Adventure

6. Aims:1. to learn some new vocabulary used to talk about travel, exploration and extreme sports2. to learn how to deal with difficult words in a text Adventure

7. Key Words • ancient buildings • a scientific expedition • a polar region • a cruise • climbing • explore • a rainforest • a desert • another planet • a desert island • famous museums • cities around the world • a volcano • sailing • skiing • diving • canoeing • parachuting • a trek • a round-the-world trip

8. Key Words • ancient buildings = drevne gradjevine • a scientific expedition = naučna ekspedicija • a polar region = polarna oblast • a cruise = krstarenje • climbing = penjanje, planinarenje • explore = istraživati • a rainforest = tropska šuma • a desert = pustinja • a desert island = pusto ostrvo • famous museums = poznati muzeji • sailing = jedrenje • diving = ronjenje • canoeing = vožnja kanuom • parachuting = padobranstvo • a trek = pešačenje • a round-the-world trip = put oko sveta

9. Add these words to the Key Words:ancient buildings, a scientific expedition, a polar region, a cruise, climbing • Explore: a rainforest, a desert, another planet, a desert island • Visit: famous museums, cities around the world, a volcano • Go: sailing, skiing, diving, canoeing, parachuting • Go on: a safari, a trek, a round-the world trip

10. Answers: • Explore: a rainforest, a desert, another planet, a desert island, a polar region • Visit: famous museums, cities around the world, a volcano, ancient buildings • Go: sailing, skiing, diving, canoeing, parachuting, climbing • Go on: a safari, a trek, a round-the world trip, a scientific expedition, a cruise

11. Dealing with difficult words • Read the sentence the word is in and decide what kind of word it is. • Read the paragraph the word is in and try to work out the meaning from the context. Is the word similar to a Serbian word? e.g. volcano, expedition, rapid...

12. The Race to the Pole • shocked and sad = devastated (adj.) • angrily and unhappily = bitterly (adv.) • a journey organised for a special purpose = expedition (noun) • difficult and dangerous = desperate (adj.) • a place where things are stored = depot (noun) • in a good mood = cheerful (adj.) • something you want to achieve = ambition (noun) • courage and strength = spirit (noun) • extraordinary = remarkable (adj.) • frozen fingers and toes = frostbite (noun)

13. Read the sentences carefully and try to work out the meanings of the words in bold. 1. The most abundant element in the universe is hydrogen, which makes up about 3/4 of all matter. 2. The electrons that interact with each other are valence electrons, the ones in the outermost electron shell of an atom. 3. Lithium, at the top of Group 1, has the highest melting point in the group. The melting points then decrease as you go down the group. 4. Mercury is the only metal which is liquid at room temperature. 5. A substance that loses electrons becomes positively charged.

14. 6. In a chemical formula, the ratio of atoms in the compound is shown by numbers called subscripts. 7. Metallurgy is the science of extracting metals from their ores. 8. A neutral atom becomes an ion either by losing an electron (cation) or by gaining an electron (anion). 9. Car exhaust gases are highly toxic because of their carbon monoxide content. 10. When plants produce carbohydrates by photosynthesis, oxygen is released as a by-product.

15. Questionnaire - How Adventurous Are YOU? 1- What would be your ideal summer holiday? three weeks trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost tribe going on an organised cruise around the Mediterranean with your mum climbing the north face of Everest on your own and with no oxygen going camping on a Scottish island with a group of friends 2- What would you do if someone offered to take you bungee jumping off a very high bridge? go along and watch the other people be the first to jump off the bridge watch the other people and then try to jump yourself turn pale and say you suffer from vertigo

16. 3- Which of these hobbies would you most like to take up? stamp collecting bull-fighting snowrafting gardening 4- If you saw some tasty-looking red and white mushrooms in the woods in the autumn, what would you do? go home and make a big omelette for your family and yourself take one of them to the science teacher at school to find out what they are get a book out of the library and make sure they are safe to eat give one of the mushrooms to your dog to see if he/she eats it

17. 5- If you had the opportunity to travel around the States for four weeks how would you prefer to go? in a rented car with a group of your friends hitch-hiking and getting buses on your own travelling around by aeroplane with your family going on an organised coach trip with your grandmother 6- What would you do if you discovered a deep cave when out walking on your own? tell your friends about it when you got back home tell the local natural history society about the cave go into the cave as far as possible even though you can’t see very well go back home and get a torch and rope to explore the cave properly

18. 1- a - 3 points b - 0 points c - 5 points d - 1 point • 2- a - 0 points b - 5 points c - 3 points d - 0 points • 3- a - 0 points b - 5 points c - 3 points d - 0 points • 4- a - 0 points b - 3 points c - 3 points d - 0 points • 5- a - 2 points b - 5 points c - 1 point d - 0 points • 6- a - 0 points b - 0 points c - 3points d - 5 points

19. 25-28 points – you are very adventurous, but a bit crazy! • 17-24 points – you are an adventurous person • 10 -16 points – you are not very adventurous • under 9 points – you are not at all adventurous!