Preparation
What unusual hobbies do you know?
Think of 5 reasons why people have such strange hobbies.
Look at these words and make up possible phrases:
1. treasure a) of a plastic box
2. post b) coordinates
3. location c) machine
4. GPS d) hunt
5. hide e) log book
6. search f) and seek
7. a little g) around
You are going to listen to a podcast about geocaching. Have you got any ideas what this is?
On-line
Listen and say which sentence is correct: 1. Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunt when someone hides a plastic box in a park and posts its coordinates on the website and then someone with GPS machine finds the treasure.
2. Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunt when cachers hide a plastic box with a little log book in it in any place, post its coordinates on the website for the others to find it with GPS device and sign in the log book.
3. Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunt when cachers hide a plastic box with a little log book in it in a town, post its coordinates on the website for the others to find it with GPS device.
Listen again and say if the sentences are True or False:
- People can plug in the coordinates into the GPS machine and go and find the treasure.
- www.geocaching.ru is the official website for geocachers.
- There are not so many geocachers throughout the world.
- Caches are often hidden in the places you wouldn't go to otherwise.
- The funniest thing is hunting for the cache.
- GPS machines show the exact location of the hidden box.
- The main thing that all cachers have in common is the log book
- Geocaching is quite international.
Off-line
Would you like to take part in a such game? Why?
Groupwork: think of your own unusual hobby.
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