MODULE 5
Gap year
5D
Reading and listening
MATURA: środki językowe P
1 Before you read the text, discuss the following
7 W zdaniach 1 4 wybierz wyraz, który poprawnie
questions.
uzupełnia luki w obydwu zdaniach. Zakreśl
1 Do you know what a gap year is?
literę: A, B lub C.
2 Is a gap year popular among students in Poland?
1 I decided to a gap year before going
to university.
3 What do you think students do when they take
In my free time I usually photos.
a gap year?
A make B find C take
4 Imagine you want to take a gap year. What would
you do?
2 A gapper is a person that takes a year
between school and university.
2 Charlotte Hindle is a travel writer and photographer.
In some London underground stations you can
She has written The Gap Year Book. Read the text
see the sign  Mind the  .
on page 69 and match each paragraph (A E) to
A pause B gap C step
the questions (1 4).
3 There is a / an in gappers each year.
In which paragraph does the author
The number of students travelling abroad
1 tell us a bit about her own travel experience?
is on the .
2 give some advice to someone taking a gap year?
A increase B height C list
3 tell us something new about a gap year?
4 As we have children, we do most of our
4 tell us about someone who did two different
travelling Europe.
things during his / her gap year?
Our hotel is walking distance.
A within B in C around
3 Choose the two activities mentioned in the
interview that you would most like to do, and the
two that you would least like to do. P
MATURA: prawda/fałsz
4 Compare your choices with a partner s. Explain
8 CD1/24 Posłuchaj nagrania. Zakreśl, które
why you made your choices.
zdania są zgodne z treścią nagrania (True),
a które nie (False).
5 Do you think the idea of the gap year is a good
1 Cindy and Felix knew what they wanted
one? What advantages or disadvantages does
to study before their gap year. T F
it have?
2 Cindy spent her gap year in Europe. T F
Vocabulary 3 They both built something. T F
4 Felix didn t make any money. T F
6 Complete the sentences with suitable words. The
5 Cindy learnt a language during
number of dashes corresponds to the number of
the gap year. T F
letters in the missing word.
1 There are more and more g _ _ _ _ _ _ taking
a gap year.
Speaking
2 My friend spent a year travelling
9 Work in groups. Tell each other about your ideal
o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in Africa.
gap year.
3 Sometimes you do not need any e _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ to get an interesting job.
4 Anyone travelling abroad should do
a s _ _ _ _ _ course.
5 If you are lucky, your parents or your grandparents
may pay for your travel e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
6 Many young people v _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to help
on aid projects in Africa or some other country.
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Work
A What's 'new' in gap years?
There are three sections to the book  Part I is all
about planning your gap year, Part II looks at the
regions of the world that the gapper* might travel to.
5 Part III mentions all the activities that gappers can
do. There was an increase in gappers taking their gap
year between school and university. When Charlotte
Hindle did research for the last edition of the book,
there were many more going after higher education.
10 This edition of The Gap Year Book gives information
about a paragliding school in the French Alps, travel
photography courses in Greece and Zanzibar. It
suggests an option to teach drama in Ghana, and
a number of placements to teach soccer, rugby,
15 tennis, basketball or boxing to children from very
poor families in Costa Rica, Ghana or South Africa.
B Unusual gap year ideas
You can, for example, sign up with a company as
a yacht deliverer. So if you want to go around the
20 world, then this is a good way to begin. Charlotte
most likely wants to train to be a photographer on
a cruise ship. You don t need any experience, they pay
all your expenses, you get to travel the world, and you
Name: Charlotte Hindle
learn everything about taking photos on board.
Age: 41
Occupation: Freelance travel
25 C Hindle's experiences
writer and photographer
She spent her gap year
The Northern Lights
travelling overland
D People's unusual gap year
to Australia, where
45 One of the gappers Charlotte spoke to travelled
she stayed for four
abroad for half of his gap year and then spent the
30 years. But now she
other half in the UK doing work experience in the
has children and they
Houses of Parliament. He wanted to study politics
travel together only
at university and thought he could learn a lot by
within Europe. So this
50 working with politicians first.
year they've visited
35 Iceland, Finland and
E Advice for gappers
the Faroe Islands.
If you think about taking a gap year, do a safety
The most memorable
course in the UK before going away.
moment was seeing
the Northern Lights
gapper a person who stops studying for a year between
40 from a ship off the
school and university to do a particular activity
coast of Norway
when they were in the
Arctic Circle.
Ayers Rock / Uluru
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Culture