READING

People who don’t live

4.4 Gapped text
in traditional houses
I can understand the
main points in a simple
2.13
descriptive text on
a familiar topic.

1 SPEAKING Look at the photos and

discuss the questions.
1 What are the advantages of living in each
place?
2 What are the disadvantages?
3 Would you like to live there? Why/Why
not?
I suppose one advantage of living in the
trees is that you would have fantastic
views …
2 2.12 Which words in the box
describing landscape features can you
see in the photos? Use your dictionary if
necessary. Then listen and repeat.

a cave  a crater  an island  a rainforest 

rocks  ruins  stilts  a treehouse 
a turquoise ocean  a volcano 

3 Read the text and answer the questions.

1 Why do the Korowai Tribe build their
houses in trees?
2 Why do people in Coober Pedy prefer
living underground?
3 Why do people on Aogashima want to
live in a volcano?
4 Why do the Bajau people feel
uncomfortable on land?
5 Why have most people recently moved
from Petra to a nearby village?

EXAM FOCUS Gapped text

Read the text again. Complete gaps
1–5 with sentences A–F. There is one
extra sentence.
A Alternatively, you can take a helicopter
and it only takes two hours.
B This means that they have better access
to water, electricity and Wi-Fi.
C In fact, income from tourism is helping
to keep their traditions alive.
D It has to be strong because sometimes
a family of twelve people live there.

E However, if you look closer, you can 1 Living in trees
see chimneys on the surface of the dry
landscape. The Korowai Tribe of Papua New Guinea are strong and good at
F Also, they start hunting when they’re climbing. They have to be! They live in treehouses, sometimes forty-
just eight years old. five metres above the ground. The dense rainforest is hot and humid;
there are insects and dangerous animals. Treehouses protect the
5 tribe from these dangers on the ground. They use material from the
forest to build the houses. They cut off the top of a tree and build
the floor first. 1
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They use a ladder to get up and down. Imagine
the breathtaking views from one of these treehouses!
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 2 Living underground 5 Match ‘clues’ 1–3 with their function a–c in
In the desert of Southeast a text.
10 Australia, 500 miles away from 1 she, he, it, her, him, one, this, that, here,
the nearest city, is a mining there
town called Coober Pedy. On 2 But, However, Alternatively, Instead
the sandy surface, there isn’t 3 Also, In addition, For example, In fact
much to see. 2
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Almost all
a they introduce additional information
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b they introduce contrasting information

underground and work in the c they refer back to something in the text
opal mines. To escape from
scorching temperatures, 6 Underline examples of ‘clues’ in sentences
they have created an impressive underground world where you’ll fi A–F in Exercise 4. Do they ‘add’, ‘contrast’
20 nd everything from a bookstore to a church, and even a hotel. or ‘refer’?

7 2.14 Complete the phrases with the

3 Living in a volcano words in blue in the text. Then listen,
Aogashima is a Japanese check and repeat.
island in the Philippine 1 attract

Sea. Over 230 years ago, 2 breathtaking
a volcanic eruption killed half 3 historic

25 of its population. Now about
4 hot and

200 people live in the old 5 mining

volcanic crater. They try not 6 trading

to worry too much about
7 traffic

another eruption. They love
30 living on the island – there 8 Complete the questions with the words in
are no traffi
c jams or crowds of people. Fishing, hiking, camping and Exercise 7.
swimming are popular activities. Aogashima’s natural hot springs and 1 Are there any monuments in
lush vegetation attract a lot of visitors, but the island is not so easy your city?
to reach. You can take a fourteen-hour boat trip from Tokyo. 3
@@ 2 Is your city a busy centre?
3 Which parts of your country
4 Living on the sea a lot of visitors?
4 Where can you see breathtaking
35 The Bajau /ˈbɑːdʒaʊ/ people ?
of Borneo in Southeast Asia, 5 Does it ever get hot and in
also called sea gypsies, live your country?
on boats or houses on stilts in 6 Are there any towns in your
the turquoise PacificOcean. country?
40 When they go on land, they 7 Where in your city are the worst
feel ‘landsick’. Bajau children jams?
don't go to school on land. But
from an early age they learn to 9 SPEAKING Ask and answer the questions
swim and dive. 4
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The best in Exercise 8.
45 Bajau divers can dive 20 metres to the bottom of the ocean to search
for fish.Y oung Bajau children spend so much time in the ocean that WORD STORE 4E Collocations
their eyes develop excellent underwater vision.
10 2.15 Complete WORD STORE 4E with
the words in the box. Then listen, check
5 Living in caves and repeat. Write an example sentence for
each collocation.
The ancient city of Petra is a
popular tourist destination. It
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mountains of south-western
Jordan and was once a busy
trading centre. Then, its
residents abandoned the city
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only the Bedouin, a nomadic

tribe, lived in caves among
the spectacular historic ruins. However, the government has recently
decided to move them to a nearby village to protect Petra. But the
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60 Bedouins’ way of life has not changed much. @@
Some of them

work in Petra, selling souvenirs or transporting tourists on horses,

camels and donkeys around the historic monuments.
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