Exercise 3
Listen and check you answers for Exercise 2 and now we're going to take a look at extreme sports. What exactly are they? How dangerous are they? What makes people risk their lives to do them? Michelle is going to tell us all about them.

Speed,excitement, danger. You can find all these in the various extreme sports that have become popular in the last ten years or so. Take bungee jumping.You jump off a bridge, like this one I'm standing on now, and you fall and fall,and then, just before you hit the ground or water, a rope pulls you back. Other extreme sports appear just as crazy. Look at this. In sky surfing you jump out of an aeroplane and use a board to 'surf' the air, doing gymnastics in mid-air! Amazxing. And extreme sports on landcan be just as dangerous. Winter sports have always had an element of danger. The new winter sports are even more dangerous. For example snowboarding, which has all the excitement of surfing but on snow,is more dangerous even than skiing. Probably the most dangerous of all the new winter sports is snowrafting. You sit in a rubber boat and sail down a mountain at great speed and you can't control the boat!