4b The survivors Vocabulary personal qualities Reading survival stories into 1 Complete the table. Use a dictionary, if necessary. books and fi lms 4 Adjective Noun Read the article. Then match the stories (A–E) with the statements (1–8) on page 31. Sometimes more determined 1 determination than one story matches a statement.

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3 care The survivors decisive 4 Some of the best fi lms and books come from true stories. Th is is particularly true for stories about 5 experience mountaineers and explorers. Here are fi ve of the best stories which became books and fi lms. 6 intelligence A patient In 1996 Jon Krakauer went to . 7 He wanted to climb the mountain and write about 8 reliability how the mountain was changing. However, while he was there, eight people died in terrible weather on the side of the mountain. Krakauer described what 2 Pronunciation word stress happened in his book Into Th in Air. a 1.23 Listen and check your answers in B When a plane was fl ying over the in 1972, Exercise 1. Then mark the main stress in each word. it crashed but some of the passengers survived. Example: Two Uruguayan men, Nando Parrado and Roberto determined, determination Canessa, walked for many days across the mountains to get help. Th eir story became a fi lm called Alive. b 1.23 Listen again and repeat. C In 1865, while Edward Whymper and his team were 3 Complete the sentences with the adjectives in climbing the Matterhorn mountain, one of the men Exercise 1. fell. As he fell, his rope pulled others down with him. Whymper survived and wrote a book about the events. 1 Be on the side of the mountain. D There’s a lot of snow out there today. Th e climber George Mallory wanted to be the fi rst person to climb Everest in 1924. He never 2 I’m to reach the top and nothing returned, but no one knows if he reached the top. is going to stop me! As a result, there are many books about this famous 3 My brother was lazy at school but because mystery. he was so he passed all his E exams anyway. While the explorer Ernest Shackleton was sailing around Antarctica his ship, Endurance, became stuck 4 At my company, some people are so in the ice. Eventually, Shackleton and his crew left they will do anything to get the ship and they spent sixteen days crossing 1,300 a promotion. kilometres of ocean in small boats to the island of 5 Don’t get angry every time someone is late. South Georgia. Shackleton published his famous You need to learn to be more story of survival in 1919. with people. 6 He’s so in mountaineering that he feels very confi dent about this next challenge. 7 My car isn’t very . It breaks down all the time. 8 Are you coming out this weekend or not? Please be more !

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