9 DVD EXTRA
PRE-INTERMEDIATE UNIT 9 3A Work in pairs and answer the questions.
1 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. 1 Where did Joanna Lumley live when she was a
little girl?
1 What’s the coldest place you’ve ever visited?
2 What were her storybooks full of?
What’s the hottest?
3 What four things does she show from her
2 Do you prefer snow or rain?
suitcase?
3 What’s your favourite type of weather?
4 What did she see a picture of in the penguin book?
2A Watch the DVD and number the photos in the order 5 How many sled dogs does her guide have?
you see them. 6 Where does she wait to see the Northern Lights?
7 How long has she been waiting to see the
B What does each photo show? Label the photos with Northern Lights?
the headings in the box. 8 How does she feel a er she sees them?
travelling to see the Northern Lights B Watch the DVD again to check.
a book from Joanna Lumley’s childhood
Joanna Lumley as a little girl 4A Match the adjectives from the DVD with the things
they are used to describe 1–6.
(not) average fairytale magical rippling
steamy tiny
1 mountains
2 Northern Lights
3 heat
4 curtain
5 penguin
6 taxi rank
B Watch the DVD again to check.
A
C Match the adjectives from Exercise 4A with their
meanings 1–6.
1 not real, as if in a dream, the way things happen
in children’s stories
2 very enjoyable, in a strange or special way
3 very small
4 moving in small waves
5 hot and humid
6 normal
5A EITHER choose a natural wonder you know OR
choose one of the natural wonders below and find
out as much as you can about it. Use questions 1–3
B
to help you.
• Fly Geyser
• Great Blue Hole
• Door to Hell
• Plitvicer Seen
1 Where is it?
2 What is it, exactly?
3 How is it formed?
B Work in groups. Ask and answer questions about
the natural wonder you chose.
A: What’s the Fly Geyser?
C B: It’s a man-made geyser in the Nevada Desert.
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