Watch video.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org.cn/general-english/word-on-the-street/snowdon/extreme-sports
Choose the correct answers, according to the video.
1 What can we call people who enjoy dangerous sports?
a) fear seekers or adrenalin junkies
b) thrill junkies or adrenalin seekers
c) adrenalin junkies or thrill seekers
d) fear junkies or thrill seekers
2 What facility does the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham have?
a) a specially built seven hundred metre white-water course
b) a natural seven hundred metre white-water course
3 Why does Pas think people like dangerous sports?
a) to get close to nature
b) to have an adventure
c) to test themselves
4 Why is parkour popular in London?
a) Because there aren’t many extreme sports to choose from in the city.
b) Because it started in London.
c) Because people in the city like keeping fit and beating fear.
5 What do you need to do parkour?
a) a good pair of trainers and a parkour park
b) a good pair of trainers and parkour equipment
c) a good pair of trainers
Объяснение:
We use ―there is (are)‖ constructions talking about the existence or absence of people or things
in a definite place. These constructions have the meaning «есть, имеется, находится,
существует». The verb ―to be‖ in such constructions can be used in different tense forms: there
is/are, there was/were, there will be, there has/have been, there had been. The verb ―to be‖ in
such constructions can be used with modal verbs (can, may, must, ought to): There must be a
dictionary on the shelf. We can also use some other verbs after ―there‖ – to live, to exist, to
stand, to lie, etc.: There exist different opinions on the problem.
In ―there is (are)‖ constructions we observe the following word order:
―there is (are)‖+subject+adverbial modifier of time/place.
The corresponding Russian sentences begin with adverbial modifiers: There is a telephone in my
room. – В моей комнате есть (имеется) телефон. See the difference: The telephone is in my
room. – Телефон в моей комнате.
If the subjects are of different number the predicate agrees with the subject that stands first:
There is a table and six chairs in the room. There were some books and a dictionary on the desk.
Commentary: ―There are plenty of books on the bookshelves in her study‖ is a sentence with the
introductory ― there‖ which is used to point out the existence of some things in a definite place,
the subject of the sentence is expressed by a countable noun in plural.
―There isn‘t any soup in the plate‖ ‖ is a sentence with the introductory ― there‖ which is used to
point out the absence of something in a def
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