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3 B DO WHAT YOU LOVE!

READING & WRITING

1 Read the quotes below. Which one is your favourite? How do you say it in your own
language?

“If you want to go big, stop thinking small.”

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.”

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.”

“If you dream it, you can do it.”

2 Look at the words in bold and choose the correct meanings.
1. He wants to take up photography and travel around the world.
a) start b) fnish
2. My ambition is to be a race car driver.
a) fear b) goal
3. On a rainy day if you don’t have an umbrella, it is a misfortune.
a) bad luck b) advantage
4. She decides to give up working long hours and spend more time with her family.
a) stop b) fght
5. Hannah trains hard to become a famous violinist.
a) teaches b) practises
6. The villagers share the responsibilities to be fair.
a) different b) equal

3 Read the text and choose why Coach Peary decides to help Eddie.
a. to join the Olympic Games. b. to be fair.

Do you ever take up a hobby just because you
see it in a movie

1 Sometimes you just go to the cinema to watch a movie 13 He has many misfortunes during his jumps. Most
but you get out of it with a new hobby. Some people start people say he wants to reach the moon but he
cooking after watching ‘Julie & Julia’ and some start playing 15 tries hard and never gives up. Skiing becomes
the drums with the flm ‘Whiplash’. Some even try ski his life. He travels to Germany to learn more
5 jumping. It is a little bit challenging, but when you watch about the sport. Luckily, he meets Coach Peary
‘Eddie the Eagle’, you can change your mind. The movie there. Coach Peary sees his unsuccessful jumps
is full of fascinating snow scenes and exciting ski jumps. It and doesn’t want to help him at frst. He tells
is the true story of Eddie Edwards. It is a comedy-drama. 20 Eddie to give up. Then, he thinks this is not fair
The stars are Taron Egerton (Eddie) and Hugh Jackman and agrees to train him. With the help of the
10 (the coach). Eddie is a teenager. His ambition is to join coach, Eddie’s dream comes true. At the end of
the Olympic Games. He tries his hand at different Olympic the movie, Eddie shows the world ‘If you dream
events and decides on ski jumping. 24 it, you can do it.’

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