PENGUIN READERS Activity worksheets LEVEL 2 Teacher Support Programme Extreme Sports Photocopiable While reading Pages 4–9 Pages 1–3 2 Complete the sentences. Use words in the box. 1 Complete the crossword. next to from with each the after Across above in 4 In ………… you climb into a three meter ball and somebody pushes the ball down the a US police put BASE jumpers ……… prison. street. (7) b John Vincent went ……… prison for ninety 7 In wake ………… you stand on your board days. and a boat pulls you over the water. (8) c He jumped ……… a tall building in St 8 In street ………… your board has wheels. Louis. You lie on your board and you go down the d Yosemite is ……… most famous national road very fast! (4) park in the United States. 9 In BMX bike ………… (vert) you do as e In 1978, some people jumped from El many tricks as you can in one minute. (6) Capitan ……… parachutes. 11 In ………… in-line skating, you jump high f ……… 100 skydives you get a BASE number. on your skates, you kick and you do tricks. g The world is beautiful when you see it from (10) ……… . 1 2 h About one person dies ……… year after a 3 jump. 4 i Who will be the ……… person in the BASE Association? 5 6 7 3 Answer the questions. Choose 1, 2, or 3. 8 a How old was Bill Moyes when he started hang 9 10 gliding? ….. 1) 14 11 12 2) 34 3) 43 b How old was his son, Steve Moyes? ….. 1) 14 2) 34 Down 3) 4 1 ………… is like bungee jumping but you c What time did Bill wake up his son every jump into cold water! (9) morning? ….. 2 In BASE ………… you jump off a building 1) four o’clock or bridge with a parachute. (7) 2) six o’clock 3 ………… gliding is the oldest extreme 3) seven thirty sport. (4) d What did they do before Steve went to 5 In ………… ballet you jump out of an school? ….. airplane with some friends. (6) 1) They made hang gliders. 6 In ………… jumping you jump from a high 2) They sold hang gliders. place with a rope around you. (6) 3) They went hang gliding. 10 In cave ………… you dive under the water e Bill loved flying but what didn’t he like? ….. with air on your back. (6) 1) airports 12 ………… boarders do their tricks in the 2) airplanes snow. (4) 3) airlines c Pearson Education Limited 2008 Extreme Sports - Activity worksheets 1 of 2 PENGUIN READERS Activity worksheets LEVEL 2 Teacher Support Programme Extreme Sports Photocopiable Pages 10–14 7 Underline the mistakes in these sentences. 4 Number the sentences in the correct order. a When you bungee jump, you jump from a a Alma said, “Street luge is not for me, mountain, from a chair, or from a bridge. but I don’t want to stop you.” c b You have a string around your body. b Alma’s friend said, “My brother has a c Bungee jumping started in Old Zealand. board.” c d The lowest bungee jump was 180 meters from c Tom said, “I’ll stop doing street luge.” c a building in Auckland. d Tom saw luge on the TV. c e When you do canyoning, you fall down and e Alma and Tom tried luge together. c down into very cold ice cream. f Tom went at 113 km/h down a street. c f The sport started in France, and it’s safe. g Tom bought a board, clothes and shoes g “People are jumping into water head first for street luge. c from palaces thirty meters high,” says extreme h Tom knocked down a woman. c sports instructor Phil Maguire. i Tom said, “I’m sorry.” c h “Sometimes they hit their hats when they j Alma wasn’t happy. c go in.” k Alma had an accident. c i “Sometimes the water is walking very fast.” 5 Match a–h with 1–8 to make correct j “Some people don’t ride up again.” sentences. Pages 20–26 a Snowboarding 1) but she couldn’t. 8 Put a 3 beside the correct sentences. started in … a Every year, in the US there’s a summer b There was snow 2) made the first X Games and a winter X Games. c … snowboard. b The first summer X Games was in 1895 c c Sherman Poppen 3) winter in Michigan. in Rhode Island. watched … c The winter X Games started two years later with mountain biking on snow, d Wendy tried to 4) her new snowboard. snowball fights and building snowmen. c stand up … d Now there are X Games in Asia, e Wendy fell … 5) and ice on the Australia and Europe. c ground. e Dave Mirra, the world’s number five f Sherman went to 6) every time. BMX rider was the BMX vert champion. c his garage and … f Mehgan Heaney-Greer can dive 55 meters g Wendy loved … 7) Wendy go down the under water with no air. c ice on some wood. g Alcatraz was a prison for extreme sports h Wendy’s friends 8) wanted snowboards, champions. c … too. h It’s about three kilometers from San Francisco. c Pages 15–19 i Every fall, people try to swim from 6 Complete the sentences with the correct Alcatraz to San Francisco. c letters. j The water is very cold and there are a Michael …..ean enjoys cave diving. dangerous frogs in the water. c b He found an …..nstructor. k The Kamikaze Bike Race is the most c “Ha…..e you got a C-card?” asked the dangerous bike race in the world. c instructor. l Some people ride at 72 km/h on their d “No, I haven’t,” Michael repl…..ed. bikes. c e Michael said, “I wa…..t to dive in caves.” f “That’s dan…..erous,” the instructor said. Make a word from the letters. c Pearson Education Limited 2008 Extreme Sports - Activity worksheets 2 of 2 PENGUIN READERS Progress test LEVEL 2 Teacher Support Programme Extreme Sports Photocopiable 1 Which extreme sports use a rope and which use 5 Which words which are NOT connected with these a parachute? Copy the extreme sport under the sports? correct heading. a cave diving: air, parachute, line, swim bungee jumping sky diving BASE jumping b BMX vert: minute, tricks, ride, rope aerial ballet cave diving canyoning c aerial ballet: dance, run, sky, airplane Parachute Rope d street luge: board, road, fast, ball e zorbing: jump, ball, street, push f running: legs, water, feet, bike g hang gliding: board, glider, fly, jump h BASE jumping: number, rope, high, bridge 2 Tick 3 the equipment which has wheels. 6 Are these words places or people? Choose the a BMX bike c correct answer. b in-line skates c a Yosemite place / person c parachute c b Houston place / person d hang glider c c Boenisch place / person e airplane c d Harrison place / person f ice luge c e Kilimanjaro place / person g street luge c f Vicki place / person h skateboard c g Costello place / person i wakeboard c h Orlando place / person j snowboard c i Bren place / person k ice skates c j Alma place / person 3 Tick 3 the extreme sports in, on or under water. k Wendy place / person a cave diving c l Orlowski place / person b sky diving c m Auckland place / person c rock climbing c n Nyquist place / person d street luge c o Mehgan place / person e canyoning c p Alcatraz place / person f wakeboarding c q Borneo place / person g zorbing c 7 Complete the sentences with the words below. h swimming c dive equipment wheel skates race parachute i BMX bike riding c instructor j surf boarding c a My first ………… was in the Pacific Ocean and k aerial ballet c I saw some beautiful fish. 4 Tick 3 the countries which are mentioned in b On some very old bikes, the front ………… was Extreme Sports. bigger than the back wheel. a the United States c c She won the 400 meter …………, and the b France c Japanese woman came second. c Norway c d After you jump from the airplane, you have to open d Brazil c your …………! e Antarctica c e He wanted to climb the mountain with us, but he f New Zealand c didn’t have the right ………… . g Switzerland c f There is an ………… at the pool, and he is giving h Austria c me swimming lessons. i Germany c g You can move fast with ………… on your feet. j Australia c k Borneo c l Britain c c Pearson Education Limited 2008 Extreme Sports - Progress test 1 of 1.