Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Speaking: Sports a) Individual long turn: Extreme sports 4 Please, • reflect about terms like extreme sport, free sport, action sport, and adventure sport – all of which basically mean the same type of sport – and point out what connotations they carry • describe, compare and contrast the extreme sport activities shown in the pictures • state your personal opinion about extreme sports and give reasons for it • comment on the dictum ascribed to Ernest Hemingway There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games b)  Paired activity: Skiing – Austria’s national sport The board of your U.S. partner school has invited you to give a presentation on skiing in Austria. The many aspects of the topic make you feel spoilt for choice. Therefore, together with your partner, consider and discuss the following issues related to the topic, and finally agree on three of them as the key points of your presentation. • the history of Alpine skiing • Austrian skiing legends • Swiss-Austrian Alpine rivalry • U.S. skiers coming on strong • Austria’s ski industry • popular ski areas in Austria 185 Make Your Way to the Oral Matura: Speaking M Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv