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SH1SM PANCMA 8,013


7 famous

8 modest

9 accidental

f} Read the article. Choose the hest answers.


 

There is a popular saying in Japa nese:"There arc two kinds of fool*. Those who never climb Mount Everest and those who do it twice."

So what is Alan Hinkes? An 1a QY.flJl).[QJ!S.. fool perha ps?

This 51-year-old former geography teacher has clim bed all 14 of the world 's highest mounta i n s. More people have landed on the moon


1 A lan is from...


than have tried this extremely


d......................... achievement.


a) epal. @1he UK. c) Japa n.

2 A lan H inkes h as cl i m bed...

a) Everest 14 t imes.


The world 's tallest mountai ns are all in Nepal and Pakistan.

They are over 8,000 metres high. At this height helicopters can not rescue peopl e and the phy ical demands are 3c................................ When you finally reach the top of a mountain, there's no time to


b) 14 mou n tain s in 1 epal and Paki st an.


celebrate - it's


i.......... to remember that you have to get


 
c) 1he 14 t allest m ou n tai ns in 1hc world.

3 A lan climbs m ou nia i n s because...

a) h e loves doi ng il.

b) h e doesn't li ke t eachi ng any more.

c) h e get s a l ot of mon ey for it.

4 A la n h u n h is back...

a) in a sn owstorm.

b) beca use h e sn eezed.

c) whe n h e fell.

5 To pay for h is t rips, Ala n...

a) speaks about h is adven tu res.

b) m akes film s aboul climbi ng.

c) bot h a) a nd b).

6 In his cou n t ry, Ala n is...

a) very well- kn own.

b) a h ero t o some peo pl e.

c) a schoolteacher.


down the mountai n again.

Alan's been climbing mou ntai ns since he was teenager. "I'm add icted to it," he says. However, there has been some

5s...................... in his adventures. I n 1995 he was climbi ng K2 with his close friend Alison Hargrea ves. Near the top, they separated and Alan contin ued to clim b alone. Alison and six other people later d ied in a snowstorm.

One of Ala n's most 6s................................ in jurie s on a mou ntai n was rather un usual. He was eating a cha pati - a type of Indian bread - when the nou r got u p hi s nose and he sneezed *. He

in jured his back and had to be rescued by helicopter. Despite his amazing achievement, Hi nkes is not

7f.......... His 8m................... mean s that people

remember hi m more for the chapati 9a............................... than the mou ntains he's climbed. Each tri p costs him about £30,000 and he raises t he money by givi ng tal ks and selling videos of his clim bs. Now, ma ny people want hi m to recei ve a knighthood · from the Queen. Perhaps the 'fool' Alan Hinkes will soon be

Sir Ala n Hinkes...

 

*f ool = st upid person

*sncc:::c = when •ou sneeze, air comes ou t of your nose an d mout h i n a W•"· 1ou ca 11·1 coni rol

*J111igl11/11;11d = an awa rd from 1he Queen of England for doing

somet hing special


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Review: prepositions with adjectives

Choose t he correct preposi tion. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.

I'm feeli ng very nervo u s @!Q!at the flight next week. I'm really scared with/of/at 11ying.

2 I'm fed u p by/with/on my h u sband's snori n g and h e gets ann oyed about/with/of m e when I wa ke him u p.

3 The ma nager didn't seem con cerned with/about/by

ou r worries and we \ve re so a ngry at/on/with h im


 

 

e
Fill in t h e ga ps in t he conversat ion s wi t h t he ph rases in t he boxes.

 

.are the besr 's the best 'd recommend sounds wonderful wo uldn't go really useful

 

AN N You've bee n to I ndia, Louise. Wh at

1 arg_ th..b_g.t. places to visi t?


LOUISE I


..•..... ·•··•·•·••·•••••••••••••·•·••••••••••• ••·•• Kerala - i n th e


t hat we ch ecked ou t ea rly.

4 Ni kk i was very upset of/by/about splitting u p wi t h


sou t h. Bea u tifu l lakes, canals... it's l i ke pa radise.


Mar k, bm she t old m e she was fed u p of/at/with


AN N That


••.•••...•••.•...... • ••••••••••••••• •••••• • Wha t


hi m goi ng ou t every n igh t.

Asking for and making recommendations ED

I} a) Make questions with these words.

k n ow I Do I any good I stay I pl aces I t o I you?

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2 any th i n g I \VO rt h / l s I seei n g h ere I t here?

 

 

3 tips I got I ot her / I lave I you I any?

 

 

4 near I abou t I sea I places I Wh a t / t he?


·························· ti me of yea r to visit?

LOUISE Well, I ·······-·············································· be twee n

Septem ber and J an uary. I t can be really wet t hen.

AN N That 's 6

 

to know bother should go to Do you know any And is there

 

AN N good p laces to st ay?

LOUISE Yes, bu t don't 8.............• •.•...........••••. booki ng i n advan ce. It 's ch eaper to get a ho tel t here.


 

 

s place I a I t h e I to I Wh at's I best I ca r I hi re?


AN N


Th at's good 9••••••••••••••••• • ••••••

10...... anyt h i ng else

worth visi ti ng i n t he south?


LOUISE Of course. I nd ia's a big place. If you li ke


b) Complete the conversations wit h the sentences i n 1a).


beach es, you


.......••••••....••.•••..••••••......... Goa.


1 A .0..Q.YQ.l.!..K.f'.l.Q.W.fll1Y.9P.9.d p/?($.JQ. J?.y?.....

B Sorry, n o. Bu t I wo ul d n't recom m end a n ywhere n ea r t h e sta t ion.

2 A............................................

B I'd reco mmend on e of t he com pa n ies at t he


I've heard And what about You really must

It's probably best Have you got any

 

AN N........................ m oney?


airport.

 

3 A

B Yes. You shou ld definitely visi t t h e cath ed ral.


LOUISE

 

AN N


t o ta ke cash.

Credit cards aren't very useful ou tside hig ci t ies.

 
R igh t...•..••••••••• ••...•.••• • •.••••••••• ot her t i ps?


 

4 A

B It isn 't reall y worth going th ere. The beach es a re qu i t e dirty.


LOUISE Lots. 15...................••.....••••••......••••.......... vi si t on e big city. I n dian cit i es a rc j u st incred i bl e.


ANN Yes,

S A


••••••••••••............................ t hat.


B Yes. You sh oul d learn a bi t of t he lan guage. It


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really he l ps. •


 

 
4 Born to be wild

Language Summary 4, Student's Book p122

 


Riders

Music collocations ED

"Fill in t he ga ps with t he correct form of these verbs.

 

see go (x 2) play appea r have


Seven things you didn't know about ••

 
Rack and Pap

+ In 1958, while Elvis '_Wg.$.. m.lng. (earn)

 
$400,000 a month, he had to go into the army. His salary •.••••••••·-· - ··---·-··- (go) down to $78

a month.

+ In 1959, a teacher J---·--- ---··(throw) a 16-year-old Jimi Hendrix out of school because he


 
 
-··----· _--········--(hold) the hand of a white girl in

his class.

+ In April 1964, while the Beatles s·····- ··-···················....... (finish) their second album,


they
6

··-··············-···----.

 

US charts.


(have) hit records in all of the top S positions in the


 

 

Nowadays the business of selling music is a little more complicated than simply

 
••rnf.gf.f]g. a new album. Groups also

have to promote their records so they


+ In 1963. Roy Orbison 7---·····-·····-·......... (be) on tour with the Beatles. He

-·- ··- -·--··
···············-·· (wear) sunglasses because he couldn't find his glasses. He liked the look so much that for the rest of his career he only 9

(wear) sunglasses.


have to 2.. ········-··--···· on TV


+ In 1970, while the rock group Pink Floyd


•••.••••••


(playing) in front of


and talk about the new album.What's


a large lake in London, the music " -·········-···· ···-·- (be) so loud that some of


more, fans like


 

 

·- ···--········


the fish in the lake


• -· (die).


their favourite group play live so groups


+ Sheryl Crowe n·-··- (lose) her two front teeth when she


also have to 4

.
tour. 5 ···········


........................... on

-········· onstage


-·········· ••• ··············-········ (be) eight. Over lS years later she

 
. (sing) in a bar when a


and 6• • •••••••••.


concerts


waitress accidentally


•••• _


(hit)


every night is exhausting, but ii you want to 7.·-····............ analbum in the charts, you have to promote it!


her with a glass. The same two front teeth

-···············-···-·············-··(fall) out.

+ In 2000. while Madonna 18_ -···

(stay) in Sweden for the MTV Music Awards. she


••••••••.• ••••• ••••••••••••••• ··-· (ask) the hotel to change the


 
Past Simple and Past Continuous


colour of the room. She 10 -··-.•• ········-········-· •


(want) a 'calm


·
ED

f) Fill i n the gaps with t he verhs in brackets. Use the Past Simple or Past Contin uous.


colour' to help her meditate. Madonna 11.·--··---·········-----···(not joke) and the hotel immediately 11 •••••• -·····- •. (paint) the room.


 

used to ED

CJ fill in t he gaps with usecl to or the Past Simple of the verb in brack ets.

 
Use used to where possible.

 

 

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