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BBC Learning English
Video Words in the News
26 June 2013
Tightrope1 walker
Transcript2:
450 metres above a gorge3 near the Grand Canyon4.
With no safety harness, American acrobat5 Nik Wallenda walks the tightrope.Wind made the cable sway during the 22 nail-biting minutes it took him to cross.
But towards the end he felt confident enough to kneel and blow a kiss to fans waiting on the other side.
Vocabulary:
gorge
a deep, narrow valley
safety harness
a system of belts to hold a person and stop them falling
walks the tightrope
walks along a 'tightrope': a rope or wire fixed6 high above the ground.
(this phrase also appears as the idiom 'to walk a tightrope', which means to deal
with a difficult situation where a small mistake could have bad results)
nail-biting
tense
blow a kiss
kiss your hand and blow it in the direction of someone
Exercise:
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
gorge / safety harness / walks the tightrope / nail-biting / blow a kiss
1. The _________ was steep and dangerous with a river flowing through it.
2. One of the athletes who did rise to the occasion was Lachie Stewart. In a _________ race Stewart swept aside the clear favourite, Australian Ron Clarke, to take a stunning7 gold in the 10,000 metres.
3. "I love you Whitney," he said while __________ towards the sky.
4. Spider-Man double Christopher Tierney, who fell 30 feet on Monday, is due out of hospital this weekend.Despite wearing a ___________, video of the incident showed him falling from a ledge8 into a stage pit.
5. This summer, Wallenda is set to become the first person in more than a century to ___________ over Niagara Falls, after being granted rare permission.
Answers:
1. The gorge was steep and dangerous with a river flowing through it.
2. One of the athletes who did rise to the occasion was Lachie Stewart. In a nail-biting race Stewart swept aside the clear favourite, Australian Ron Clarke, to take a stunning gold in the 10,000 metres.
3. "I love you Whitney," he said while blowing a kiss towards the sky.
4. Spider-Man double Christopher Tierney, who fell 30 feet on Monday, is due out of hospital this weekend.Despite wearing a safety harness, video of the incident showed him falling from a ledge into a stage pit.
5. This summer, Wallenda is set to become the first person in more than a century to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls, after being granted rare permission.
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