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You can’tuse your cell phone until the plane_!8 land 4 Many people have problems sleeping if they Sink coffeeafter midday. drink 5 Lwant to spend. year traveling when L ve finish ini college. agillews VOCABULARY Write words for the definitions. 1 22 thedoor outside where you wait to board your flight 2 bane cm _ the place where you pick up your luggage after you've arrived 3 aisle _ the passage between the rows of seats inside aplane 4 eabuleee a series of sudden and violent changes in wind dicection that affects flights 5 jet__129__ the feeling of being tired and confused after a long flight b Gieidthe correet word. 1 Gieaand Thaven' sen each ether much te D> 2 Our hotel hasa great view! We can@@p) ever see the Eiffel Tower! 3 The been working hardly lately. 4 How much cases re you going to take? 5 loveall pasta, bu specially lasagna. € Complete with the verb in the past tense 1 The wind blew so hard tharewo trees fell down, 2 The taxidropped me ff outside the cerminal. 3. Itpoured rain this afternoon, andi got soaked -walking to the bus top. 4 She got___ on the bus burthere was nowhere 0 sit 5. Wetook _ advantage of the good weather and spent the day atthe beach. 4 Gireld)the word thavis different. 1 breeze wind hurricane 2D) boing how og 3 Gp mi smog ‘cold freezing QED iy S hail ehunder Lightning Gee € Complete with one word. 1 Diana alwaystakes Out insurance even for short trips. 2 The most dangerous moment during alight is when theplane istaking of _ or landing 3 Tvedecided to tke UP running, Ineed to lose some weight. 4 Whodoyoutake after_mostin your family? 5 The final game will ake place in Vancouver next Saturday.PRONUNCIATION a Gireld)the word witha different sound 12K pouting soem QB warm i & pleasant 3B ED vor cadet 4 Joggage flood thunder Seg) rein GD ately —adetayed iderline the main stressed syllable. 1 Bally = 3 By 4@osen|ger icane CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT? a. Read the article once. [s wingsuit flying a popular hobby? ‘Ne Thotesr dono poesoric anda hard of opi uta ove Bd b_ Read the article again and complete it with phrases A-P, ‘There is one sentence you do not need. A But the sport truly took offin 1997 B. Some wingsuit flyers attach cameras to their helmets Forme, the crazy thing D With practice, some wingsuiters can stay than three minutes E The acronym stands for the porential jump off points F But wingsuiters are not easily deterred n't continuing to do it in the air for more © Choose five words or phrases from the text. Check their meaning and pronunciation and try to learn them, a CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS MOVIE? (245)) Watch or listen to a short movie on Mr. G and complete the sentences with one or two words 1 Mr,G isthe meteorologist for Channel Tl CBS radio. 2 InNYC ithasbeen snowing 3=tingand raining, 3. He says thar people don’t want ro hear about another le snowstorm nks New Yorkers area t94gh group. 5. People talk about the weather when they want co "et people or when they waneto complain 6 When Mr. G started, there were only 72 _hour forecasts. 7 Today everyone sees a 74°Y forecast. 8 In the distant future there will be 50 day forecasts. 9 Today, apart from on TY, people get weather forecasts on their computerandon_2pe5., 10. However, 32 %4of Americans ssillwatch the news on TV and gettheir weather forecast from Mr. G. They believe they can fly ‘ome people just won't be satisfied until they can fly. Tis primal urge has given rise to wingsut lies, thrill seckers cho leap off clifs or out of airplanes wearing ‘winged jumpsuits._D___ and hit speeds of over 100 miles an hour, achieving what they say is the closest thing hat humans have ever experienced, “lesa weied,rsky thing to do,” said Tanya Weiss, 35,2 professional wingsuit pilot. "but the dream of light is ‘ancient, and some of us fx like it's something we were bora with” Imaddition to the dozen or so professionals like Ms. Weiss, ‘who spend their workdays filming ads and doing movie stunts, there are only a handiul of people who have ever actually tried it. Most ae elite skydivers, also known as BASE jumpers.?_E ___~ Buildings; Antennas, Spans (bridges), and Barth (eg. hills and clifs. There have been many attempts at wingsuit flying throughout history, dating from the German engineer ‘Otto Lilienthal, who in the late 1800s designed winged sliders that allowed him to fly up to 1,000 feet without anengine, A, when the French skydiver Patrick {de Gayardon successfully jumped froma plane wearing nothing but a modified jumpsu Wingsuit flying sa spectator sport derives much of its thei from people putting their lives at ris, and at extremely high speeds. Both Otto Li ded trying to achieve fight with winged outfit, as did Eric Stephenson, Tanya Weiss’s mentor and fiance +_F Despite: she planned 10 marry, Ms. Weiss ho recently ed the successful effort to set a world record forthe largest wingsuitskydive formation with 99 others in California, stil pursues het 1 death ofthe m: “L thought about quitting” she said. “But we'e pushing the boundaries of what humans can do.° ©, The crazy thing would be to walk away from this thing th has brought me together with some of the most incredible people in the work.” ‘Adapted om The New York Tes Online Practice ff 4g