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READING 2 Read and write. Read the text again. Write T for True and F for False.

1 Listen and read. TR: 1.8 1. Danny and Bethany both do water sports.

Cool Adventurers 2. Danny’s YouTube videos have been watched over a hundred million times.

3. Bethany was back in the water just one year after the shark attacked her.
Danny MacAskill and Bethany Hamilton are two
incredibly brave athletes who love being outdoors. Both 4. Danny and Bethany are both National Geographic Adventurers of the Year.
have known success and failure in their lives.
5. They have both known how to do their sport since they were kids.
Danny MacAskill is a skillful cyclist who flips off
buildings and rides trains on his bicycle. He has often 3 Complete the chart. Write the information. Compare your answers
fallen out of trees and crashed since he began extreme with a partner.
cycling. He’s been very lucky—serious accidents often
happen to athletes, but he has only broken a few bones

and twelve helmets. Born in 1985 in Scotland, he loved Danny MacAskill Bethany Hamilton
cycling as a kid, but he never expected to be famous. When they were born
Then in 2009, a video of him appeared on YouTube.
The video went viral. In 2012, he became a National Where they were born
Geographic “Adventurer of the Year.” Since then, he
Danny MacAskill has made several more YouTube videos. His videos Sport they participate in
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Why they are famous
Super cool surfer Bethany Hamilton was born in Hawaii in 1990. She was
already an extremely skillful surfer at the age of eight. But in 2003, when

she was just thirteen years old, a shark attacked her, and she lost her
left arm. Just one month after her injury, she was back in the water. 4 Work with a partner.
Since then, she has learned to surf with one arm. She needs more Compare the two athletes in the More people are killed by soda
strength in her legs than other surfers because she has only text. Decide which person is braver, machines than by sharks each year.
one arm, but she has won competitions. She has written a which is cooler, and which is luckier.
book about her accident. The book became a movie
in 2011. She got married in 2013 and had her Explain why you think this. Does your
second child, a boy, in 2018. partner agree? Why or why not?

Risk But Bethany started surfing
low high one month after her accident.
I think Danny is braver because he That’s incredibly brave!
performs really dangerous tricks.
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