Everyone can be extraordinary Reading and listening: Extraordinary lives a) Look at the pictures of four extraordinary people and guess which things they did in their lives. Match each person with two activities. Draw lines. Then write sentences in your exercise book. A B C D Mary Shelley Steve Irwin Jane Goodall Stephen Hawking I think Jane Goodall helped chimpanzees. b) Read the short biographies of four extraordinary people and guess what the missing words could be. Circle a), b) or c). Then listen and check. At the age of 18, Mary Shelley took part in a contest with some famous authors. Who could tell the 1 story? Mary couldn’t think of anything, but later that night she dreamt of a horror story. She wrote it down. It was Frankenstein, one of the most famous books in the 2 language. Mary was born in London in 1797. Her life was not very happy. She lost her mother soon after she was born, and her children died at a young age. 1. a) funniest b) scariest c) saddest 2. a) German b) Spanish c) English Steve Irwin became famous as The Crocodile Hunter. He hunted crocodiles which lived too close to 3 without killing them. At the age of six, he caught his first poisonous snake. He was very good at handling dangerous animals and made lots of TV shows. All his life, he fought to protect endangered animals. Also his death was extraordinary. He died at 44 when he was filming at Batt Reef in 4 and a stingray killed him. 3. a) zoos b) schools c) people’s homes 4. a) Australia b) America c) Africa jd39pt 2 1. helped chimpanzees 2. had to stay in hospital 3. was the star of a TV show 5. got very close to reptiles 6. wrote a famous horror book 4. wrote books about physics 7. worked in Africa for many years 8. lost her mother and her children 1.3 6s32az 16 2 Unit What a life! sixteen Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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