[3A3] e) Water Sports Adeventure

Dive into wakeboarding & kiteboarding! Explore the thrills and tech behind these water sports.

In your exercise book, please write e) Water Sports Adventure. A young man wakeboarding. Wakeboarding and kiteboarding are sports that take place on the surface of the water. In kiteboarding a kite, which is powered by the wind, moves the board and the rider across the water, whereas in wakeboarding a boat is used to drag the board and rider behind it. In the 1990s Cory Roeseler developed a single board for these sports, which had previously used skis. Speeds of up to nearly 100 km per hour can be achieved by experienced participants. In the summer o f 2010, Louis Trapper set a world kiteboarding record by travelling 2000 km over 23 days. In your exercise book, please copy the following exercise. (page 80) A) Watch the video and circle the words you hear.1. To most people, the cold wind would feel uncomfortable / comfortable.2. Roeseler says that the power of the wind / waves in a kite can be like a bird moving its wings.3. Wind power is something that is easily found in the gorge which divides / connects Washington and Oregon.4. In recent years, more and more people have started using towers for kiteboarding / wakeboarding.5. Roeseler's tower is 17 / 70 feet off the water.6. It has got to go on a small / big wakeboard boat and get tested in the right environment. Now, watch the video and circle the correct words. 1. To most people, the cold wind would feel uncomfortable / comfortable. uncomfortable comfortable 2. Roeseler says that the power of the wind / waves in a kite can be like a bird moving its wings. wind waves 3. Wind power is something that is easily found in the gorge which divides / connects Washington and Oregon. divides connects 4. In recent years, more and more people have started using towers for kiteboarding / wakeboarding. kiteboarding wakeboarding 5. Roeseler's tower is 17 / 70 feet off the water. 17 70 6. It has got to go on a small / big wakeboard boat and get tested in the right environment. small big In your exercise book, please copy the following exercise. B) Complete the summary of the video below using these words.behind fly higher invent kite launched power thanCory Roeseler is a mechanical engineer who likes to (1)_ things. He came up with the idea of kiteboarding in the 1990s. He used a(n) (2)_ to catch the power of the wind and to allow the board to launch off the water for a few seconds and (3)_. When Roeseler was a teenager, he was the first person to try kite-skiing. He didn't water-ski (4)_ a boat like other people, he decided to use wind (5) _ to ski below a kite. More recently, Roeseler invented a new kind of wakeboarding boat that has a sail on the back. Roeseler's boat also has a tower which is six feet higher (6) _ other wakeboarding boat towers, so the wakeboarding rope is placed (7 ) _. This allows the wakeboarder to jump higher in the air. Roeseler's friend, Jeff, was a bit worried before testing the new equipment because he hadn't seen anything like it before. He needn't have worried; as the boat went faster he started moving quickly across the water and then ( 8 ) _ high into the air. Please choose the correct answers. Cory Roeseler is a mechanical engineer who likes to invent things. He came up with the idea of kiteboarding in the 1990s. He used a(n) kite to catch the power of the wind and to allow the board to launch off the water for a few seconds and fly. When Roeseler was a teenager, he was the first person to try kite-skiing. He didn't water-ski behind a boat like other people, he decided to use wind power to ski below a kite. More recently, Roeseler invented a new kind of wakeboarding boat that has a sail on the back. Roeseler's boat also has a tower which is six feet higher than other wakeboarding boat towers, so the wakeboarding rope is placed higher. This allows the wakeboarder to jump higher in the air. Roeseler's friend, Jeff, was a bit worried before testing the new equipment because he hadn't seen anything like it before. He needn't have worried; as the boat went faster he started moving quickly across the water and then launched high into the air. Would like to try kiteboarding or wakeboarding? Why?/ Why not? What have you learned today? Do you have any comment on today's lesson?