Ever climbed up a building? Bounced off walls?

Or jumped AINT NO BUILDING

HIGH ENOUGH
from rooftop to rooftop? Parkour practitioners do it every
day. Parkour is the art of displacement, or the ability to
A new sport takes over a city.
move from one place to another as fast as possible. You use

Jumping
only your body and there is no safety equipment (as in other
extreme sports). Practitioners, called traceurs (which
means to go fast, in French), say it is an art form an
interaction between the buildings and structures that surround Jacques
you combining aesthetics and physical control. These Reading I
Read the article once. Which extreme sport is it about? What does
days, Parkour is popping up everywhere, including it consist of?
Hollywood. The 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale opens
Reading II
with a scene featuring Parkour traceur Sebastien Foucan. Read the article again. Then give a one-minute (100-word)
He grew up practicing parkour in Paris. I always thought of summary of the main points. Try to use the following words.
Parkour as an art, he says in an interview with BBC News. parkour art of displacement spirit traceur building
When I practice my art, I feel a real connection between my environment safety equipment body Casino Royale
body, spirit and my environment. Traceurs often refer to Preposition attack!
Parkour as a philosophy or a way of life rather than sport. In There are various prepositions of movement in this article.
Complete each sentence with the correct preposition.
a lot of ways, Parkour is a means of reclaiming what it means
1. She climbed ____to the top.
to be a human being. It teaches us to move using the natural
2. The ball bounced ____the wall.
methods that we should have learned from infancy. It teaches 3. They jumped ____ rooftop to rooftop.
us to touch the world and interact with it, instead of being 4. He jumped ____ the box and hid there.
5. The cat sprang ____ the basket and went under the settee.
sheltered by it, says one American traceur.