[00:02.94]Unit 8 Adventure Lesson 2 Extreme Sports

[00:10.49]Exercise 3

[00:11.98]Listen and check you answers for Exercise 2

[00:17.13]..and now we're going to take a look

[00:19.13]at extreme sports.

[00:20.83]What exactly are they? How dangerous are they?

[00:24.54]What makes people risk their lives to do them?

[00:27.55]Michelle is going to tell us all about them.

[00:30.08]Speed,excitement, danger.

[00:32.14]You can find all these

[00:33.66]in the various extreme sports

[00:35.55]that have become popular

[00:37.21]in the last ten years or so.

[00:39.47]Take bungee jumping.You jump off a bridge,

[00:42.82]like this one I'm standing on now,

[00:45.04]and you fall and fall,and then,

[00:47.58]just before you hit the ground or water,

[00:49.81]a rope pulls you back.

[00:52.09]Other extreme sports appear just as crazy.

[00:54.65]Look at this.

[00:55.70]In sky surfing you jump out of an aeroplane

[00:58.86]and use a board to 'surf' the air,

[01:01.73]doing gymnastics in mid-air!

[01:04.03]Amazxing.And extreme sports on land

[01:06.60]can be just as dangerous.

[01:08.81]Winter sports have always

[01:10.47]had an element of danger.

[01:12.44]The new winter sports are even more dangerous.

[01:15.59]For example snowboarding,

[01:17.36]which has all the excitement of surfing

[01:19.45]but on snow,is more dangerous even than skiing

[01:23.47]Probably the most dangerous of all the new

[01:25.77]winter sports is snowrafting.

[01:28.59]You sit in a rubber boat and sail down

[01:30.77]a mountain at great speed

[01:33.31]and you can't control the boat!

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