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Page 1: Listening Extreme experiences. Describe your coldest, hottest or wettest experiences. Work in groups of 4:

ListeningExtreme experiences

Page 2: Listening Extreme experiences. Describe your coldest, hottest or wettest experiences. Work in groups of 4:

Describe your coldest, hottest or wettest experiences.

Work in groups of 4:

Page 3: Listening Extreme experiences. Describe your coldest, hottest or wettest experiences. Work in groups of 4:

Useful vocabularies:

• Which words are connected with ‘hot’ and which ones with ‘cold’?

stuffy bitter frozen

boiling artic icy

scorching freezing sweating

heat exhaustion below zero

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Answers:

• Hot:– Stuffy: when there isn’t enough air in a room.– Sweating: producing drops of liquid on the skin

because it’s hot.– Boiling: extremely hot )as if the temperature was

high enough to make water boil)– Scorching: extremely hot (in the sun)– Heat exhaustion: a medical condition resulting

form being in the heat for too long

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• Cold:– Bitter: when the air is biting cold– Frozen: literally turned to ice, but used to mean

‘very cold’– Arctic: meaning that the weather is similar to that

at the North Pole– Icy: when water had turned to ice– Freezing: similar to ‘frozen’– Blow zero: used to describe freezing

temperatures

Page 6: Listening Extreme experiences. Describe your coldest, hottest or wettest experiences. Work in groups of 4:

You are going to listen to Simone and Anna recalling their experiences of heat and cold. Look at the words and discuss what you think happen.

Simone

a night club

the pyramids

sunrise

a taxi

a motorbike

heat exhaustion

rehydration salts

Anna

a tram

scarves

frozen nostril

an anonymous landscape

huge blocks of flats

an old lady

bonfires

Page 7: Listening Extreme experiences. Describe your coldest, hottest or wettest experiences. Work in groups of 4:

Listen to Simone and answer the questions:

1. Where was she?2. What was the temperature?3. What did she do that was stupid or silly?4. What kind(s) of transport did she use?5. Where was she going to? Why?6. What did she see when she arrived?7. Who did she met? Was this person helpful?8. How did the temperature affect her?9. What happened in the end?

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Answers:

1. Cairo

2. Between 40 and 45 degrees centigrade.

3. She decides to go dancing, danced for hours, and got dehydrated.

4. Taxi and motorbike.

5. The pyramids – she wanted to see the sunrise.

6. The sun was just starting to come up.

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7. A man in a village with a motorbike. He lent/hired out his motorbike to them.

8. She became dehydrated, lost energy, then, back home, felt strange. She has a headache. She felt confused, sick, nauseous. Her brain didn’t work properly. She was suffering form heat exhaustion.

9. She learnt a lesson on how to behave in such high temperatures. She always carries rehydration salts now,

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Listen to Anna and answer the questions:

1. Where was she?2. What was the temperature?3. What did she do that was stupid or silly?4. What kind(s) of transport did she use?5. Where was she going to? Why?6. What did she see when she arrived?7. Who did she met? Was this person helpful?8. How did the temperature affect her?9. What happened in the end?

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Answers:

1. In a small town un central Russia.

2. -30o or colder.

3. She wanted to be independent so she told her friends she could find their house – no problem. She should have let her friends meet her at the tram stop.

4. Tram.

5. To see some friends.

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6. Huge snow-covered white blocks, 15 or 16 floors high.

7. An old lady. She wasn’t helpful.

8. Her feet and hands were beyond hurting – she couldn’t feel them. It was difficult to breathe.

9. Her friends came to find her and took her home.

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Complete the sentences with the adverbs used by Simone and Anna

1. It was _________ and ______ we decided to go dancing.

2. We were sweating ________.3. The temperature rises __________.4. My brain wasn’t working _________.5. It was __________ anonymous, this landscape.6. They all looked ________ the same.7. I was beginning to _________, ________ panic.

completely dramatically exactlyextremely

profusely properly really seriously stupidly

extremely stupidly

profusely (= very much)

dramaticallyproperly

completely

exactly

really seriously