Reading Field games 1 SPEAKING Look at the blog and the photos. What kind of ‘game do you think the people are playing? What do you think happens? 2 Read the blog post quickly and check your ideas from ‘exercise, Reading Strategy ‘Multiple-choice questions may test + factual information (detailed or general) * the writer’ opinion * the writers intention, You can sometimes (but not always) tell what a question is testing by reading the first part without the options (ad). 3. Read the Reading Strategy and the questions in exercise 4. ‘Then answer the following questions. 11 Which questions in exercise 4 ask about a the writer's intention? b the writer’ opinion? «factual information? 2. How did you decide on the answers to question 1? 3. Which question in exercise 4is about the whole blog post? 4 Read the blog post again. Choose the correct options (ad). 1 Totake part in geocaching you need ‘a amobile phone with GPS. ba mobile phone with GPS and a toy or gift. ¢ amobile phone, a toy or gift and a logbook d nothing —just yourself! 2 The activity of geocaching 2 began in the 19th century, but only became popular after 2000. bb was originally only popular in one region of England, but now has fans all ver the world. was called ‘letterboxing’ when it was first invented. 4 has similarities with a 1Sth-century game. 3. When you finda gift ina geocache, you a make a note ofthe gift on the website. b can borrow the gift, but have to return it € areallowed to take the gift if you replace it with something else d take a photo of the gift as proof that you have found it 4 The writer thinks that the most enjoyable kind of geocaching is when you have to find a public webcam. b you have tofind a series of geocaches. you have to find a geocache and then hide tin a diferent place. 4 you simply have to find one geocache. BED nit2 Leisuretime can understand a text about an outdoor game. 5 The writer believes the ‘Fumble after Dark’ event a is less fun than geocaching with a couple of friends, b would bea very enjayable event to attend, ¢ isonly suitable for adventurous people. d needs to attract more people. 6 The writer has written the blog mainly to ‘a suggest that people try geocaching. b explain the differences between letterboxing and geocaching. © publicise a geocaching event in Sweden, d warn the reader that geocaching is addictive. VOCABULARY Match the prepositions below with definitions 1-5. Underline them in paragraphs 1,2 and 3 of the biog Prepositions across allalong all over below beside by 1 lower than 2. at many points on something long 3 inmany parts ofa place __, 4 nextto__ 5 near at the side of ‘>> Vocabulary Builder Prepositions of place: page 122 ‘SPEAKING Work in pairs. Would you like to play this game? ‘Why? / Why not? Use the adjectives, verbs and phrases below to help you. Adjectives addictive boring difficult exciting exhausting healthy time-consuming Explaining preference 'dfindit.. sounds really I'd like to play it because Itappeals / doesn’t appeal to me because F'm (not) reallyinto... 'drather... Ican’tstand | don't mind..., but SPEAKING Share your opinions with the class.Dear Friends, Sorry | haven't blogged fora while. ve been abit busy lately. Youll fnd out why .. But ist of all have you ever heard of geocaching? It's a kind of reasure-hunting game that 5 uses a GPS device — usually your smartphone —to find smal containers called geocaches. These are hidden all over the world ~but usually people start with geocaches that are close to their home. The great thing about geocaching is tat it leads You to Some beautiful and amazing places that you probably +e it know about. | can definitely recommend it~ its heathy andj’ fun. Although | should watn you that i's aso seriously addictvel So how does it work, exactly? Well, the fis step i to goto the geocaching website or dovnload the geocaching app onto ss your phone. Then you choose a geocache and you star ooking People have been hiding geocaches for mae than ten year, so there are literally milions of them around the word. There are sure to be some near your home, wherever you lve (There are «geocaches across all seven continent, including Antarctica) 2o Some are very hard to find. They may be hidden beside a ive, pa tree or even below the ground Geocaching is quite anew game: it began around the year 2000. Hoviever similar games did exist inthe pas. For example, Bayt inthe middle of the 19th century a game called 'etterboxing BPD 5 became popular in the south of England. People who enjoyed y walking inthe countryside began to hide boxes al along FX the route. These boxes contained postcards addressed to themselves. When other walkers found a box, they collected the cards and posted them. This often took many weeks, because so the boxes were often hidden in remote places, not by the paths. In geocaching, the boxes don't contain postcards. They contain a logbook, where the person who find it can write their name and the date. (They also record the find on the website, As well as the logbook, geocaches often contain a toy or gift. You are ‘welcome to take this, provided you replace it with something 3s you have brought with you The basic game just involves finding a geocache and recording it online and in the laghook. However, there are lots of variations For example, there are mult-cache challenges, where each cache contains the co-ordinates forthe next cache, until you reach the final cache containing the logbook. There are aso traveling caches’, where each person who finds the cache then hides itn a different location and updates the information on the website, ‘And there are ‘webcam caches’. When you do these, you don't find a physical container or logbook; you finda public webcam —«s and then capture an image of yourself on the webcam as proof that you have been successful. ve tried all ofthese types, and personaly I've enjoyed the mult-cache challenges the most Geocaching isan activity you can do alone o, ike me, with a couple of friends. But there are also geocaching events where you can get together with hundreds of other fans of the game. For example, the ‘Fumble after Dark’ event is held every Novernber in Sweden and sounds like great fun, About a thousand geocachers get together fora day of talks and presentations about geocaching. And then they head outside into. ss the darkness for some night-time adventures! I've been enjoying my geocaching experiences so much that 'm seriously thinking ‘about going to Fumble after Dark’ next year. So why don't you get into geocaching too, and | might see you there! Bye for now!! Claudia Unit2 Leisure time CAI