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C Read the text again and complete the table below.
Official Guinness World Records

Record holder Country Record Measurement Date
1 hr, 53 min, 10 sec

Feliks Zemdegs
28 Sept 2013

most spoons balanced on the body
Vocabulary
D Look at the highlighted words in the text and
try to guess what they mean. Then match them
try to guess what they mean. Then match them
and
the

the
e
using
table
c
omplet
with the meanings 1-6 below. Read the NOTE and complete the table using the
words in the box.
1. deal with, manage:
NOTE
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2. in a way that is impressive:
• The pre ix dis- is used before adjectives, nouns and verbs
3. completely, totally: to give them the opposite meaning (e.g. agree — disagree).
4. sb who invents or makes sth: • The pre ix mis- is used before verbs, and means to do sth
5. to put sth into a position so that it wrongly or badly (e.g. read — misread).
doesn’t fall:
honest behave spell respect approve hear
6. to say that sth is true: understand like calculate obey place
E Discus s. dis- mis-
E Discuss.
• Which of these three world records dishonest misbehave
is the most impressive?
3 DUBIOUS TALENTS

Now complete the sentences below with the correct form
Some people are simply talented in of some of the words from the table below.
strange and unusual ways. One such 1. You have the word 'beautiful'. It
person is Dalibor Jablanović, a computer only has one 'l'.
engineer from Serbia. He set a record on
28 September 2013 when he managed to 2. My parents of me staying out
balance 31 metal spoons on his ears, nose, late. They want me to return home before 10 p.m.
forehead and cheeks, making it the most
spoons balanced on the face. 3. You have . The meeting is
In fact, Jablanović seems to have a weird tomorrow, not today.
talent for putting all kinds of things on his 4. My grandmother her glasses all
body. He has also held a few records for
sticking paper notes on his face — but these the time, and always asks me to look for them.
have since been broken by other people. On 5. We got into an argument because he didn't tell me the
26 June 2016, he broke the record for the truth. I hate it when people are .
most spoons balanced on the whole body,
beating the previous record holder, Etibar 6. I tomatoes. I think they're
Elchyev from Tbilisi, Georgia, by 79 spoons disgusting.
Elchyev from Tbilisi, Georgia, by 79 spoons
to 53.
Research,

Write & Present

A Go to www.guinnessworldrecords.com. Find information
about two incredible world records. Write a short
paragraph about each one.

B Present your information to the class.
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