world. 5 The
Great Barrier Reef is the largest
coral reef on Earth.
Cavers have to / don’t have to take lights into
caves. = It’s necessary.
Cavers have to / don’t have to do special training.
= It’s not necessary.
Do cavers in Krubera have to camp underground?
Yes, they do. / No, they don’t. = It’s necessary.
Exercise 7.
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2 hottest
5 highest, deepest, hottest,
coldest, largest, biggest, most
difficult, wildest, most exciting,
most hostile, worst, best
Grammar:�have�to
1
Adjective
Skills
Listening
Listening for detail
5.5 CD 1 track 53
12 1 Base-jumpers have to
wear a parachute. 2 Divers
don’t have to use lights.
3 Mountain climbers have to
sleep on the mountain.
4 Teachers have to do special
training. 5 We (don’t) have
to wear a school uniform.
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Grammar: have to
Talk about the meaning of have to for
necessity with students. Elicit some
examples from them about their
daily lives (e.g. Everyone has to go to
school.) Students can also refer to the
Grammar Explorer on pages 125–126.
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Controlled writing practice
Students do the exercise in pairs,
then report back to class.
Study skills: learning new words
Discuss the content of the box with
students.
Ask students to read through the
sentences carefully before they listen.
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