Straightforward - Advanced - Student's Book - CD-vel [antikvár]

lA A fresh start Speaking 1 Work in groups. Look at the photos and share your knowledge of South Africa. Use the ideas in the box to help you. cities history things to see and do sports climate languages 2 Work in pairs (A and B) with a student from another group. You are going to ask and answer questions about South Africa. A: Turn to page 138. B: Turn to page 155. 3 Ask each other your questions. Reading 1 Read the texts A-C and answer the questions. 1 What type of change does each text illustrate? 2 In what type of publication might you expect to find each text? Give reasons for your opinions. 2 Read the texts again and answer the questions. Text A 1 Why do Britons travel to South Africa for cosmetic surgery? What are clients told before they undergo surgery? Why did Angle decide to emigrate to South Africa? How did her friends react to her decision? Why? Why, according to the text, was there an increase in crime in 1990s South Africa? What was the significance of Nelson Mandela's gesture? Text B 1 Text C 1 I WHAT BETTER WAY to satisfy the yearning for beauty and travel than fly to the opposite end of the planet for plastic surgery, followed by recuperation in the privacy of a South African game park? Three years after setting up her company, Surgeon and Safari, Lorraine Melville is taking clients from all over the world, notably Britain. The appeals are obvious. Britons who spend L200 million on cosmetic surgery each year have woken up to the fact that operations in Johannesburg or Cape Town can be a third of the price at home. A full face-lift, fourteen nights at Johannesburg's swanky Westcliff hotel and a chauffeur comes to less than L6,000. Potential clients are sent a medical questionnaire and interviewed about their motivation. Those who expect the operation to transform their lives, find a partner, become happy, are advised it will not. From the airport they are shuttled to their hotel and often operated on the next day, giving a week or two for bruises to fade before returning home to a (hoped for) shower of compliments on how well they look after their holiday. f I \ here liad been more clinn a few raised eyebrows I wlieii she'd announced her decision to go. The -A- congratulations had lacked spontaneity, the smiles were forced. And if her friends' reactions had caused her on occasion to question the wisdom of wliat she was doing, she had been detennined not to show it. Anyway, it was too late now - the house had been sold, the money divided up with her ex-husband, the leaving party held and the promises made to keep in touch. South Africa was such a long way, they'd all concurred. Siie had no roots there, no friends, no contacts. Would she be safe on her own? But Angie needed to break with the past, with the painful memories of a failed marriage, and start a new life abroad. Europe was ruled out - she 15 spoke no languages - and America was too expen.-^ive. The Cape coast had it all: the weather, the lifestyle, the food. And there were plenty of Brits to make her feel at home.