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CEDI
SEMANA 4: Do it before you´re 30!: Extreme sports and activities.
Lengua Extranjera - Lectura Date: Group 04: March 10
Group 15: March 11
Participants: Diana Carolina Diaz Moreno

VOCABULARY:
 Cave diving: buceo en Cueva
 Snowboarding: snowboard
 Skating: patinaje
 Parasailing: paravelismo
 Windsurfing: windsurf
 Skydiving: paracaidismo
 Whitewater rafting: Rafting en aguas bravas
 Bungee jumping: Puenting

1. Translate into Spanish the given vocabulary.

2. Take the expressions from the vocabulary and according with the pictures of the document
“EXTREME SPORTS”, write in front of each number the correct activity:
1. snowboard
2. Whitewater rafting
3. Cave diving
4. Bungee jumping
5. Windsurfing
6. parasailing
7. skydiving
8. skating

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3. According with the text “Have you ever seen anything like this?”, choose the correct answer:
3.1 The event that inspired the birth of the BASE jumping was:
a. The Kuala Lumpur Tower International Jump
b. The parachute from the top of the El Capitan rock formation
c. The jump of the Petronas Twin Towers
d. The jump of the Christ the Redeemer

3.2 If you want to try the highest jump, you have to go to:
a. The Kuala Lumpur Tower, Malaysia
b. The Eiffel Tower, Paris
c. Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
d. The Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia

3.3 BASE jumpers are also:

a. Criminals
b. Crazy men
c. Actors
d. Jump teachers

4. In Colombia, is there any place where people can go to practice BASE jumping? Look for some
information and write about it.

On the rock, El Peñon Guatape, Antioquia, you can practice BASE jumping, and Felipe
Acosta was one of many jumpers who won the first title after participating in a
competition, BASE jumping has gone from being a marginal sport to a phenomenon
throughout rule unlike skydiving, BASE jumpers do not use any type of plane, but instead
choose to jump from the top of a fixed structure. Another place that we could say is
Angel Falls is a great place to practice sports, which is completely legal in all of Venezuela.

www.unicesar.edu.co
Balneario Hurtado Vía a Patillal. PBX (57) (5) 5841000 EXT. 1040
Línea de atención al ciudadano 01 8000 400380
Valledupar Cesar Colombia

CO-SC-CER518726