Reading practice. Solutions intermediate 3rd U2

Reading practice. Solutions intermediate 3rd U2

Solutions intermediate 3rd p. 26-27

read the text and choose the best answer to the question

Multiple Choice

To take part in geocaching you need

• a mobile phone with GPS

• a mobile phone with GPS and a toy or gift

• a mobile phone, a toy or a gift and a logbook

• nothing - just yourself

Multiple Choice

The activity of geocaching

• began in the 19th century, but only became popular after 2000

• was originallypopular in one region of England, but nowhas fans all over the world

• was called 'letterbox' when it was first invented

• has similarities with a 19th-century game

Multiple Choice

When you find a gift in a geocache, you

• make a note of a gift in a geocache website

• can borrow the gift but have to return it

• are allowed to take a giftif you replace it with something else

• take a photo of the gift as proof you have found it

Multiple Choice

The writer thinks that the most enjoyable kind of geocaching is when

• you have to find a public webcam

• you have to find a series of geocaches

• you have to find a geocache and then hide it in a different place

• you simply have to find one geocache

Multiple Choice

The writer believes the 'Tumble after Dark' event

• is less fun than geocaching with a couple of friends

• would be a very enjoyable event to attend

• is only suitable for adventurous people

• needs to attract more people

Multiple Choice

The writer has written the blog mainly to

• suggest that people try geocaching

• explain the differences between letterboxing and geocaching

• publicise a geocaching event in Sweeden

• warn the reader that geocaching is addictive

Open Ended

Would you like to play this game? Why? Why not? Use the adjectives and phrases from ex.6 p.26. Write at least 5 sentences.

Text 2

Read the text and complete the task

Multiple Choice

The temperatures at North Pole might be around -30

• True

• false

Multiple Choice

There is a possibility of meeting polar bears while running

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The runners are taken from Swalbard to the camp by air

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Everyone has their own tent

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

participants never have to spend longer than two days on the ice

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Because of the ground, running times are difficult to predict

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Runners are given layers of warm clothes

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Nobody had run a marathon at both the Souht and North Poles before Richard Donovan

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Money from the marathonis put into projects only for protecting the North Pole

• true

• false

Poll

The texts and tasks were

• too easy

• too difficult

• just right