Hi everyone!
I guess many of you have woken up to the news of the incredible feat of these two climbers to have made it to the top of El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite.
Having seen El Capitan featured here, in a previous post about Yosemite Park, it seemed only like a natural continuation to have a little activity about this incredible sporting success.
This is a gap filling activity with two kinds of gaps, which you can complete all at once or in two rounds. The first kind is vocabulary, while the second kind (in bold) is for examples of ellipsis and reference (ways of avoiding repetition in discourse).
Even though I include the key for you to check, I'd like you to tell us in the comments what those words in the gaps refer to. For example:
- Everybody was writing comments on the blog, but inexplicably, I wasn't. (there's an ellipsis here, and it refers to "writing comments".)
- There's a previous post about Yosemite, so I may check that out after this video. (we avoid repetition by using the pronoun "that", which refers to "a previous post about Yosemite".)
I'm aware that many of you may have seen the video already, but it really is the most beautiful one around. I had to pause it and just admire the view. Where would you pause the video?
Enjoy!
I guess many of you have woken up to the news of the incredible feat of these two climbers to have made it to the top of El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite.
Having seen El Capitan featured here, in a previous post about Yosemite Park, it seemed only like a natural continuation to have a little activity about this incredible sporting success.
This is a gap filling activity with two kinds of gaps, which you can complete all at once or in two rounds. The first kind is vocabulary, while the second kind (in bold) is for examples of ellipsis and reference (ways of avoiding repetition in discourse).
Even though I include the key for you to check, I'd like you to tell us in the comments what those words in the gaps refer to. For example:
- Everybody was writing comments on the blog, but inexplicably, I wasn't. (there's an ellipsis here, and it refers to "writing comments".)
- There's a previous post about Yosemite, so I may check that out after this video. (we avoid repetition by using the pronoun "that", which refers to "a previous post about Yosemite".)
I'm aware that many of you may have seen the video already, but it really is the most beautiful one around. I had to pause it and just admire the view. Where would you pause the video?
Enjoy!
Tommy starts by describing his father, a bodybuilder, as a __________ character.
When he was a child, his father would put a harness on him, tighten him into a rope around him and ________ a rock outside their house.
_________ he was 14, he started to realise there were climbs he could do that his father ________ .
His ___________ is to climb the Dawn Wall in Yosemite Valley.
About five of the hardest wall free-climbs have been Tommy’s ________ , and Dawn Wall is ________ harder than the hardest of __________.
In North America, there is no granite wall that is as blank and _______________ as Dawn Wall.
Tommy wrote about a day when his fingertips were cracked and bleeding, he made ____________ despite great conditions, and yet he couldn’t wait to be back up on the wall.
Tommy really ___________ to his father, who taught him about this _____________ way to live.
He says that we have these ____________ ideas of where our boundaries are, and that maybe _________ are completely wrong.
The Dawn Wall from Facebook Stories on Vimeo.
What can I say? I love it. El Capitan is mythical for climbers worldwide, awe-inspiring for we, tiny beings in front of its gigantic walls. A very beautiful activity.
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