Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

9 Your turn: A talk about Australia Give a three-minute talk about what interests you the most about Australia. Make notes first. Or: You were in Australia and had an adventure. Give a three-minute talk about it. 1 Can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions, plans and actions. (B1) Writing: An e-mail about your holiday On your last holiday you have seen and done a lot of interesting things. After the holiday you write an e-mail to a friend in which you tell him/her about your experiences. In your e-mail you should: • describe the place where you spent your holiday (country, location, accommodation, …) • explain to your friend what you did (activities, food, shopping, …) • describe your plans for your next holidays Write around 200 words . 2 Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalised format, which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. (B1) Reading: Surviving the outback Read the text about surviving the outback, then choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for questions 1–4. Put a cross ( ✘ ) in the correct box. The first one (0) has been done for you. 3 “Mate, if you make a mistake out here, you’re dead,” I am warned by a cowboy called Grinner at the Burke and Wills roadhouse on the Savannah Way in the north of Queensland. “e heat will suck the life out of you faster than you can suck beer out of a tinnie.” is warning is meant seriously. e Savannah Way is Australia’s most extreme driving adventure, but it can also be one of the most dangerous. At 2,500 miles, it is one of the longest routes in Australia, connecting Cairns in Queensland with Broome in Western Australia on the other side of the continent. e Burke and Wills roadhouse is a good place to talk about the dangers of the outback where temperatures reach 40 °C. It is named aer two explorers who died crossing Australia in 1861. “It is no dierent today,” said police o²cer Anne Bryant. “A breakdown or an accident could all cost you your life. It’s not just visitors, it’s people who live here, too. Actually they’re oen the ones that get into trouble because they think it’ll never happen to them.” 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Most of the route is well used and has roadhouses. Drive even ten miles o the main road, however, and travellers risk disappearing in the huge outback. is is what happened to Caroline Grossmueller and Karl Goeschka, two Austrians. ey drove into the outback and became trapped when the wheels of their camper van sank into the sand near Lake Eyre. “It seems that both tried to walk to William Creek, over 30 miles away,” I was told. “en he returned and she kept going.” Days later Grossmueller was found dead halfway to William Creek. e word HELP was written in the red earth next to her. Goeschka was discovered alive with the van. About 40 lives are lost each year in the outback. “e most important thing if you have a breakdown is to stay with your car. Walking o could kill you,” said Ben Pascoe, an Aboriginal who helps the police ¡nd lost drivers in the outback. Knowing how to spend a few nights under the stars could mean the dierence between life and death. e ¡rst thing to do is light a ¡re as a signal, being careful 128 Australia Check-out Now you can • Talk about Australia (Aboriginals, settlers, nature, animals). • Take better notes while you listen for gist and details. • Discuss discrimination. • Recognise when to use let, make and have . • Add information with relative clauses. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv