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1. Read the text.

Exploration

Yesterday, sixteen-year-old Hector Turner began his attempt to become the youngest Briton to complete a 242 km 'ultra-marathon' across the Sahara Desert. On the same day, Geordie Stewart, a twenty-year-old university student, set off for Everest. He wanted to be the youngest Briton to achieve the 'Seven Summits' challenge - climbing the highest mountain on each continent. Last year, Mike Perham circumnavigated the world alone by boat at the age of seventeen.
Why do today's teenagers feel this need for exploration and adventure? Why do they want to have wild experiences? Mike Perham has a theory: 'Kids dream more than adults.'

2. Complete the table with words from the text in exercise 1.

	Noun	Verb
intento -	Cloze (1):	attempt -	intentar
finalización -	completion	complete -	Cloze (2):
logro -	achievement	achieve -	Cloze (3):
Cloze (4):	need	need -	necesitar
Cloze (5):	exploration	explore -	explorar
Cloze (6):	experience	experience -	experimentar
sueño -	dream	Cloze (7):	soñar

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3. Suffixes

4. Dictionary work. Using the dictionary, find the nouns related to the verbs below. Check the meaning.

Verb	Noun	Meaning
entertain	Cloze (1):	entretenimiento
erupt	Cloze (2):	Cloze (3):
examine	Cloze (4):	Cloze (5):
motivate	Cloze (6):	Cloze (7):
relax	Cloze (8):	Cloze (9):
rescue	Cloze (10):	Cloze (11):

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5. Complete sentence b in each pair with the correct noun formed from the underlined verb in sentence a. Use a dictionary to help you if necessary.

1. a Teenagers who go on adventures should be proud of what they accomplish.
b Teenagers who go on adventures should be proud of their Cloze (1): .
2. a Companies will want to employ them.
b. Companies will want to offer them Cloze (2): .
3. a Preparing for the trips is the most difficult part.
b The most difficult part of the trips is the Cloze (3): .
4. a Teenagers shouldn't be allowed to risk their lives.
b Teenagers shouldn't be allowed to put their lives Cloze (4): .
5. a These trips are a great way to develop personal skills.
b These trips are great for the Cloze (5): lof personal skills.
6 a Young people want to go on these adventures because they aren't able to imagine the dangers.
b Young people want to go on these adventures because they don't have enough Cloze (6): to understand the dangers.
7. a Most teenagers dream of becoming famous.
b Cloze (7): of most teenagers is to become famous.

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Workbook

1. Write the noun form of these verbs. Some are the same as the verbs.

Verb	Noun
1. complete	Cloze (1):
2. achieve	Cloze (2):
3. need	Cloze (3): JXUwMDM2JXUwMDBiJXUwMDAwJXUwMDAx
4. dream	Cloze (4):
5. argue	Cloze (5):
6. fail	Cloze (6):
7. translate	Cloze (7):
8. erupt	Cloze (8):
9. rescue	Cloze (9):

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2. Complete the text with the noun form of the verbs in brackets. You may need the plural form.

Last year, at the age of seventeen, Mike Perham became the youngest sailor to complete a Cloze (1): (circumnavigate) of the world alone. But this year, two sixteen-year-old girls are beginning separate Cloze (2): (attempt) to beat his record. Last year, a thirteen-year-old Dutch girl , Laura Dekker, was finishing her Cloze (3): (prepare) for the same journey when a children's court stopped her. Now aged fourteen, she's trying again. It seems that many teenagers today aren't interested in the normal forms of Cloze (4): (entertain) and Cloze (5): (relax), like video games and sports. They want Cloze (6): (experience) that can really excite their Cloze (7): (imagine) and also help with the Cloze (8): (develop) of personal skills. So they choose Cloze (9): (explore). Their amazing accomplishment (accomplish) certainly look good on their CVs when it's time to find Cloze (10): (employ). But for most of thern, that probably isn't the main Cloze (11): (motivate).

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