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Formula One STAGE 3 CHAPTER 4 WHILE READING Before Reading 1 + g At the practice sessions, drivers test the cars on the circuit. BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES (PAGE 60) 2 + e Drivers try to get the fastest time in the ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING qualifying session. 3 + b The fastest driver starts the race in pole 1 tunnel NSWERS 2 barrier position. A 3 tyre 4 + f Drivers drive one lap to heat the car’s engines 4 kart and tyres before the race starts. 5 helmet 5 + c The race starts when five red lights are 6 sand switched off. 7 safety belt 6 + a Drivers often follow other cars closely before 8 cup they overtake. ACTIVITIES 9 steering wheel 7 + h The cars have pit stops to change tyres and make repairs during the race. ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING 8 + d Flags give the drivers information during the Formula One drivers: Jenson Button (UK), Juan race. Manuel Fangio (Argentina), Michael Schumacher (Germany), Niki Lauda (Austria), Felipe Massa (Brazil) CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 WHILE READING Other sports people: David Beckham (football), 1 Emile Levassor won the world’s first real car race. Cristiano Ronaldo (football); Rafael Nadal (tennis); 2 The winning car’s speed was 24 kilometres per hour. Tiger Woods (golf); Lance Armstrong (cycling) 3 City-to-city racing ended after an accident in France. 4 After the First World War, racing car engines became more powerful. While Reading 5 A supercharger pushes air through a car engine. 6 The FIA created Formula One in 1948. CHAPTER 1 WHILE READING 7 The first Formula One cars had their engines in 1 Where – Silverstone, England. front of the driver. 2 Whose – Fangio’s. 8 Air moves faster under the wing of a Formula One 3 What – It hit a small animal on the track (but car. finished the race third). 9 Downforce keeps Formula One cars on the track. 4 Why – Because they were very close to the track and 10 In 1962 Lotus built a car without a frame. the cars went past them at 160 kilometres per hour. 11 Modern Formula One cars have seven gears. 5 Where – Bahrain. 6 How many – Four. CHAPTERS 7 AND 8 WHILE READING 7 Who – Fernando Alonso. 1 Jackie Stewart. 2 It changes shape, but it doesn’t break. CHAPTERS 2 AND 3 WHILE READING 3 Five (two over the shoulders, one around the middle 1 A formula is a set of rules for some types of car of the driver’s body and two around the legs). race. 4 In five seconds. 2 Each time around the circuit is called a lap. 5 They must follow the safety car and stop racing. 3 Racing teams have garages in the pits. 6 He started when he was eight years old. 4 The first ten cars in each race get points. 7 His heart beats as fast as the heart of a 40-kilometre 5 Racing teams keep their designs secret. runner in a race. 6 Aerodynamics is how air moves over something like 8 Forces push on their heads when they stop or go a car. around corners. 7 A lot of Formula One car parts are made of a 9 Three kilograms. material called carbon fibre. 10 Visualisation is seeing a picture of something in your 8 A race engineer talks to the driver during the race. mind. XFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS XFORD UNIVERSITY O © OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY STAGE 3 1 FORMULA ONE Formula One STAGE 3 CHAPTER 9 WHILE READING ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING 1 Lauda paid money to race in Formula one cars. 1 Racing teams: designer, drag, engineer, mechanic, pit 2 Schumacher raced against his brother. crew 3 Senna was killed in a race in Italy. 2 Car parts: brakes, company, engine, steering wheel, 4 Fangio drove in long road races. tyres 5 Lauda had terrible burns after a crash. 3 Big business: advertising, company, logo, pit crew, NSWERS A 6 Senna won a very difficult race in his home city. sponsor 7 Schumacher won a championship when he was a 4 Circuits: corner, engine, pit lane, safety barrier, start young child. grid 8 Fangio built a racing car. 5 Aerodynamics: corner, drag, downforce, grip, wind tunnel CHAPTERS 10 AND 11 WHILE READING 1 forty-eight ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING ACTIVITIES 2 three hundred and twenty Brazil 2008 3 fourteen thousand ‘Glock didn’t go into the pits to change his tyres. That 4 thirty-one was a mistake, because now he’s losing grip in the rain. 5 seventy Hamilton’s right behind him as they race towards the 6 four hundred last two corners of the circuit. Yes! He’s gone past! Lewis Hamilton has become World Champion on the CHAPTERS 12 AND 13 WHILE READING last lap in the last race of the year – I’ve never seen 1 People in South America can watch the Singapore anything like it!’ Grand Prix in the morning in their own countries. 2 In the 1950s, most Formula One races were in Monaco 2010 Europe. ‘Barrichello has hit the crash barrier. He’s out of the 3 KERS technology helps to save fuel. race. He’s taken off his helmet and he looks OK, but 4 Future Formula One engines will be smaller and there are parts of his car on the track. The marshals they will burn less fuel. are trying to pick them up and the safety car has come 5 Woman drivers have never won a Formula One out onto the circuit. I can see yellow flags everywhere. championship race. All the drivers are slowing down now. They can’t 6 There aren’t any Formula One circuits in the overtake.’ Caribbean. (or You cannot go to watch Formula One ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING races anywhere in the Caribbean.) Open answers. 7 People waited for hours to see (or watch) Sébastien Buemi in Jamaica. ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING Open answers. After Reading ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING 1c o c k p i t 2c h i c a n e 3p e n a l t y 4h e l m e t 5s p e e d 6c i r c u i t 7s e n s o r s 8c o n s t r u c t The hidden word is CHAMPION. XFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS XFORD UNIVERSITY O Open answers. © OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY STAGE 3 2 FORMULA ONE.