English Unlimited HTL 4/5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

13 Discovery 01 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS Work alone. Complete these sentences about issues and priorities with your own ideas, using -ing forms where you can. Your country Your personal life 1 A lot of people are concerned about … 4   … is my main focus at the moment. 2 The government’s focused on … 5   … can sometimes be a problem. 3 I think … should be the top priority. 6   … takes up too much of my time. Listen to each other’s sentences. How similar are your ideas about priorities? 14 SPEaKInG 15 Choosing a subject for a documentary Look at the pictures of the four people who crossed frontiers or made discoveries. Do you know, or can you guess: a where they were / are from? b   in which field they excelled? c   anything else about them? LISTEnInG 16 David Lama Leif Eriksson Hedy Lamarr Orlando Villas Boas Listen to the researcher’s talk about Leif Eriksson. In what order did Eriksson visit these places? Labrador  Baffin Island  Vinland  Norway  Listen again and answer the questions. 1 When was Eriksson born? 4   What was Vinland like? 2 How did he arrive in North America? 5   When did Eriksson die? 3 How many men travelled with him? 6   Where might Vinland have been? Replace each underlined part in 1–7 with an expression from the box which has a similar meaning. claim  mentions  vary  According to  who you ask  are in agreement  make no mention of 1 Depending on where you look , he was born around 970 or 975. 2 In one version, he was blown off course by bad weather. 3 Other sources state that he was following the route of an earlier explorer.   4 In one article, it says that he sailed with thirty-five men. 5 Interestingly, several sites say nothing about any companions. 6 Most sources agree that Leif Eriksson died in about 1020. 7 Where exactly was Vinland? Sources differ on this question. 17 TCD  1/01 18 LanGUaGE FOCUS 19 Giving and comparing sources Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv