jueves, 7 de junio de 2007

Ejercicios para reforzar la comprensión del tema de People & Places .
Dylan contesta las siguientes preguntas:

1: What record did Sir Robin Knox-Johnston set in 1969?
2: How does he feel about his age and his achievement?
3: What activity would he like to learn to do?
4: What does he say he won't do again?

El vocabulario de este tema es:
ingle-handed
by yourself, without help from anyone else

solo
by yourself

Example:
Sailing solo around the world needs a lot of determination

to be no stranger to something
to have had a lot of experience of something

to get over (something)
to recover physically or emotionally from something

Examples:
"It took me about a week to get over the operation but then I was straight back to work."
"My Dad never really got over his divorce, he found it very difficult to make new friends."

to recharge the batteries
an expression which means to recover from something and get your energy back

to take something up
to learn something new, start a new hobby

Example:
"When I retire I think I'll take up surfing, I don't have the time now."