Unit 4:

VOCABULARY (travel and transports):



Around: al voltant
Across: atrevesar
Down: baixar
Up: pujar
Into: entrar dins
Out of: sortir a fora
Over: per exemple passar per un pont
Through: atravesar-la per dins


Plane: avió
Bus: bus
Ferry: tranvia
Taxi: taxi
motorcycle: moto
Bicycle: bicicleta
Train: tren
Underground: el subterrani





READING (news):


Three complete epic tuk-tuk trip for charity

Three emn and their trusty tuk-tuk have conquered a charity challenge travelling thousands of miles through India.

The father-and-sons trio completed The Rickshaw Run, driving the length of the country, across inhospitable terrain, with only a 150cc engine to power them.

They survived a dramatic bedroom fire on their first night, pushed their tuk-tuk “Bessie” up hills and took their place in the Indian roads hierarchy behind almost everything, including cattle.

Covering 3,150km in eight days, the Ipswich team, Dark side of the Naan, came second in the race from the Keralan town of Cochin in the south, to deep in the Himalayan hills and the town of Gantok, Sikkim, just four hours behind the winners and four days ahead of third place.

Competing against 71 other teams, Tony Welton, 52 and his two sons, Ollie Welton, 22 and 27-year-old Matt Green crossed the line, 11 places ahead of a Norwich team, raising £1,000 for the designated Indian charities, Frank Water Projects (which funds clean water projects in developing countries) and Mercy Corps (which help countries in the aftermath of disasters).

The trio also raised around £1,200 for Coping with Breast Cancer. Ollie, who works in IT for the BBC, said the experience was “absolutely amazing,” with the scenery changing every few miles. Battling through temperatures reaching 40C with a top speed of 55 mph, the trio were up at the crack of dawn driving until nightfall.

He said: “Night time driving was fun, surrounded by lorries on a highway with little more than two candles strapped to the front for lights and the two passengers hanging out the sides with wind up torches.“The bigger you were the more rights you had. I think we were pretty much below everything else on the road, including cattle, and we would have several near misses every day as vehicles overtook in both directions.

WRITING:

• vocabulary (verbs)
  

Snow, mountain: SKI

Mountain, tower: CLIMB

Plane, sky: FLY

Boat, sea: SAIL

Horse, roller, coaster: RIDE

Sea, pool: SWIM

Car, motocycle: DRIVE

• Present perfect

Affirmative:

Subject___________has/ have_________Past participle

I/you______________have_____________climbed

He/ she/ it__________has______________travelled

We/ you/ they_______have_____________swum



Negative:



Subject____________hasn't/ haven't_______________Past participle

I/ you________________haven't_______________________cycled

He/ she/ it____________hasn't________________________arrived

We/ you/ they_________haven't_______________________flew



Interrogative:



Has/ have_____________Subject__________Ever___________Past participle__?

Have__________________I/ you____________ever___________ridden a horse___?

Has__________________He/ she/ it_________ever___________sailed a boat____?

Have_________________We/ you/ they_______ever___________driven a car_____?




Examples:

Affirmative: He has studied maths.

Negative: I haven't travelled with you.
Interrogative: What countries have you been to?

• You can use the present perfenct with JUST, ALREADY and YET.
  

Already: when are you going to do your homework? I've already done it !!!!

Yet: I've written the letter but I haven't posted it yet.

Just: She is just floen home from the USA.

6. Complete the sentences with the present perfect and just:

1. You 've just eaten.

2. I 've just gone on holiday.

3. He 's just had a snack.

4. They has just finish.

5. They 've just arrived at the campsite.

6. We 've just met the new teacher.

7. I 've just seen Tim.




INVENTIONS:

China produce cubic watermelons, the more nutritious

A Chinese biotechnology institute has managed to cultivate a cube-shaped watermelons, more nutritious and easier to store than traditional spherical, according to the state agency Xinuha. Quadrature technique combines the application of advanced biotechnology with the use of simple cubic molds. They have the same quality as the traditional skin with a "hard and elastic, although they are more nutritious, because the process compresses the fruit and thus its nutrients. EFE.