Units 5 6 Adventure sports in Queenstown

Before you watch

1 Australia is about
kilometers from
New Zealand.
2
s of people came to Queenstown
to look for gold.
3 Only
people lived in Queenstown
in 1990.
4 There have been jet boat trips near
Queenstown since
.
5 The Kawarau Bridge is
meters high.
6 The first bungee jump off Kawarau Bridge was
in
.
7 Over
people have done bungee
jumps off the Kawarau Bridge.
8 In the video, we see some people jump out of
a plane
meters over Queenstown.

Answer the questions.

1 Where is New Zealand?
2 What kind of activities do you think tourists
can do there?
3 Would you like to visit this country? Why? /
Why not?

Comprehension check
1

Watch the video clip. Choose the

correct answers.
1 Where is Queenstown?
a on a small island
b on North Island
c on South Island
2 Why did people come to Queenstown
in 1862?
a to find gold
b to live on farms
c to see the mountains and lakes
3 What is the most famous adventure activity
in Queenstown?
a jet boating
b bungee jumping
c parachute jumping

Watch again. Which is oldest: a or b?

1 a the Lord of the Rings books
b the Lord of the Rings movies
2 a farms in Queenstown
b gold in Queenstown
3 a the Shotover jet boat
b the TSS Earnshaw
4 a jet boat trips in Queenstown
b bungee jumps in Queenstown
5 a bungee jumps in Queenstown
b bungee jumps in other towns

Watch again. Match 16 to af to make

names of people and places in the video.
1 Tasman
2 South
3 Lake
4 Peter
5 J. R.R.
6 Kawarau

Watch again. Write the answers.

1 Which island is Wellington on?

2 Who are Kiwis?

3 Which country are the Lord of the Rings
books from?

4 Where did a man first find gold in
Queenstown?

5 What did the first tourists in Queenstown like
doing in winter?

6 How many people have taken jet boats on the
Shotover River?

7 How does the girl in the video feel about her
first bungee jump?

8 How dangerous is bungee jumping?

a Tolkein
b Wakatipu
c River
d Sea
e Jackson
f Island

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Watch again. Complete the sentences

with the numbers and years.

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Units 5 6 Adventure sports in Queenstown

Language check

8 Complete the sentences with the words in

the box.

Present perfect / Simple past

alreadyforjustsinceyet

These tourists have come from many countries.

Weve already been to Queenstown. We

went there last year.
1 My grandparents have lived in New Zealand
2009.
2 The jet boat has
left! It left thirty
seconds ago.
3 Adventure activities have been popular
many years.
4 I havent tried bungee jumping
.
Maybe next year!

In 1862 a man discovered gold.

Present perfect + already / yet / just / for /
since
Over 300,000 people have already done a
bungee jump.
This girl hasnt jumped yet.
These people have just jumped out of an
airplane.
Boats have traveled across Lake Wakatipu for
over a hundred years.

Extension

People have done bungee jumps since 1988.

6 Complete the text with the correct present

perfect form of the verbs.
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(go) to Lake W
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vacation. We

7 Are the verbs in these sentences correct ()

or incorrect ()? Correct the mistakes.
In 1900, not many people have lived X lived
in Queenstown.
1 Movie-makers have filmed
lots
of movies around Queenstown.
2 We have visited
North Island
last summer.
3 In the nineteenth century, many people have
traveled
to Queenstown.
4 People have come
here from all
over the world.
5 In 1970, some people have been
on the first jet boat.

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Look at the photos and answer the questions.

Photo A

What is happening in the photo?

Would you like to try this activity? Why? / Why not?
Do you like doing adventure activities? Which ones?
Which kind of vacations do you prefer: adventure
vacations, beach vacations, or city vacations? Why?

Photo B
What is happening in the photo?
How do you think the people are feeling?
Which activity do you prefer: the one in Photo A,
or the one in photo B? Why?
Whats the scariest thing youve ever done?
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