6. Water Sport Adventure

Watch the video and choose the words you hear. 1. To most people, the cold wind would feel ____

Watch the video and choose the words you hear. 2. Roeseler says that the power of the ____ in a kite can be like a bird moving its wings

Watch the video and choose the words you hear. 3. Wind power is something that's easily found in the gorge which ____ Washington and Oregon

Watch the video and choose the words you hear. 4. In recent years, more and more people have started using towers for ____

Watch the video and choose the words you hear. 5. Roeseler's tower is ___ feet off the water

Watch the video and choose the words you hear. 6. It's got to go on a ____ wakeboard and get tested in the right environment

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 1. Cory Roeseler is a mechanical engineer who likes to ____ things.

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 2. He came up with the idea of kiteboarding in the 1990s. He used a ____ to catch the power of the wind.

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 3. And to allow the board to launch off the water for a few seconds and ____

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 4. When Roeseler was a teenager, he was the first person to try kite-skiing. He didn't water-ski ___ a boat like other people.

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 5. He decided to use wind ____ to ski below a kite. More recently, Roeseler invented a new kind of wakeboarding boat that has a sail on the back.

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 6. Roeseler's boat also has a tower which is 6 feet higher ____ other wakeboarding boat towers.

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 7. So, the wakeboarding rope is placed ____. This allows the wakeboarder to jump higher in the air. Roeseler's friend, Jeff, was a bit worried before testing the new equipment because he hadn't seen anything like it before.

Complete the sentences of the video with the correct answers. 8. He needn't have worried; as the boat went faster, he started moving quickly across the water and then ___ high into the air.