“Extreme sports are becoming more and more popular”.

What is your attitude to

these t ypes of sports?”

TASK1
Look at the pictures and the questions below. You have to answer the questions. They CAN help
you to generate ideas.

 What extreme sports do you know? What are they?

 Are you interested in any of them? Do you practice any extreme sport? Why? Why not?
 Why are they becoming more and more popular and people are getting interested in them more
than in usual sports?
 Why do people take reasonable risks even if they know about the consequences of doing them?
 Which of these types of sports can be succesfully developed or is being developed in your
country?

II. Supose you practice a xtreme sport; record a podcast; change the example with your
information and the xtreme sport you choose.

My name is David Díaz. I am from Colombia and live in Soacha in León XIII. I am 16 years old. I live
with my family in a small house. They are my mom, my dad, my sister and my grandmother. I study in
the school Cedid San Pablo. I like xtreme sports and music. I don´t like news on tv. I practice rock
climbing. I go to Suesca every weekend. It is a small town near Bogotá. It has 17.583 inhabitants.
There are many shops, restaurants, a beautifil church and many farms. I practice in Rocas de Suesca. I
need a helmet, climbing ropes, climbing shoes, and harnesses. I practice four or six hours on Saturday
and Sunday.

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