Exercise 4. Pre-reading task. Match the highlighted words with their definitions below.
First text
1 of little importance _________________
2 crazy _________________
3 a person who looks after animals (e.g. in a zoo) _________________
4 animals like large monkeys _________________
5 not looked after well _________________
Second text
6 the London underground _________________
7 vary tasty _________________
8 asked for (in writing) _________________
9 burning brightly _________________
10 very small _________________
Exercise 5. Read this text. What do you think the people’s jobs are?
Holidays can be good for your health. You lie on a beach and relax, and tensions disappear. But sometimes a holiday can change your life completely, which was what happened two years ago to Victoria Smith and sally Gook.
Victoria Smith, six years ago, was working as a manager at Next, a British chain store. Then she went on holiday to Borneo…
“It was a working holiday”, said Victoria, ‘where you could study orangutans in the wild – I have always been interested in apes, so I thought it would be fun. The holiday was wonderful, and when Victoria came home she found it very difficult to return to her old life. ‘Suddenly the problems in the store just seemed so trivial. ’ Although everybody told her she was mad, she decided to go back to university and study biology. For years later she became a chimpanzee keeper.
For the last two years Victoria has been working at Monkey World, a centre in south-west England which looks after apes which have been ill-treated. Many have been rescued from laboratories and circuses all over the world, she works long hours, and the pay isn’t very good but she loves it. ‘Apes are good family, each with their own personality.’
I’m really happy now. Since I started working here I feel that I’ve been doing something important, not just wasting my life.
Sally Gook wakes up every morning to a deep blue sky and blazing sun. For the last two years she has been living on the tiny Greek island of Lipsi, which is only 16 square kilometers in size and has a population of just 650.
But until a few years ago she lived in London. ‘I was working for American Express and I had a good social life and earned a lot of money. But I had to get up very early every morning, often in horrible weather, and get a train and the tube to work.
Then one day she and a friend decided they needed a relaxing holiday, and they came to Lipsi. ‘I loved it-people, the mountains, the sun, and the delicious food. Suddenly I knew there was a different life waiting for me here.’ A few months later she applied for a job at the travel company which had organized her holiday.
Since then she has been living on Lipsi and working as a tourist guide. Her boyfriend, who is Greek, is a farmer. Sally said, ‘I’ve only been back to London once, and I can’t imagine ever living again.
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