سطح اول - آیلتس 5-4 (A2 - B1)
A man plan to swim around Britain. His name is Ross Edgley. The swim is around 2,700 kilometres long. It will take him 100 days.
During the swim, he cannot touch the ground. This is not normal for the human body. His tongue and throat can swell up. This is called ‘salt mouth’. When this happens, he cannot eat normal food. He must eat only smoothies and protein shakes.
One time, Ross goes for a swim. He swims non-stop for 48 hours. He gets a sickness called ‘trench foot’. The skin on his foot gets black because it is dead.
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Tongue: زبان
Throat: گلو
Swell up: متورم شدن
Sickness: بیماری
سطح دوم - آیلتس 6-5 (+B1+ - B2)
Extreme sportsman Ross Edgley is planning to swim around Britain, and he will not touch dry land once.
The swim will be around 2,700 kilometres long and will take him 100 days. He will burn around 1 million calories. Even a thing like eating will be a problem because his tongue and throat can swell up in all that salty water. This condition is called ‘salt mouth’. Ross will have to eat smoothies and protein shakes.
The human body is simply not meant to be in the sea for 100 days. When Ross went for a 48-hour, non-stop swim, he managed to get trench foot. That is a condition when the skin becomes black and dies off.
If all goes well, he will finish in London on the 8th of September.
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Condition: شرایط/ وضعیت
Meant to be/ do something: به منظور/ با هدف
سطح سوم - آیلتس 7+ ( C1 - C2)
Extreme sportsman Ross Edgley is planning to swim all the way around Britain’s coastline without touching dry land once.
People estimate that the 2,700-kilometre swim will take him 100 days and he will burn 1 million calories. That in itself will be no easy task because as he explained the human body is simply not meant to be in the water for 100 days.
For example, you can develop something called ‘salt mouth’ which is when your tongue and throat swell up because of salt water exposure. For that reason, Ross will have to eat foods which can be liquefied like fruits, smoothies or protein shakes.
When he recently went for a 48-hour, non-stop swim, he managed to get trench foot, which is a condition when the surface tissue blackens and dies off. If all goes well, he will end this swim in London on the 8th of September.
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Coastline: خط ساحلی
Estimate: ارزیابی کردن/ تخمین زدن
Exposure: در معرض بودن
Liquefy: به مایع تبدیل شدن
Tissue: بافت
