This document provides information about adventurers and includes examples of famous adventurers such as Charles Lindbergh, George Mallory, and John Muir. It also contains exercises that ask the reader to match terms with their definitions, people with their accomplishments, idioms with their meanings, and decide if characters in a conversation will win an internet quiz based on their answers. The document covers topics like relative clauses, matching activities, people in history, idioms, and comprehending a conversation.

1. UNIT 12
ADVENTURERS

2. What is an adventurer?
An adventurer is a person who loves adventures.
relative clause
A relative clause gives more
information about the person in the
sentence so that you can identify this
person. The relative pronoun who
always refers to people, not things.
relative pronoun

3. Matching: match the nouns in column A with the definitions in
column B (Activity 1a and 1b, p. 108, English Elements Book 2)
1. A colleague is a person who...
2. A cosmopolitan is a person who...
3. A jogger is a person who...
4. A motorist is a person who...
5. A poet is a person who...
6. A politician is a person who...
7. A hotelier is a person who...
8. An astronaut is a person who...
9. A journalist is a person who...
10. A dentist is a person who...
11. A friend is a person who...
12. A neighbour is a person who...
a) goes jogging.
b) works together with you.
c) is at home in all parts of the world.
d) is involved in politics
e) owns a hotel.
f) drives a car.
g) writes poems
h) lives near you.
i) writes articles for newspapers.
j) travels into outer space
k) is always there for you.
l) helps with your teeth’s problems

4. CHARLES LINDBERGH GEORGE MALLORY
JOHN MUIR

5. 1. CHARLES LINDBERGH
2. GEORGE MALLORY
3. JOHN MUIR
a) ...was the person who tried to walk
across the Antarctic.
b) ...was the person who made the first
non-stop, solo flight across the Atlantic.
c) ...was the person who tried to fly
around the world in a hot-air balloon.
e) ...was the person who founded the
Yosemite National Park.
f) ...was the person who crossed the
Atlantic in a rowing – boat.
d) ...was the person who tried 3 times to
climb Mount Everest.

6. Match the idiomatic expressions with their meanings
Idiomatic expressions
1. And how!
2. We’ve just done...
3. I can’t be bothered
4. Haven’t a clue.
5. Let’s go for...
6. Anything for a quiet life.
7. Give me a look.
Meanings
a) I don’t want to.
b) I’ll do anything if you don’t
disturb me.
c) I really don’t know.
d) Let me see.
e) It certainly is.
f) Let’s take/ choose...
g) We’ve just gone through...

7. Janice and her friend Lisa have seen a quiz on the
Internet. The quiz has 3 questions. If they answer the
questions correctly, they’ll win. Listen to their
conversation and decide if they’ll win the quiz or not.
Why or why not? (Activity 1c, p. 109, English Elements
Book 2)
Janice and Lisa

10. have to
must
had to
have to/must
have to
had to
has to
have to
had to
has had to