Vocabulary: idioms (taking risks)

Ex.71 Listen to the recordings to find out if your guesses were correct (track 10;11)
Ex.72 Listening
1 1.36 Listen and match the three bad luck stories 1-3 to the headlines a-c.
a Mum left out in the cold
b Mum pays for expensive joke
с Man loses job after mountain top adventure

2 1.36 Listen again and answer these questions.

Story 1

1. 
   How long was the man stuck on the mountain?
   
2. 
   How did he survive?
   
3. 
   Who found him?
   

Story 2
1 How long did the woman have to wait on the balcony?
2 Why did the woman go out on to the balcony?
3 How old was the little boy?


Story 3

1. 
   How much will the mother have to pay?
   
2. 
   How did the egg get on the roof of the car?
   
3. 
   How long did the egg stay there before it was discovered?
   

EX.73 Complete the story with phrases from the box.

knocked her over jumped out of swerve off fell into ploughed into

A lucky break?

Klara Bunnenberg is twenty-eight years old and lucky to be alive. She has been in and out of hospital a number of times since her first accident at the age of twenty-four. On this occasion, she was cycling down a narrow country lane when she had to (1)…...the road to avoid an oncoming car. Klara (2)…..a tree, broke her right arm and lost three teeth.

Two years later, whilst working as a summer camp supervisor, she was climbing in a tree on the bank of a river with the children she was looking after. She (3)…….the tree, planning to land on the bank. Unfortunately, she missed the bank and (4)…….the back seat of a passing speedboat and broke her left leg. Her latest adventure also led to disaster. On her twenty-eighth birthday, her boyfriend gave her a pair of inline skates at a birthday party he was throwing for her. Desperate to try out her new skates, Klara put them on in front of her friends. She successfully made it to the bottom of the hill outside her house, but couldn't stop. She flew into the road and was hit by an oncoming vehicle. Luckily for Klara, it was an ambulance which (5)….. Unluckily, she broke her left arm and her right leg and was knocked unconscious. The ambulance driver took her straight to hospital - not a problem, as he was going there anyway.