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

PARAGRAPH ONE:

1.	appealed	a.	smelling mess
2.	hot enough	b.	with messy results
3.	temperatures	c.	attempts
4.	100-year	d.	to visitors
5.	many people experimented,	e.	to fry an egg
6.	bad-	f.	side up
7.	unsuccessful	g.	anniversary
8.	sunny-	h.	nearing 50°C

PARAGRAPH TWO:

1.	The park told people	a.	hot it can get
2.	demonstrate how	b.	crew
3.	tin	c.	in the garbage
4.	maintenance	d.	in the air
5.	across the parking	e.	foil
6.	put trash	f.	via Facebook
7.	recycle	g.	lot
8.	throw a chicken	h.	bins

LISTEN AND FILL IN THE GAPS

The Death Valley National Park (1) ___________________ to stop trying to fry eggs on rocks or the ground. The park (2) ___________________ trying to see if it is hot (3) ___________________, after a park employee posted a video on YouTube of (4) ___________________. The video, temperatures nearing 50°C, and the (5) ___________________ on Wednesday of the hottest place ever recorded, meant many people experimented, with messy results. Park cleaners are now busy cleaning egg shells, egg cartons, and the bad-smelling mess from (6) ___________________ a sunny-side up under the sun.

The park told (7) ___________________ to fry eggs. They said: "[The] posting of frying an egg in a pan in Death Valley (8) ___________________ hot it can get…, with (9) ___________________ if you do this, use a pan or tin foil and properly throw away the contents. However, the…maintenance crew has been busy cleaning up…(10) ___________________ [thrown] across the parking lot." It asked people to put trash in (11) ___________________ bins. Someone on YouTube joked that Saudi Arabia was so hot, "you can throw a chicken in the air and (12) ___________________".

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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