Walking on water – answers
Part A
1 Being able to walk on water would be a (1) miracle.
2 Water-walkers don’t just walk on water – they also (4) roll, flip, run and spin on water
3 The presenter Simon Spark suggests you may have (1) guessed what people who do this sport are called.
4 The sport has been popular in (3) Japan, South Korea and China for the last (1) 5 years.
Part B
5 She is the Duty Manager at the swimming pool / sports centre.
6 Strenuous
7 It is fantastic, great fun / so much fun.
8 Inflated
9 2 metres.
10 To make the most of your time in the ball.
11 You’ll be lucky to last 5 minutes.
12 Quite a bit of skill.
13 To balance (yourself).
14 He is a lifeguard. (The punctuation on his T-shirt is incorrect.)
15 2-3 mins
16 Whether they will be strong enough to take up the challenge.
17 She says she’d love to have a go.
18 That it is good, fun and really hard.
19 "I have enough doing the water aerobics" = that is quite difficult enough for me.
20 You need to be prepared 1) to get fit quick and 2) be laughed at by giant hamsters (because you look like a hamster running round in a ball).
Vocabulary
A duty manager = an assistant manager, usually responsible for allotting hours, shifts and responsibilities to workers.
To make the most of sth – to be able to take advantage of sth to the maximum.
to be lucky to – to achieve sth against improbably or difficult odds. Eg "You’ll be lucky to catch the bus’ = you are unlikely to catch the bus.
A lifeguard is a person on a beach or at a swimming pool whose job is to make certain that the swimmers are safe and save them if they are in danger.
to have a go at sth = to try sth
And now back to the ….