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No frying eggs in Death Valley, says park (13th July, 2013)

PARAGRAPH ONE:

1.	see if it is hot	a.	ever recorded
2.	100-year	b.	shells
3.	the hottest place	c.	from eggs
4.	egg	d.	enough to fry eggs
5.	the smelly mess	e.	up
6.	sunny-side	f.	anniversary

PARAGRAPH TWO:

1.	the video of frying	a.	it could get
2.	show how hot	b.	and shells
3.	tin	c.	lot
4.	throw away the contents	d.	an egg in a pan
5.	egg cartons	e.	foil
6.	parking	f.	in the garbage

LISTEN AND FILL IN THE GAPS

The Death Valley National Park (1) ___________________ to stop frying eggs on rocks. Many people (2) ___________________ if it is hot enough to fry eggs after they saw a park (3) ___________________ on YouTube. That video, 50°C heat, and the (4) ___________________ of the hottest place ever recorded, (5) ___________________ tried frying eggs in the park. Park cleaners are now busy cleaning up egg shells, egg cartons, and the smelly mess from eggs that (6) ___________________ .

The park told people via Facebook (7) ___________________ frying an egg in a pan in Death Valley was to (8) ___________________ get. It said people should use a pan, (9) ___________________ throw away the contents in the garbage or recycle bins. Maintenance (10) ___________________ cleaning up egg cartons and shells thrown (11) ___________________. Someone on YouTube joked that Saudi Arabia was so hot, "you can throw a chicken in the air (12) ___________________ cooked".

FRIED EGGS SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about fried eggs in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

	STUDENT 1 _____________	STUDENT 2 _____________	STUDENT 3 _____________
Q.1.
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.

• Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.

• Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

WRITE QUESTIONS & ASK YOUR PARTNER(S)

Student A: Do not show these to your speaking partner(s).

a)	________________________________________________________
b)	________________________________________________________
c)	________________________________________________________
d)	________________________________________________________
e)	________________________________________________________
f)	________________________________________________________
g)	________________________________________________________
h)	________________________________________________________

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Student B: Do not show these to your speaking partner(s).

a)	________________________________________________________
b)	________________________________________________________
c)	________________________________________________________
d)	________________________________________________________
e)	________________________________________________________
f)	________________________________________________________
g)	________________________________________________________
h)	________________________________________________________

FREE WRITING

Write about fried eggs for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner's paper.

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