Task 4. a) Listen again and complete the sentences with between one and three words.
1. Natalie started playing the drums when she was 5 . When she was ________ she was given her first drum kit.
2. Philip started learning Yiddish about _______ ago. He found it quite easy because he had studied __________ at school.
3. When Rachel got a job a kid’s camp she was surprised that she had no _______ herself.
4. Sean asked for a parachute jump for his ________ birthday. He went on a one-day course with ________________ other students and made his jump at the end of the day.
5. Yvette went to work in Indonesia about ________________- years ago. The job was challenging because she had to manage ______ as well as teach classes.
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b) Which learning experience do you think was the most interesting/difficult/exciting?
Task 5. a) Complete the phrases with the words in the box.
crash heart picking steep thrown
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1. That was one thing that I had to learn by heart
2. I was amazed how quickly I started picking it up.
3. An occasion where I had really thrown learning curve was ….
4. I was just steep into everything.
5. I took a one-day crash course in parachuting.
b) Match the phrases in bold in task 5 a with the definitions.
a) a short learning programme in which you study a subject very quickly- crash
b) to memorise something so you can do or say it without referring to anything written down- heart
c) made to deal with something difficult without being prepared for it. We also say “someone was steep in at the deep end”.
d) when you had to learn something really quickly to succeed- thrown
e) learning something without really trying -picking
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