Zad. 1
Describe the photos. What do you think happened to the surfer?
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Zad. 2
Read the first two paragraphs and check your answers.
Zad. 3
Read the text. Put the events in the correct order.
- The sharkeventuallyswam away.
- Ten weeks later she was surfing againin a competition.
- She started to swim back to the beach.?<nie wiem>
- She decided to go surfing with some friendsin Hawaii
- Her friends saw the blood and came to help her.
- While she was waiting for a wave, a shark attacked her.
Zad. 4
Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
1.It was raining on the morning Bethany went surfing.- F(The sky was clear, the sun was shining and it was a perfectday for surfing on the big waves near the island of Kauai.)
2.She was lying on her board when the shark attacked.- T
3.The shark attacked her again a few minutes later.F- (Bethany held onto her board and the shark eventually swam away – but it took her arm with it.)
4.Bethany screamed while the shark was biting her arm. – F (It happened so fast that Bethany didn’t even scream.)
5.Immediately after the attack, she was worried about her sponsors.T
6.Bethany didn’t surf again until a year later. F(Bethany started swimming back to the beach with one arm, they thought at first that she was joking.)
7.A lot of professional surfers still think Bethany can be a champion surfer.T
Zad. 5
Find the past simple form of the verbs in the text.
- bite (line 8)-bit
- shake (line8)-shark
- hold (line 9)-held
- take (line 10)-took
- think (line 15)-thought
- see (line 19)-saw
- come (line 19)-came
- win (line 22)-won
Zad. 6
Match the highlighted words in the text with the definitions.
- behaving in a funny way
- amazing; unbelievable
- companies that give money to sports people
- shout in a very high, loud voice
- the best in the world at a particular sport
- somebody who gets paid to surf
- at the end of a period of time
- very big
Zad. 7
Work in pairs. Prepare an interview with Bethany. Make notes.
Student A: You’re the interviewer. Prepare five questions using the prompts below.
Student B: You’re Bethany. Prepare your answers using the information in the text and your own words.
- what / weather / like / 31 October 2003?
- what / you / doing / when / shark / attack?
- what / your friends / do?
- how important / surfing / in your life / before shark attack?
- how important / surfing / in your life / now?
Zad. 8
Work in pairs. Act out your interview.
What was the weather like on 31 October 2003?