Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 5 - The real Indiana Jones for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Use your notes from Exercise 2 to discuss 1-5. Then watch again to check.

Answer

  1. Politics: democratic, outsider, trafficking Environment and climate: scorpion, sleet, slippery Infrastructure: FAA standards, flames, services Preparation: data set, geological map, research 
  2. To reassure local governments that you’re not there to take the glory from their national cultures. Also makes it easier to get permits, etc.
  3. In case you injure yourself in a remote area and need to be airlifted to hospital.
  4. As an example of how poor the local infrastructure can be. 
  5. Because you’ll waste your time by not understanding the terrain, the culture, the local context, etc. This will all make your work harder.