lunes, 26 de octubre de 2015

Listening test: Danger

Listen to Sybil talking about a dangerous situation she once went through and complete the gaps in the sentences below with up to two words. 0 is an example.


0 Example:
Sybil was in Costa Rica when she went through a dangerous situation.

1 She didn’t check how …………………………. was running before getting into the ocean.

2 As well as a swimmer and a boarder Sybil is a ………………………….  .

3 When she got into the water, Sybil just …………………………. and the water quickly carried her out.

4 Sybil couldn't surf because of the ………………………….    .

5 Traditionally it is advised to move ………………………….  if you want to get out of a situation like this.

6 Because the sea was so rough, Sybil ended up drinking a lot of ………………….    .



Well Katie, here’s one. It really was, a very dangerous situation. I was in  Costa Rica and I was at the beach...and I had not checked before, to find out...how the current was running in the ocean that day. I am a very experienced swimmer, and er...a boarder and body surfer and I should have known better, Katie, but I...I think I got a little ahead of myself...and I got my foot in the water, and it was, absolutely lovely...and I saw that there were big waves out a little bit farther...but, I sort of just lay down in the water, and very very quickly, the water carried me out, into the current. And I found that I could not easily get back, into shore. And er, the waves were very...irregular, which means that I couldn’t body surf on them. So that meant, that I had to decide which way, I was going to try to make it back to shore. And the traditional wisdom, is to go diagonal ...out of the current. And er, I did that, a little bit, but it was a big...fight, and the waves were so big and so strong, and so...irregular, that I couldn’t predict them and it was very difficult to not...drink a lot of salt water which is really bad to do... So it took me a very long time to get out of it, I’m very lucky that I was er...a good swimmer and...I managed to get out if it, but that was a dangerous situation.

KEY:
0 Costa Rica
1 the current
2 body surfer
3 lay down
4 irregular waves
5 diagonally
6 salt water