What's the most exciting or dangerous situation you've ever been in? This is the question the presenter to this week's Richmond vodcast poses to us.
Self-study activity:
Watch the video clip through. What is today's vodcast about? What is Tom's true story? What is Alex's true story?
Watch the video clip again. What details can you give about the four stories that Tom and Alex tell?
Speaking activity:
Tell the stories in your own words.
Get together with an English speaking friend or relative and talk about a time when something dangerous or exciting happened to you.
Key:
Tom and Alex are going to tell us two stories that happened to them in the past, but only one of the stories is true.
The one about the stingray is true.
The one about the parachute is true.
Tom came off the back of a motorbike while he was in the Andes.
He was a passenger on the motorbike, he wasn't riding it.
They rounded a corner and suddenly a lorry was coming towards them.
The lorry driver pulled dramatically and they went down the side of the mountain.
Fortunately, they got caught in a tree.
He broke a rib.
Tom was attacked by a dangerous animal on the beach in Colombia.
It was a stingray, a flat fish with a tail and poison.
It attacked his foot and has a scar now.
He had just been in the sea and when he was coming out he felt something and saw a hole in his foot, with blood coming out.
He could fill the poison was climbing his leg.
Alex slept at a bus station in Rome for two days when she was in her twenties.
She went to Rome with her friend who at the time lived in Prague, and she needed a visa to go back to Prague.
She didn't have a visa. It was a Friday. She had to stay in Rome until Monday, but on Monday when she went to the embassy it was a bank holiday, so on Tuesday when she finally got her visa and went back to the bus station to get a ticket, they only had a ticket for Thursday.
She was stuck at the station for two days because she had already checked out of the hotel
She threw up in the air while she was parachuting somewhere in England.
She was nervous. She got motion sickness.
It was a tandem parachute. She was attached to a guy.
It was hot. They had a 30-second free [fall?]
She told the guy she was feeling a bit queasy.
The guy on the plane gave her a sick bag. It was very embarrasing for her.
