[00:07.50]PRE-READING
[00:11.15]Discuss the following questions with your parthen.
[00:22.80]1 Imagine you are travelling alone to the South Pole.
[00:36.57]What will you take with you?Why?
[00:42.74]2 Do you know the names of three countries that part of the North Pole?
[00:53.50]What about the South Pole?
[01:03.24]3 Which animals live on the North Pole?And which on the South Pole?
[01:13.12]4 Why do polar bears never eat penguins?
[01:27.46]READING
[01:30.38]Better listen to the tape before reading it on your own.
[01:37.65]Try to tell the main idea of the text before reading it a second time.
[01:55.10]ALONE IN ANTARCTICA
[02:00.87]At 50 I was the first woman to travel alone to the North Pole.
[02:07.53]But what should I do to celebrate my 60th birthday?
[02:13.09]What else,but a journey at the opposite end of the world,Antarctica.
[02:20.17]I began my almost 400-mile journey on November lst,1997.
[02:27.02]I walked and skied alone.
[02:30.99]My dog team were not with me to pull my sled.
[02:36.13]Another journey of challenge and danger was about to begin.
[02:42.19]The first days the weather was very good.
[02:47.16]The wind was icy but not very strong and there was bright sunshine 24 hours a day.
[02:56.72]But changes were just around the corner.
[03:01.47]On the third day I was struggling through stormy weather
[03:07.95]and during the next week the wind grew stronger
[03:14.01]and I found myself spending a whole day in my tent.
[03:19.94]I had travelled only two hours one day when the winds increased
[03:26.99]so much that I had to put my tent up before the winds became too strong.
[03:35.35]that threatened to blow me and my tent away,but none of that happened.
[03:47.92]On November 12th the storm died down.
[03:53.48]It was my birthday and I wanted to make that day special.
[03:59.86]I thawed a frozen cake over my fire,placed a candle on the top,
[04:07.72]lit it and sang"happy birthday to me"at the top of my voice.
[04:15.58]A few days later,I was moving forward over a slope that seemed safe
[04:23.31]when suddenly without warning my world dropped out from under my skis.
[04:31.15]I had fallen into a hole and was hanging on the ropes tied to the sled.
[04:38.70]A plece of ice fell down and I never heard it land.
[04:44.94]The bottom was a few hundred feet below.
[04:49.91]I used to practise self rescue many times in the mountains where I live
[04:56.57]and carefully began climbing out.
[05:01.11]It took a long time but I finally got out.
[05:07.49]I was thankful for all the training I had had.
[05:12.74]I was in good health and all of my equipment was working well.
[05:19.61]I was so optimistic that I decided that the next day,
[05:26.37]the 22nd day of the expedition,I would increase my workday to 12 hours.
[05:35.62]The next morning I had a bad accident with the sled and hurt my leg.
[05:43.67]I coukdn't stand on my left leg and my head was woozy from hitting the ground.
[05:52.00]But I knew that I had to get up.
[05:56.36]Lying on the ice,I would soon dle.
[06:01.51]I struggled to my knees knowing that somehow I had to put my tent up for shelter.
[06:10.57]On hands and knees I got the tent up and dragged my sleeping bag into the tent
[06:19.82]and lay down out of the cold wind.
[06:24.37]I had to make a decision.Wait to get better or give up?
[06:31.63]I had to think of my family,which is very important to me,
[06:38.11]and do the right thing.I did so without regret.
[06:44.17]I had met the challenges of solo travel in an extreme climate.
[06:50.62]It is an experience I shall never forget and shall value for the rest of my life.
[16:18.02]LANGUAGE STUDY
[16:22.99]Word study
[16:29.05]Use the two words not used in the 10 sentences on pages 32-33
[16:50.42]1.generous:He's not only generous with his money
[17:03.45]but also in helping whoever is in need.
[17:18.21]It was so generous of him to share with whoever is trouble not only his food
[17:27.28]but also that small income earned by working hard day in,day out.
[17:58.33]2.challenge:The job doesn't really challenge him
[18:13.38]That's why he is trying to find a new job.
[18:21.64]He often says that he likes his job to be a challenge.
[18:32.08]INTEGRATING SKILLS
[18:37.83]OPRAH WINFREY
[18:40.68]Oprah Winfrey is not just a very successful TV personality in the US,
[18:47.84]she is also a woman who has inspired millions.
[18:52.51]In her television shows she makes it possible to talk about great moments
[18:58.57]and difficulties in people's lives.
[19:02.70]She has helped thousands of men and women
[19:07.35]come to terms with things that bother them
[19:11.43]and that they could not talk about with others.
[19:15.87]Oprah's programme about literature,in which she reviews books,is very popular.
[19:23.44]When she praises a book,it will become a best-seller.
[19:28.77]Her life and her success are a good example for many women
[19:34.52]Oprah Winfrey is a black woman whose rise to fame is an inspiring story.
[19:41.07]She was born on January 29,1954 in a small village in America.
[19:49.12]Her parents were very poor.
[19:52.78]For her family,life seemed to hold no promise.
[19:58.05]Being black and a woman made life even more difficult in America at that time.
[20:05.32]But there was nothing that could stop Oprah.
[20:09.47]She was an extremely bright girl at school.
[20:13.73]She asked her kindergarten teacher to let her go to school sooner
[20:19.19]and she alsoi skipped the second grade of primary school.
[20:24.23]Her life from the age of six till about fourteen was very hard.
[20:30.79]It was a time in which many sad things happened to her.
[20:36.06]For many women such hardship would be too heavy to bear.
[20:41.63]But not for Oprah.When she was fourteen,Oprah went to live with her father.
[20:48.29]Her father showed her how hard work and discipling could lead to self-improvement.
[20:55.37]Oprah listened to her father,
[20:58.81]and a few years later she won a college scholarship
[21:03.67]that allowed her to go to university.
[21:07.54]In 1971,she began working part-time on a radio programme.
[21:14.07]Two years later,after graduation,she started working for television.
[21:20.52]For more than ten years she worked for different TV stations across the country.
[21:26.90]In 1984,she moved to Chicago,
[21:31.75]where she became the host of a talk show called"AM Chicago".
[21:37.82]When Oprah started,"AM Chicago"had few listeners.
[21:43.27]By September of the next year,
[21:47.11]the show was so successful that it was given a new name:"The Oprah Winfrey Show".
[21:53.88]Oprah's programme has so far been shown on TV for almost 20 years non stop.
[22:01.35]Her show is one of the most popular television programmes in history.
[22:07.41]She has won many prizes for her work in televsion and film.
[22:13.05]Oprah Winfrey's wonderful career inspires many people to believe that success
[22:20.00]and happiness in life are within reach for everyone.
[22:25.04]Her life shows us that hard work and discipline are the road to self-improvement,
[22:31.89]and success lies somewhere along that road |