Tony Hawk is a renowned 34-year-old American skateboarder. [1] He has won 73 competitions and can perform tricks as well as teenagers despite his age. [2] Hawk is also a successful businessman, authoring books and designing video games. [3] He tours with a skateboarding and music show that is popular in the US and Canada.
Tony Hawk is a renowned 34-year-old American skateboarder. [1] He has won 73 competitions and can perform tricks as well as teenagers despite his age. [2] Hawk is also a successful businessman, authoring books and designing video games. [3] He tours with a skateboarding and music show that is popular in the US and Canada.
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Tony Hawk is a renowned 34-year-old American skateboarder. [1] He has won 73 competitions and can perform tricks as well as teenagers despite his age. [2] Hawk is also a successful businessman, authoring books and designing video games. [3] He tours with a skateboarding and music show that is popular in the US and Canada.
Tony Hawk is a renowned 34-year-old American skateboarder. [1] He has won 73 competitions and can perform tricks as well as teenagers despite his age. [2] Hawk is also a successful businessman, authoring books and designing video games. [3] He tours with a skateboarding and music show that is popular in the US and Canada.
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TONY HAWK
THE MAN AND THE CHAMPION
Tony Hawk is American. He is 34. He is married with
three children. He’s a businessman.
And he is a skateboarding champion of the world.
Tony has 73 prizes from skateboard competitions.
He is not a teenager, he is 34, but he can skateboard like a sixteen year old! He can ride his skateboard very fast and he can do tricks on it.
His four-year-old son, Spencer, can also ride a
skateboard!
But Tony isn’t only a fantastic skateboarder – he can
do other things too. Tony is a computer games designer and a writer. Many people buy his books. His last book HAWK – Occupation: skateboarder is a bestseller in the USA.
Tony also has a skateboarding and music show. Tony
and his team show it in the USA and in Canada and it is very popular. Tony can’t play any musical instruments and he can’t sing. He and other skateboarders perform tricks and his musicians play rock music.
1. Find the missing words:
_________________ tricks the _________________ book
_________________ tricks _________________ musical _________________ a skateboard _________________ _________________ _________________ music
2. Find the missing prepositions:
a champion ______ the world do tricks ______ a skateboard
prizes ______ competitions married ______ three children
3. Look through the text and find antonyms for the following words and word-combinations:
very bad - ____________________________
very slowly - ____________________________ single - ____________________________ his first book - ____________________________ watch tricks - ____________________________
