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.

  1. bite (line 8)-bit
  2. shake (line8)-shark
  3. hold (line 9)-held
  4. take (line 10)-took
  5. think (line 15)-thought
  6. see (line 19)-saw
  7. come (line 19)-came
  8. win (line 22)-won

Zad. 6

Match the highlighted words in the text with the definitions.

  1. behaving in a funny way
  2. amazing; unbelievable
  3. companies that give money to sports people
  4. shout in a very high, loud voice
  5. the best in the world at a particular sport
  6. somebody who gets paid to surf
  7. at the end of a period of time
  8. 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.

  1. what / weather / like / 31 October 2003?
  2. what / you / doing / when / shark / attack?
  3. what / your friends / do?
  4. how important / surfing / in your life / before shark attack?
  5. 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?