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What's one thing you've always wanted to try and one place you've always wanted to visit? start learning
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Software development. or computer programming. Natal city, in Brazil.
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What's stopped you from doing both of these things? start learning
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Knowledge or lack of knowledge and money or lack of money. the lack of money is the main impediment.
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observing rare and exotic animals in their natural habitat
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Travelling a historic route Route 66
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swimming with dolphins SWTD
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Who decided what the top fifty things are? start learning
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some 20,000 members of the public sending in their ideas
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Write down two adjectives you think someone will mention for each of the activities in photos A-F. start learning
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A- exotic, uggly B- beautiful, fantastic C- adventurous, D- crazy, scaring E- crazy, F- fascinating, amazing
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Which of your adjectives are used? Which activity is not in the DVD? start learning
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observing rare and exotic animals in their natural habitat
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Whether you're a hard-core traveller or an armchair tourist start learning
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Mark the sentences true (T) or false (F). The main thing people say they love about sledding is the scenery. start learning
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The presenter preferred driving the sled to sitting in it. start learning
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F This is much more exhilarating than just sitting in the sled actually having the dogs work for you and feeling like you're in control is definitely where it's at.
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Pilots used to strap themselves to the wings at airshows. start learning
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F when pilots would strap their poor girlfriends to the outside of their planes to entretain the crowds at air shows.
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Rebecca found it surprisingly easy to wave and look elegant. start learning
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F The wind is really, really strong and it's really hard to do the waving.
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The legendary Route 66 runs from Chicago to San Francisco. start learning
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F The famous route from Chicago to Los Angeles...
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One of the bungee jumpers likes the feeling of being stretched and bounced. start learning
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T Just to fly like that and just end up being stretched and bounced back up, great fun.
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People have always been fascinated by dolphins' plainfulness and intelligence. start learning
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T Their legendary curiosity and playfulness have enchanted us for generations.
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The speakers like dolphins because they are helpful to humans. start learning
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F They're so huge and so powerful and yet so playful
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Which activities in the programme do these sentences refer to? Complete the phrases in bold so that they mean the same as the words in brakets and you can really _ it in because the dogs are doing all the hard work. (absorb) start learning
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and you can really take it in because the dogs are doing all the hard work.
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and feeling like you're in or out of control is definitely _ it's at (the key experience) start learning
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and feeling like you're in or out of control is definitely where it's at (the key
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wanted nothing more than to be strapped to the outside of a plane and _ part in your very own wingwalking display (be involved in) start learning
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wanted nothing more than to be strapped to the outside of a plane and take part in your very own wingwalking display (be involved in)
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Once upon a time it was, the kind of the _ to do. (the fashionable experience) start learning
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Once upon a time it was, the kind of the thing to do. (the fashionable experience)
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The feeling you get when you jump off, fall off, dive off, or _, is just awesome. (anything like that) start learning
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The feeling you get when you jump off, fall of, dive off, or whatever, is just awesome. (anything like that)
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they're so huge and powerful and _ so playful and I'm really, really lucky to be here with them. (but) start learning
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they're so huge and powerful and yet so playful and I'm really, really lucky to be here with them. (but)
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Order the five activities in the programme from the one you'd most like to do to the one you'd least like to do. start learning
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Think about something you have tried that you have would recommend to someone else, for example a journey, an experience with animals / nature, a sport. start learning
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Make notes on questions 1-3.
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Acemoney, VocApp, dictionary flashcards
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How did you feel before / while / after you did it? start learning
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How did you feel before / while / after you did
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Why do you think it's worth trying? start learning
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Why do you think it's worth
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Listen to someone describing an activity, and answer questions 1 and 2 above. start learning
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skydiving, it was quite scary, epic, the suspense, I started feeling sick, fun, hilarious, the adrenaline rush.
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I'm (not) the kind of person who likes start learning
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The activity I'd like to recommend may seem start learning
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The activity I'd like to recommend may seem incredible
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It's one of the best / most challenging experiences I've ever had start learning
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It's one of the most challenging experiences I've ever had.
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The thing I'll remember most is the feeling of / the moment when start learning
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The thing I'll remember most is the cold air hitting my teeth
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I'd recommended this experience because it helps you understand something about fear / how wonderful X is start learning
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I'd recommended this experience because it helps you understand something about fear.
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It's an activity I'd like to recommend to all my friends. start learning
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It's an activity I'd like to recommend to all my friends because I know they'd absolutely love it.
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gradable and ungradable adjectives start learning
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it was quite scary, it was just epic, it was just absolutely freezing, it was like I was completely weightless, I know they'd absolutely love it
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What activity is she writing about? start learning
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observing rare and exotic animals in their natural habitat
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