This document summarizes the living conditions in some of the hottest, highest, and coldest places in the world. It describes Mali, West Africa as the hottest country, where people get up early and wear cotton clothes to avoid dehydration in temperatures over 50 degrees. La Paz, Bolivia is noted as the highest capital city in the world at over 4,000 meters above sea level, where low oxygen levels can cause issues. Finally, it discusses Yakutia, Siberia as the coldest place, where temperatures often drop below -50 degrees and ice falling from roofs in spring can be dangerous.
This document summarizes the living conditions in some of the hottest, highest, and coldest places in the world. It describes Mali, West Africa as the hottest country, where people get up early and wear cotton clothes to avoid dehydration in temperatures over 50 degrees. La Paz, Bolivia is noted as the highest capital city in the world at over 4,000 meters above sea level, where low oxygen levels can cause issues. Finally, it discusses Yakutia, Siberia as the coldest place, where temperatures often drop below -50 degrees and ice falling from roofs in spring can be dangerous.
This document summarizes the living conditions in some of the hottest, highest, and coldest places in the world. It describes Mali, West Africa as the hottest country, where people get up early and wear cotton clothes to avoid dehydration in temperatures over 50 degrees. La Paz, Bolivia is noted as the highest capital city in the world at over 4,000 meters above sea level, where low oxygen levels can cause issues. Finally, it discusses Yakutia, Siberia as the coldest place, where temperatures often drop below -50 degrees and ice falling from roofs in spring can be dangerous.
‘The driver is the most dangerous part of the car’
- Leo Campion, French humorist ‘To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive’ – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer
‘A coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco’
– Mark Twain, American writer
Сравнительная Превосходная
-er -est
1) Односложные и large larger (the) largest
некоторые thin thinner (the) thinnest двусложные near nearer (the) nearest early earlier (the) earliest
2) - More (более) Most (самый)
Двусложные и difficult more difficult (the) most difficult многосложные exciting more exciting (the) most exciting
3) Особые случаи: Good, Well Better (the) Best
Bad Worse (the) Worst Much, Many More (the) Most Little Less (the) Least Old Older, Elder (the) Oldest, eldest Far Farther/Further Farthest/Furthest
- Sometimes I feel that I have the worst
job in the world. - Ya… Right!
- Мне иногда кажется, что у меня худшая
работа в мире! - Да…точно!
Односложные прилагательные и наречия, а также двусложные прилагательные, оканчивающиеся на –
y, -er, -ow, -ble, образуют сравнительную степень путем прибавления суффикса –er и превосходную степень – путем прибавления суффикса –est: Large – larger – largest Если слово оканчивается на согласную с предшествующим кратким согласным звуком, то при образовании сравнительной и превосходной степеней сравнения согласная удваивается: Hot – hotter – hottest У слов, оканчивающихся на –у с предшествующей согласной, в сравнительной и превосходной степенях у переходит в i: Early – earlier – earliest Extreme Living Welcome to the coldest, highest, and hottest places in the world!
The hottest country in the world
How do people live in Mali, West Africa, where the temperature is often 50º? (degrees) John Baxter, a BBC journalist in Mali, says, ‘People get up very early and they don’t move very much in the afternoon. Surprisingly, they wear a lot of clothes (usually cotton) as this helps them not to get dehydrated. Houses are very hot and don’t have air conditioning – the best place to sleep is on the roof!’
The highest capital city in the world
La Paz in Bolivia is 4 090 meters above the sea level. It can be difficult to breathe because there isn’t much oxygen. Liz Tremlett, a travel agent who lives there, says, ‘When people arrive at El Alto airport we sometimes need to give them oxygen.’ It is also the worst place to be if you drink too much beer. The next day you feel terrible because you get more dehydrated. But La Paz is a very good place to play golf. At this altitude, when you hit a golf ball it goes further.
The coldest place in the world
Can you imagine living in a place which is four times colder than your freezer? This is Yakutia in Siberia, where in winter it is often -50º or lower. Valeria Usimenko, a housewife, says, ‘After a few minutes outside your nose fills with ice. It snows a lot and there’s always a lot of ice and snow on top of the houses. The most dangerous (опасное) time is the spring – when the ice falls it can kill people! The winter is very boring because we can’t go out much. A lot of babies are born here in autumn!’