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01.09.2022 14:16 •  Английский язык

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Reading
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READING Read the text quickly. Who is Chris
Hadfield? Why does he mention each of
these places?
1 Moscow
2 Barbados
3 Tintage
4 Portugal
5 The Caribbean
In True/False activities, remember
First read the text quickly to get a general understanding
Then read the sentences that you need to prove true or false
Find the parts of the text where you think the information
comes and read them again in more detail
EXAM SUCCESS page 144
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MY LIFE IN TRAVEL: CHRIS HADFIELD
Astronaut Chris What do you think travel teaches us?
included some of my best and worst
Hadfield has
That the most interesting thing is
experiences But I think the worst was
walked in space
people. The way we all have the same a moment when I was at a hostel in
and travelled 25 basic problems in our years on Earth.
50 Spain I hadn't had enough money to
in a Russian
but the many different ways we resolve
dnnk bottled water and the water !
rocket. But what
those problems It's fascinating When
drank made me really ill. It was awful!
about his travel you're in space, you travel around the Favourite city?
experiences back whole world every 90 minutes, so you Moscow It's a very frendly city
down here on 30 see the similanties between people and when you speak Russian which I
Earth?
places It's a very unifying thing
55 do I had spent 20 years studying
Ideal travelling companion?
the language so I could fly a Russian
First holiday memory?
Someone who has a sense of
rockel, command the Space Station,
Scuba diving in Barbados) My father
adventure, who has the same daily
and become NASA's director in Russia
was an airline pilot so there was the
routine as I do, who knows things I
Moscows home to 11 million people
opportunity for free tickets. We did one
35 don't, who has their own ideas but who 60 and is a thousand years old. It has
tremendous history to it. I love the
very rapid family holiday from Toronto
is happy to listen to mine, and who is
nature and their culture It's not the
patient and tolerant of things being
5 to Barbados In Bridgetown, there was
easiest or quietest city, but it's my
different
an introductory scuba diving class I was
favounte
only 11, but it was before the rules were Greatest travel luxury?
Where next?
so sunct I still scuba dive now because A really big bed I stayed at a hotel
of that first experience
40 once which had the most amazing bed 65 The Caribbean, Las Vegas,
California, but a true holiday
and I thought, 'Why don't I have one
Favourite place in the British Isles?
of these? So I found the materials and for me is my home in Canada
10 Tintagelin Comwall. I set off for a trip
made my own!
I travel a lot so having a
along the whole south-west coast of
peaceful place to relax is
Worst travel experience?
England. It was beautiful and wild. It has
70 really important for me
ancient Viking and prehistonc sites, all When I was a teenager I was travelling
in one beautiful place
45 across Europe without much luggage,
Best holiday?
or money. It took six months, so it
15 (Portugal My wife and I were going down
the coast and east into the country,
driving through the hills. We saw
everything from the coast of the Algarve
to the capital, Lisbon. It was a really
20 unplanned adventure. That's the type
of holiday that we like. There was a real
sense of discovery​