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Unit 2 Listening Practice

The document summarizes several survival stories. It discusses a man who survived 66 days lost at sea after his boat sank, using solar stills to produce drinking water. It also describes two climbers, where one fell into a crevasse and had to be cut loose by the other, as lowering him on a rope was too dangerous in the storm conditions.

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Unit 2 Listening Practice

The document summarizes several survival stories. It discusses a man who survived 66 days lost at sea after his boat sank, using solar stills to produce drinking water. It also describes two climbers, where one fell into a crevasse and had to be cut loose by the other, as lowering him on a rope was too dangerous in the storm conditions.

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Listening practice Unit 2

A close shave
1 Read the words and the definitions. Make sure you understand them before listening.

solar stills: equipment to make drinkable water


malnourished: weak and in bad health because of having too little food or too little of the types of food necessary for good
health
deteriorating: becoming worse
frostbitten: to be injured by severe cold, usually to toes, fingers, ears, or nose
crevasse: a very deep crack in the thick ice of a glacier (= moving mass of ice)
crawl: to move slowly or with difficulty, especially with your body stretched out along the ground or on hands and knee

2 Read the first lines of the listening. What do you think it will be about?

Presenter: Hello and welcome to the show. Today we’re looking at survival. We’re going to start off by discussing some famous
survival stories. I’m joined by Jane Hargreaves and Tom Dryden who have written a lot about survival. Welcome to the show.

3 02 Listen and circle T (true) or F (false). Give reasons 5 02 Listen again. Choose the best answers.
to justify your answers. 1 How many days was Steven lost at sea?
1 Steven’s boat sank six days after leaving the Canary Islands. a 67
T/F b 77
c 76
2 Steven survived at sea for more than two months. T / F 2 Steven used solar stills …
a to catch fish.
3 Steven never went out to sea again. T / F b to produce drinking water.
c to protect himself from the sun.
4 Simon and Joe didn’t reach the mountain peak. T / F 3 Simon decided to lower Joe on a rope because …
a Joe had broken his leg and they needed to descend the
5 Simon and Joe survived the climb. T / F mountain quickly.
b Joe had broken his leg and the weather was improving.
c Joe had a broken leg and was ill.
4 Listen again and answer the questions in your
02
4 Simon cut the rope because …
own words.
a Joe was too light to pull up and he couldn’t think of
1 How did Steven catch fish?
another way out.

b Joe was not light enough to pull up and he didn’t know
2 Where was he rescued? what else to do.
c the weather made it difficult to think.
3 Why did the climb to the top take longer than expected? 5 Joe managed to …
a climb up the glacier to reach the camp.
4 What happened to Joe on the way down? b walk through the crevasse to camp.
c escape from the crevasse and crawl to the camp.
5 What did Simon do the day after the storm?

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