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课件网) Unit 1 Breaking records Listen to the text. A BID FOR A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD Listen to the radio interview between Helen Griffin and two students from Maryville High School. (Helen = H, Luke = L, Josh = J) Listen again and fill in the blanks. H: I'm _____ ___ Luke and Josh from Maryville High School about their school's _____ to break a Guinness record in a couple of _____. Tell me — why did you decide to do this in the first place? talking to bid months L: Well, one day Josh and I were looking at a book of Guinness World Records and we _____ _____ _____ records ____ by groups of people. We were _____ ___ some of the things people do to get a Guinness record. H: Like what? started reading about set amazed at J: Like the most people in a group hug, the most people _____ at the same time, the most people hula hooping at the same time ... H: (interrupts) How _____! J: Yeah ... what else was there, Luke? L: Umm ... let's see ... the most people eating breakfast ... oh yeah, would you _____ that about 10,240 students _____ their teeth for one minute in China? juggling amazing believe brushed H: (laughs) You're _____! You're right, people are very _____. Now, the record you want to break is also amazing. Tell us about it. L: Well, we want to break the record for the most bodies painted at the _____ time. At the _____ the record is something like 116. kidding imaginative same moment H: Is that all? It doesn't _____ ____ many. L: No, so that's _____ Josh and I thought we could _____ break that if we got our schoolmates together. H: But you soon _____ ____ that it wasn't that easy, didn't you? sound like why easily found out J: Yeah, because you can't paint just one little symbol, say, on everyone's cheek ... Everyone has to be painted from head to ____ and they have to have a design on them that's _____ by the Guinness organization. toe approved H: So how are you going to organize this? J: Well, we've got another couple of months to ___ _____ ... Lots of parents and local businesses have said they're going to _____ time, supplies or money — whichever they can. H: That's _____. One last question, boys ... Why is it important for you to _____ this record? get ready donate wonderful attempt L: Well, I just think it'd be great fun and I think it'd also be great for the school, you know, to _____ a bit of school _____ and bring people in the local community together. create spirit J: Yeah, and _____ _____ that, I think it'll be really _____ when we're old to be able to show our grandkids what we did! H: Well, good luck and please let us know _____ you go. J/L: (together) We will. apart from cool how Listen to the text. FINDING OUT ANSWERS TO A QUIZ Edwin (E) and Cecilia (C) have found the answers to the quiz. Listen to them talking about what they found out. E: Cecilia, what's the _____ river? C: The Nile in North and East Africa. It's 6,695 kilometres long. E: So, it's not the Yangtze. C: No ... ...
