Adventure
Questions
1. Do you like adventure?
2. Do you think your idea of adventure is the same as your parents’ ideas and your grandparents’ ideas?
3. What was your most unforgettable childhood adventure?
4. Who would you like to have a big adventure with?
5. Does there have to be an element of danger in an adventure?
6. Why do people take risks for the sake of adventure?
7. Do you like adventure movies?
8. Are men or women more adventurous?
9. What adventures would you like to go on in the future?
Videos
Australia: An entire continent so infested with deadly creepy crawlies and creatures of all kinds, it seems like it’s actively trying to kill you. But is the natural world really any more dangerous down under than anywhere else?
Hosted by: Stefan Chine
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Hosted by: Stefan Chine
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Category: Geography & Travel | Nature & Environment
During the Victorian Age, women were unlikely to become great explorers, but a few intelligent, gritty and brave women made major contributions to the study of previously little-understood territory. Courtney Stephens
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examines three women — Marianne North, Mary Kingsley and Alexandra David-Néel — who wouldn’t take no for an answer (and shows why we should be grateful that they didn’t).
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Category: Geography & Travel
By the early 1900’s, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations left: the North and South Poles. After two Americans staked claim to reaching the North Pole, a Norwegian explorer
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and a British naval officer each set out for the last unmapped region in what newspapers called a “Race to the Pole.” Elizabeth Leane sets the scene for their journeys south.
Lesson by Elizabeth Leane, directed by WOW-HOW Studio.
Lesson by Elizabeth Leane, directed by WOW-HOW Studio.
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Category: Geography & Travel