[Friends Global] Giải tiếng anh 10 unit 2: Adventure - 2F. Reading

1. Work in pairs. Look at the photos. What do you think the text is about? Choose from headlines a, b and c.

a Tourist's fishing trip disaster

b How to protect sea cultures

c Fish recues sailors

Answer:

a

2. Read the first paragraph of the text. Did you choose correctly in exercise 1? How do you know?

Answer:

The first paragraph introduces about Dan and Kate's nightmare during a fishing trip.

3. Read the Reading Strategy. Then read the text, focusing on each gap and thinking about what might happen next.

4. Match sentences A-F with gaps 1-5 in the text. There is one extra sentence. Do any of the sentences match your ideas from exercise 3?

Answer:

1 D        2 F        3 A

4 E        5 C

5. Read the text again. Are the sentences true or false? Write T or F.

Answer:

1 F        2 F        3 F

4 F        5 T

6. Read the Learn this! box and complete it with the adjectives below.

small      good      hungry      dirty

Answer:

1 good       2 dirty       3 hungry       4 small

7. VOCABULARY Match the extreme adjectives highlighted in the text with the simpler adjectives below.

Answer:

1 awful              4 tragic

2 brilliant          5 terrifying

3 huge              6 exhausted

8. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Act out an interview with Dan or Kate.

Answer:

1 What did the weather like that day?

   The weather was quite dull.

2 What were you doing?

   We were on a fishing trip and I was trying to pull a huge fish onto the boat.

3 What happend with the boat?

   The boat was sinking fast because water was coming into the cabin.

4 Why did you start swimming?

   Because we saw some cliffs and we thought we were near the land.

5 How did you feel?

   I was really frightened and exhausted.

6 How did you reach safety?

   We were helped by a farmer living on the land.