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Recording 80, page 109
Exercise 5c Listen and check.

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The highest British mountain is Ben Nevis. It’s in Scotland. It’s 1,343 m high.
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The highest American mountain is Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley). It’s in Alaska. It’s 6,194 m high.
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Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It’s 8,848 m. It’s in Nepal-Tibet.
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New Zealand’s highest mountain is Mt. Cook. It’s 3,764 m high.
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The highest Australian mountain is Mt. Kosciusko. It’s 2,230 m.
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Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in Europe. It’s in France. It’s 4,807 m high.
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Mt. Logan is Canada’s highest mountain. It’s 6,050 m.
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Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. It’s in Tanzania. It’s 5,895 m high.
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Etna is the highest volcano in Europe. It’s in Sicily, Italy. It’s 3,323 m high.
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Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece. It’s 2,917 m. In Greek mythology, it was the place where the gods lived.
Recording 81, page 109
Exercise 6 Facts and figures about the Panama Canal. Listen to the recording, and complete the sentences with the correct numbers. There are two numbers too many.

… and the next part of this talk is on the Panama Canal. It’s amazing how this one small section of a small country can be so important to the world.
Let’s learn a little bit about the canal itself, before we look at how it connects to everything else.
The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in the Central American country of Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
It is only 82 kilometres long. If you go around South America by ship then you need to travel another 15,000 kilometres.
So the canal saves a lot of travel time. It takes around 8 to 10 hours to cross the canal.
The French started building the canal in 1881, but they couldn’t finish it.
The project was started again in 1904 by the United States and the canal was finally finished in 1914.
Many people died while they were building the canal, some say up to 25,000.
For the rest of the 20th century, the United States controlled the canal, but gave control back to Panama in 2000.

Every year, around 40,000 ships come through the canal. These are mostly commercial ships.
They transport goods for trade between Asia and America, or Europe.
In 2016 the government of Panama made the canal bigger, so that now 99 per cent of ships can pass through it.
Recording 82, page 109
Exercise 7a How tall are they? Listen and write the height under each person.

Dialogue 1:

Lisa



Wow! Who’s that guy at the front?
Jenny
Who do you mean?
Lisa
The tall guy in a red shirt, standing at the bar.
Jenny
Oh, that’s Luka.
Lisa
He’s good-looking. And very tall. He could make the NBA.
Jenny
Well, he is in the NBA, in fact.
Lisa
Are you serious?
Jenny
I’m totally serious. He plays for the Dallas Mavericks. He’s 2.01 metres tall.
Dialogue 2:

Reporter


Ariana, is it true that you don’t like talking about your height?
Ariana
No, I don’t mind it. I know I’m short, and I feel OK about it.
Reporter
Do you feel awkward standing beside and talking to a tall person?
Ariana
No, not at all. But if a person is really tall, I like to joke and use fun ice breaker questions, like “What’s the weather like up there?”.
Reporter
Ha-ha. So, how tall are you actually?
Ariana
1.53 metres.
Dialogue 3:

Olivia


How many girls are there? Count them.
Jessica
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
Olivia
So there are. Six on our side and five on your side.
Jessica
That’s not right.
Olivia
Yes, it is! Ugbad is on your side. She’s very tall. She’s 1.80 metres. She’s like two players.
Dialogue 4:

Frank


Right. Who’s next, please?
Timothée
It’s me. Hi.
Frank
Hi. What’s your name, please?
Timothée
Timothée
Frank
OK. As you know, in this casting audition, you need to have a height and weight check.
Timothée
Yeah, OK.
Frank
Would you please step over here, like this. I’m going to measure your height first.
Timothée
OK.
Frank
Let me see…
Timothée
How tall am I?
Frank
You’re 1.78 metres, Timothée. A good height for an actor.
Dialogue 5:

Reporter


Billie, once you said that “success has nothing to do with height, success comes from the heart”. Why did you say that?
Billie
Well, you know, back at school, my schoolmates constantly teased me because I was short. I didn’t really understand why. I just laughed, and went along with the jokes. My answer was: ‘Good things come in small packages’ or ‘They don’t make diamonds the size of bricks’.
Reporter
That’s so true. And how tall are you, if you don’t mind?
Billie
1.61 metres. And you see, being short has at least one big advantage – I can wear very high heels.
 

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