A SLICE OF LIFE - GAPFILL

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

USE THESE WORDS

ARRIVES, BOOTS, CHOOSES, CLIMATE, DARK, DIVING, FASCINATING, FREE, OCTOBER, PARTY, RESEARCH, SCIENTIST, SKIDOOS, SUMMER, SUNNY, SURVEY, WEAR, WORLD
Nick Bowen is a . He works for the British Antarctic . He studies the and the stars. He lives at the Halley Station. The life of scientists is different from normal life a lot. They don’t go to shops to buy food but it comes by ship. It twice a year, in March and . They travel on or they ski. They’ve also got five planes that they use only in . In winter they can’t use them because it is all the time. Because it is always very cold they special clothes and big , and sunglasses when it is . In summer when it is a bit warmer they sometimes go swimming and .
They play a lot of games in their time, like cards, they sing, he plays the guitar and every Saturday they have a and a special meal. They can’t watch TV because there too far away from the rest of the . So they watch videos instead and every week someone a film.
He likes the Antarctic because it is a and beautiful place.