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B. The Odd Man Out HOBBIES AND SKILLS
THEME 2

Reading & Writing

1 a. Look at the celebrities. Do you know what they are into? Guess and write their hobbies
under the correct photos.
playing tennis diving building model planes cooking and baking

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Feryal Özel Fuat Güner J. K. Rowling Aamir Khan
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b. Now, check your answers and tell the one attracts you most.

2 & Work in groups of three. Read your given paragraph and match the words with their
defnitions.
...... 1. feat a. cause someone to have a particular feeling
...... 2. curvy b. an exciting action done by someone skilled
A ...... 3. stunt c. admit something that is wrong or inconvenient
...... 4. arouse d. something diffcult that needs a lot of skill
...... 5. confess e. full of curves
...... 1. ride a. continue to have something
...... 2. visual b. a journey in a vehicle
B ...... 3. quest c. part of something compared to the whole
...... 4. retain d. relating to seeing
...... 5. proportion e. a long search for something
...... 1. dub a. go below the surface of the sea
...... 2. resistance b. impossible to damage in any way
C ...... 3. scoff c. give someone a particular name
...... 4. invulnerable d. laugh about an idea that is silly
...... 5. submerge e when someone or something resists

A

Eskil Ronningsbakken, one of the most incredible performance artists in
the world, got into the art of balancing when he was just fve years old. His
interest aroused when he saw a person doing one of a kind feat on TV.
At the age of 18, he felt like the odd man out at school and he ran away
to a circus. He performed there for 11 years. He knew that balancing was
exactly what he wanted to do. In his early thirties, Ronningsbakken put
his life on the line by riding a bike on a tight rope over a canyon and doing
handstands on a bar that hung under a fying hot air balloon. Later, he
rode his bicycle backward down on one of the curviest roads in Norway. In
one of his interviews, he confessed that he got anxious before stunts and
added if he ever lost his sense of fear, he’d immediately quit.

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