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3 Match the underlined words in the articles with the definitions. 1 started enjoying
Predicting content Look at pictures and titles to help you think about the topic of the text and predict some of the ideas and vocabulary in it. This will help you understand more when you start reading. Great students’ tip 1 Look at the photos and the titles of the articles. What do you think is the topic of the articles? Read the articles quickly to check. a Summer holiday fun b New ways to travel in Europe c Teenagers’ unusual travel experiences
2 a blog that contains mainly video 3 a pair of bags fitted to a bicycle and used for carrying things 4 produced for an important event to help you remember it
5 at risk, unprotected 6 uncontrolled, violent Critical thinkers
4 On a long trip by bike, are these factors an advantage (A), a disadvantage (D) or both (B)? 1 Effect of weather
05 Read the articles. Decide if each sentence talks about Ed (E), Radu (R) or both (B). 1 He cycled across Europe. E / R / B 2 He camped most of the time. E / R / B 3 He had a serious delay at one point in his trip. E / R / B 4 It was the first time someone had done this kind of trip. E / R / B 5 He slept one night in an unusual place. E / R / B 6 He posted his adventures on social media. E / R / B 7 He spent more than one year travelling. E / R / B 8 His trip involved finding hidden items. E / R / B
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A / D / B A / D / B A / D / B A / D / B A / D / B A / D / B
2 Risk of accident/injury 3 Freedom to go anywhere 4 Effect on environment
5 Cost
6 Freedom to stay anywhere
7 Risk of losing bike A / D / B 8 Transporting everything on the bike A / D / B
When Radu Clapa set off from Denmark on a 7,800 km bike tour, he was also going geocaching. Geocaching is an outdoor activity where people use an app and a GPS device to find boxes (called geocaches) in secret locations. He first got into geocaching in 2014 and he had always loved cycling, so he decided to connect both things and planned a tour across 16 European countries. He sold commemorative Geocoins for ten euros each and two companies helped to pay for his trip. His journey was going as he had expected until his bike broke after 6,800 km. Luckily, he found a bike shop where a mechanic fixed the problem and gave him a place to sleep. He carried camping equipment on his bike, but he stayed with other geocachers on his journey whenever he could. He posted his fun experiences on Facebook® as he travelled, such as one night when he had to sleep at a bus stop! Five months later he completed his incredible tour. Geocaching – a different way to travel!
ROUND THE WORLD ON ONE WHEEL!
When he was 19, Ed Pratt began his epic 33,000 km journey, setting off from the UK to ride across Europe, East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the US – on only one wheel! When Ed left school, he knew that he didn’t want to go to university. He had unicycled since he was 16, after discovering a bike in his friend’s garage. He had read that no one had unicycled around the world before and he wanted to be the first to do that.
Ed’s grandfather had designed two special panniers on the front and back of the unicycle and Ed carried his luggage in these – including a tent, a sleeping bag and a cooking stove. Along the way, Ed managed to raise £300,000 for the charity School in a Bag, which provides education equipment for poor and vulnerable children. Ed had planned for a two-year trip, but, in the end, it took him three years and four months. Only eight months into his journey, Ed spent six months in Kazakhstan after he was almost hit by a car on icy roads. During his trip, he made an amazing vlog where he described the physical and mental challenges of riding a unicycle and told stories about his trip. He said he had pushed his unicycle 50 miles on foot on a desert road and had had a dangerous wild dog outside his tent in Australia. Maybe his next adventure will be on two wheels!
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