Unit 5
Unit 5
Unit 5
1 Listen and complete the sentences. 6 What happened to Ben while he was
working in Peru?
How long have they had a photography club
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at the school?
7 How many books has Ben written?
The e had a photograph club at school
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for five years.
1 Why did they have to change the room?
From Taransay to the South Pole
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Ben Fogle is a famous TV presenter in the UK,
2 What does Miss Dean teach?
but he has done many exciting and interesting
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things in his life. He became famous in the year
3 What did Jack Parker take a photo of? 2000 when he was in a reality TV show called
___________________________________ Castaway. He was part of a group of people
4 What did they use this photograph for? who lived alone on a remote Scottish island
___________________________________ called Taransay for a year. There were thirty-
5 Who will give some advice later on in the six people and they had to build their own
houses and grow their own food. Since then he
evening?
has presented a lot of TV programmes about
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nature and animals including Animal Park, Wild
6 When will there be organized trips? in Africa, and Extreme Dreams. These
___________________________________ programmes have taken him all over the world.
7 When will there be a competition? He has also made documentaries about the
___________________________________ British explorer Captain Scott, Prince William
and crocodiles in Botswana.
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Ben loves exploring and he has done some
2 Read the text and answer the questions. very difficult and dangerous expeditions. In
2005/6 he rowed across the Atlantic with
Why did Ben Fogle become famous in
Olympic rowing champion James Cracknell.
2000? They were in a small boat and they had many
He took part in a reality programme. accidents during the journey. Then in 2009 he
1 What did the people have to do on the island skied across Antarctica in a race to the South
of Taransay? Pole. One of the people in his team was his old
___________________________________ rowing partner James Cracknell. This journey
2 What kind of TV programmes has Ben ook 18 da . The didn in. The No egian
team beat them but it was a great achievement
presented?
o com le e he jo ne . Ben nea l didn go
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on this last trip. While he was working in Peru
3 Which two people has Ben made he became very ill and nearly died. But he
documentaries about? recovered and immediately started training for
___________________________________ the Antarctic race. He has written five books
4 Which ocean did Ben row across with about his adventures and his life and he writes
a regular column for a British newspaper. The
James Cracknell?
only question remains. What will Ben do next?
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5 How long did it take for Ben to ski to the _____ 14
South Pole?
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Do a b u n g e e jump 1 Fly in a b _ _ l _ _ _
4 Climb a m _ u _ _ _ _ n 5 Sleep in a t _ _ t
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