Page 12 - Complete IELTS 4_WB Demo (Cambridge)
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People's lives
Reading 1
Flow-chart completion
0 You are going to read about a traveller and
explorer called Patrick Malone. Look at the flow
chart. What type of information do you think you
need for each gap?
Patrick Malone
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• .: ·Patrick Malone (Part 1)
:'.·Patrick Malone is a traveller, writer and broadcaster. He
Moved to 1 ....................... when he was twelve. •�was born in 1968 in Basel, Switzerland, where his British ..,:·
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:•parents were working for a pharmaceutical company. His
�' family left Switzerland when he was twelve, and returned r
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:� to their home in Britain. For the next six years, Malone :
Studied 2 . ................ .... at university.
l' attended the local secondary school. He then went to Leeds ..
J. University to do a course in Human Geography. He wanted :;
} to become a town planner. However, the only work he could •
Got a job as a 3 ........ ............... . f find was as a teacher at a local school.
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J During his holidays and free time, he went walking, often .
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� covering very long distances very quickly. On one occasion
Once travelled more than 4 ..... ................... on foot on t he walked the entire length of Britain, a distance of over .
a single trip. ,, ..
i 1,400 kilometres, in less than a month. He enjoyed the
� experience and the challenge so much that he started
]· walking in different parts of the world, usually in fairly ,;
Often went walking in places that were quite { remote areas away from major population centres. The •"
5 ••····················•··. :, people he met and the experiences he had on these trips ,/
_ .. provided him with some excellent material for his classes. • ' '
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�" It was during one trip that he met his old university tutor, ?
Joined an 6 .. ..................... to the Amazon. � : Don Perkins. At the time, Perkins was putting together a \
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,' team of geographers and biologists for a research trip to
f} Use the words in the box to complete the flow '., the Amazon, and asked Malone if he would like to go with ••
chart above and then check your answers by :: , them. The expedition was for a whole year, and so he had
reading the passage. , .. to give up his job at the school, but Malone did not hesitate , �
.. Britain . . expedi\ion Human Geography : : to accept Perkins' offer. He sold his car to make some •· •
: 1,400 kilometres· • • remote teacher u • money, bought an airline ticket for Brazil and set off. •
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