EnglishExplorer
Jane Bailey
Język angielski dla gimnazjum
Podręcznik
2
Nagrania na
www.jezyki.nowaera.pl
N E W
5B
Extreme Earth
Extreme Explorer
Trips of a
lifetime!
Jump from the highest
waterfall.
cave.
Explore the deepest
Trek across the hottest desert.
Sleep on the coldest continent.
Dive in the largest reef.
Sail the biggest river.
Vocabulary
1 Work in pairs. Tick (✓)
the places that you have
in your country. Can you
name some of them?
a cave
a desert
a forest
a lake
a mountain a river
a valley
a waterfall
See Vocabulary Explorer: Page 107
Reading and listening
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5.4 Read and listen to
the text. Which places in
Exercise 1 are in the text?
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
Is this the worst place on
survive.
to
animals
or
for plants
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.
3 Read the text again. Match these comments with
the places.
1
2
3
9
‘I swam with the most beautiful fish on
Earth, but a shark almost came too close!’
10
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.
5.5 Listen to an interview with a photographer.
Which of the places on the webpage is he talking
about?
5.5 Listen to the interview again and find out
about the special preparations that are necessary.
Are the sentences true or false?
1
2
3
4
5
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)
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)
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
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.
Grammar: have to
11 Choose the correct option to make true
sentences.
1
Adjective
See Grammar Explorer: Page 125
1
2
3
4
5
Listening
2
3
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.
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.
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
Study skills
Use different methods to help you remember
new words.
Look at the examples for helmet.
1 Write a sentence: You wear a helmet in a
cave or on a motorbike.
2 Draw a picture of it.
3 Write it with a group of similar words.
helmet, jacket, boots, gloves
Exercise 7.
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.
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