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Task 1

|You are going to watch a video about the weather in the Tirol. According to what you hear, decide whether the statements below are TRUE or FALSE. |

|Write T for TRUE, F for FALSE in the corresponding box on the right-hand side. Question 0 has been answered as an example. You will watch the video |

|twice. |

|(Marking: 10 x 1 = 10points) |

|THE WEATHER IN THE TIROL |

| |T |

|1 Weather variations influence the number | |X |

|of people that come to the area. | | |

|2 All the visitors need are shorts, | |X |

|walking sticks and plenty of water. | | |

|3 The cable car is mostly used in spring. | |X |

|4 The mentioned mountain range stretches |X | |

|from Slovenia to France. | | |

|5 Between Christmas and Easter, lots of |X | |

|families come here to ski. | | |

|6 There is a special discount for | |

|families. | |

|7 In January, night temperatures can drop |X | |

|to -12ºC. | | |

|8 It never snows before December and after| |X |

|March. | | |

|9 The sun is hardly ever seen here. | |X |

|10 There is a bus that takes people to the top of the mountain. |

|LONDON UNDERGROUND |

| |The title of the book they are presenting is “Underground London: Travels (0) |beneath the City Streets | |( |

| |_________” | | | |

| |Stephen Smith’s first impression of the London Underground was very negative, he found |UNBEARABLE | | |

| |commuting to work almost (1) _________ | | | |

| |In his investigations he accompanied the maintenance workers at (2) _________ |NIGHT | | |

| |One of the most popular stories about the London Underground is that the old station of |(SAID TO BE) HAUNTED | | |

| |British Museum is (3) _________ by a mummy. | | | |

| |In the past, some newspapers offered (4) _________ to anyone who was able to spend the |A REWARD / REWARDS | | |

| |night on a platform. | | | |

| |Among the debris or rubbish they collect from the tube, the most common one is (5) |HUMAN HAIR AND SKIN | | |

| |_________ | | | |

| |He found many wallets and purses in the tunnels because (6) _________ throw them away |PICKPOCKETS | | |

| |after robbing people. | | | |

| |Many of London’s Underground delights have now been closed because the authorities |TERRORIST ATTACKS | | |

| |believe that they could be easy targets for (7) _________ | | | |

| |However, one of the sites that can still be visited are the bunkers where Britain’s (8) |WARTIME DEFENCE | | |

| |_________ was organised. | | | |

| |Stephen Smith quotes Ford Maddox Ford when he says that “England is a small island but |ILLIMITABLE | | |

| |London is (9)_________ “, there is no limit to London. | | | |

| |He believes that the greatest (10) _________ in London is the Government’s secret |(UNDERGROUND) MYSTERY | | |

| |underground tunnels. | | | |

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