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5 Dramatic events

Starting off
Wilderness
1 You receive an email telling you that you have won
an adventure activity competition. Which of these Husky Safari
three activities would you choose?
2 Compare and discuss your choice of activity with
other students.

3 Work in pairs. Discuss these quotations. What do
they mean? Do you agree with them?

t ‘Do one thing every day that scares you.’ (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
t ‘Distrust and caution are the parents of security.’
(Benjamin Franklin)
HYDROSPEEDING Quite simply, we love this and, judging

by the feedback, so do our clients.
You will be provided with all the necessary
equipment, including thermal clothing, and then
taken to meet the dogs. You will be taught how to
handle your team and the sled, and then you depart
into Pallas-Ounas National Park in Western Lapland,
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one of Europe’s few remaining wilderness areas.

Hydrospeeding in Morzine, Switzerland, is not Interested? Click here
for everyone but the more extreme will love
it. Equipped with a fl oat, helmet, fl ippers and
Listening | 1BSU
wetsuit, you will fl oat, plunge and scream your
way down the River Dranse! 1 You will hear three people talking about dramatic
Interested? Click here>> past experiences. Before you listen, match 1–10 with
a–j to make sentences which refer to frightening
experiences.

It seemed to go on … a nightmares about it.
Everything seemed to b in a fl ash.
be happening … c I’ll never forget.
It was as though time … d stood still.
It was all over … e as if it was yesterday.
Everything was … G much about it.
I remember it … g in slow motion.
It’s an experience … I happening at once.
I still have … J forever.
It’s all … K a bit of a blur now.
Ready to skydive? We offer tandem skydiving, I don’t remember …
parachuting and freefalling at York Skydiving Centre.
Come and experience the exhilaration of jumping 2 Now tell a partner about a dramatic experience that
happened to you or someone you know. Use some of
from an aeroplane at 4,000 metres at the closest
the sentences from Exercise 1 if possible.
full-time parachute centre to York.
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