Extreme Situations: Prepositions, Collocations & Grammar

Extreme Situations: Prepositions, Collocations & Grammar

River deep, mountain high!

Choose the correct answers.

Multiple Choice

With temperatures well (1) ________ freezing and very strong winds, a mountain top is an extreme place to be!

• after

• below

• besides

Multiple Choice

The tallest mountain (2)__________the planet is, of course, Mount Everest.

• on

• at

• of

Multiple Choice

Its peak rises 8,850 metres (3)____________ sea level.

• among

• along

• above

Multiple Choice

(4)__________ the years, 1,200 people have made the long, lonely climb to the top of Everest!

• In

• Over

• Down

Multiple Choice

The Sahara Desert is in North Africa and is (5)___________ the same size as the USA!

• about

• between

• opposite

Multiple Choice

With so much sun and very little rain, summer temperatures there are often (6)__________ 32° Celsius.

• toward

• outside

• over

Multiple Choice

It begins in the mountains of Peru, goes (7)_________ South America and ends at the Atlantic Ocean.

• behind

• across

• onto

Multiple Choice

As well as the lovely pink dolphins there are also some horrible creatures (8)_________ the water, including flesh-eating piranha!

• in

• outside

• above

Open Ended

Which of these extreme places you would most like to visit? Why?

Collocations & Expressions

Complete the following sentences with the collocations below:

- keep calm

- do your best

- get lost

- go missing

- save someone's life

- go on a journey

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Everyone should _______ their ______ at school.

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You must wear a lifejacket when you're on a boat. It might _______ your ________.

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Try to

if you are in a dangerous situation.

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Take a map with you. You don't want to

.

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Many people

every year while out walking in the mountains.

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I'll

to the Amazon next year when I've saved up enough money.

Open Ended

"It's always better to keep calm in extreme situations."

Do you agree with this statement? Why? / Why not?

*Try to use at least one of the collocations in your response.

Grammar

1. Question tags

2. Subject & object questions

3. Negative questions

Question Tags

• All the passengers in the train crash were rescued, weren't they?

• The climbers haven't reached the summit yet, have they?

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Question tags are short questions that we add at the

of a sentence.

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We use a

question tag with an affirmative sentence.

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We use a(n)

question tag with a negative sentence.

Question Tags

• Question tags are short questions that we add at the end of a sentence.

• We use a negative question tag with an affirmative sentence. E.g. All the passengers in the train crash were rescued, weren't they?

• We use an affirmative question tag with a negative sentence. E.g. The climbers haven't reached the summit yet, have they?

Subject Questions

• The word who / what / which asks about the subject of the sentence.

• The word order in the question is the same as the order that we usually use for statements.

• Who climbed Mount Everest for the first time?

• (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest for the first time.)

Object Questions

• The word who / what / which asks about the object of the sentence.

• The word order changes in the question form.

• Who will the rescue team try to find?

• (The rescue team will try to find the missing climbers.)

Negative Questions

• To express surprise:

  Isn't that one of the most amazing survival stories you've ever heard?

• When we expect the listener to agree with us:

  Didn't you hear about the flood? It was on the news!

• Answer "yes" to agree / confirm a positive opinion.

• Answer "no" to disagree / confirm a negative opinion.

Complete Ex. F, G, H (p. 91).