Adventure

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Aims1. 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

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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

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Key Words

• ancient buildings drevne gradjevine
• a scientific expedition naucna 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 pešacenje
• a round-the-world trip put oko sveta

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Add these words to the Key Wordsancient
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

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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

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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...

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The Race to the Pole

1. shocked and sad devastated (adj.)
2. angrily and unhappily bitterly (adv.)
3. a journey organised for a special purpose
   expedition (noun)
4. difficult and dangerous desperate (adj.)
5. a place where things are stored depot (noun)
6. in a good mood cheerful (adj.)
7. something you want to achieve ambition (noun)
8. courage and strength spirit (noun)
9. extraordinary remarkable (adj.)
10. frozen fingers and toes frostbite (noun)

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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.

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• 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.

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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

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• 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

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• 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 cant see very well
• go back home and get a torch and rope to explore
  the cave properly

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• 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

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• 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!