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I can understand a text about an explorer. Reading 7.5

Antarctic Adventure

On 1 December 2014,16-year-old Lewis Clarke got on a
plane. Nineteen hours later he arrived in Antarctica. Lewis
didn’t go there with his parents. He went there with an
explorer, Carl Alvey. Lewis was on a Polar expedition – he
wanted to be the youngest person to go to the South Pole!
The journey was difficult and dangerous. Lewis travelled 700
miles and skied for eight hours every day. His backpack was
heavy – inside there was a tent, clothes, food, a torch and
a camera. He also had his schoolwork!
After 48 days, Lewis arrived at the South Pole. He was happy,
and he phoned his parents. Then he had his favourite meal –
spaghetti bolognese!

Lewis was the youngest person to go to the South Pole, but it
wasn't his first world record. When he was twelve, he swam
the English Channel with five other schoolchildren. Is Lewis
cool – or just crazy?

1 Look at the photo and the title. Where are the 5 Read the sentences and the clues. Complete
people? What are they doing? the sentences with a word in Exercise 4.
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1 The expedition to Antarctica was six months
2 3.35 Read and listen to the text. Find six
long. (noun)
things that Lewis took in his backpack.
2 Polar bears are
they are hungry! (adjective)
3 Exam Spot Read the text again and complete
3 Christopher Columbus was a famous
mous
the sentences.
. (noun)
1 Lewis was the youngest person to go to South
Mark, this is a
4 ‘Wow! Five metres in long jump! Mark, this is a
Pole.
school .’ (noun)oun)
2 He went to Antarctica with . 5 My schoolbag is
3 He skied for every day. I’ve got my P.E. kit. (adjective)
(adjective)
a tent, clothes, food, a torch, a camera and schoolwork.
4 The journey took days.
ions in your not
ebo
5 At the South Pole, Lewis phoned his parents 6 Answer the questions in your notebook. Then
and ate tell your partner about your journey.
rtner about yo
6 He swam the English Channel when he was It took … hours! HDU
you did a journey la
Imagine you did a journey last summer. Was it:
twelve years old. a long or short?

r short?
b easy or difficult?
4 Find these words in the text. Which of them are b easy or difficult?
adjectives? Which of them are nouns? c teresting or bo
c interesting or boring?
Last summer we went to … by … .
avy
dangerous expedition explorer heavy L a st summer
e journe
record The journey was … and very …
Noun Adjective

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