<h1><strong>Write or record the answer for Exercise A in here.</strong></h1>

<h1><strong>Write or record the answer for Exercise B in here.</strong></h1>

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07     NATURE
   WATCH
A Watch the video. Write what you hear about the extreme weather each person
  experienced and what its results were.
  ________________________________________________________________________
  ________________________________________________________________________
  ________________________________________________________________________
  ________________________________________________________________________
  ________________________________________________________________________

B Watch the video again. Why were each of the following things mentioned?
  Barcelona _______________________________________________________________
  circling in the sky _________________________________________________________
  holding hands ____________________________________________________________
  thunder and lightning ______________________________________________________
  boilers __________________________________________________________________
  two weeks ______________________________________________________________
  48 hours ________________________________________________________________
  car engines ______________________________________________________________

C Compare your ideas with a partner.

D Look at the video script. What are the missing words?

E Watch again and check your answers.


   PRACTISE PRONUNCIATION
A Practise the conversation in pairs.

B Which words or phrases are difficult for you? Tell a partner.

C Watch again and listen to the words / phrases that are difficult to say.
  Ask your teacher to stop the video.
  Repeat the word(s) / phrases.

D In pairs, practise reading the dialogue again.


   KARAOKE
   Watch the karaoke version and look at the video script. Act out the karaoke
   lines in italics.




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       VIDEO SCRIPT
Julia       So, have you ever experienced any extreme weather?
Alexander   Back home, not really. We’re very lucky with that usually, but a few years ago I was flying
            from Barcelona to London, where I was studying, and it was so incredibly windy
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              ____________________________________________ .
Julia       Seriously? Because of the wind? So what happened?
Alexander   Oh, it was terrifying. Really, really scary. The pilot was trying to land, but couldn’t and the
            whole plane was shaking like this, like the plane was going to
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              ____________________________________________ . We all thought we were going to
            die. And we were only able to land 3___________________________________________ .
Julia       So until then you were just circling in the sky, like this?
Alexander   Yes. It was horrible. I was 4____________________________________________ ! I mean,
            thinking about it today, it’s funny, but at the time ...
Julia       I bet! So how were the other passengers reacting? Were they screaming?
Alexander   Yes! You could hear people 5____________________________________________ and
            you could see them holding hands.
Julia       Woah!
Alexander   And then, after we’d landed, it was really, really windy
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              ____________________________________________ .
Julia       Was it raining as well?
Alexander   No, no. No rain, no thunder, no lightning. Just very, very windy!
Julia       You’ve scared me away from flying, you know!
Alexander   Sorry.
Julia       Anyway, that reminds me of what happened in my hometown last winter.
Alexander   Really? What happened?
Julia       We just had a really bad winter. It 7____________________________________________ ,
            more or less, at night and lots of people lost all their heating because their boilers broke
            down and the same thing happened with electricity. Some people were living for maybe
            two weeks in their homes without anything!
Alexander   I can’t imagine this! I would die. Really!
Julia       We had this freezing weather for maybe two weeks, then
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              ____________________________________________ , but then we got snow. 48 hours
            of non-stop snow. We had problems with transport and some of the schools had to be
            closed.
Alexander   How much snow was there?
Julia       In my town, maybe 30 or 40 centimetres, but enough to stop the buses in the city. It was
            worse in the north. I saw a man on TV who
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              ____________________________________________ from his front door to get out of
            the house in some village near the mountains.
Alexander   This is one problem we really don’t have in my city!
Julia       And I had to go to work, because my office was open all the time, but I just had this big
            problem with my car because I couldn’t fire the engine. I don’t know the word. How to
            make the car start working. Anyway, I couldn’t start my car so every morning my husband
            had to start my car from his car’s engine and we were always late, but at least my
            daughter had a great time playing in the snow!
Alexander   You must need very special clothes for this kind of weather.
Julia       Yes, but we could have worn anything and
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               ____________________________________________ . You couldn’t be out in the fresh
            air for longer than 30 minutes because you would be frozen and your feet start to hurt.


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07     NATURE
   WATCH
A Watch the video. Write what you hear about the extreme weather each person
  experienced and what its results were.
  ________________________________________________________________________