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8 A QUESTION OBJECTIVES
FUNCTIONS:
OF talking about sports; talking about
feelings; talking about ongoing past
events, sequencing events
GRAMMAR:
past continuous; past continuous vs.
Get THiNKING past simple; w enand w ile
VOCABULARY:
Watch the video and think: what can
sport and sports verbs; adverbs of
you learn from winning and losing? sequence
@ READING
Look at the photos on page 75. Which sports are
the stories about?
Match the words in the list with the photos.
Write 1 -6 in the boxes. (d>) 8.01 Read and listen to the article and check
your answers.
1 basketball | 2 horse racing | 3 gymnastics
4 athletics | 5 swimming | 6 tennis Read the article again. Are the sentences T (true)
or F (false)? Correct the false ones.
Which sport(s) in Exercise 1 has these things? Usain Bolt won both the 100m and 200m
gold medals at three Olympic Games.
a ball | a race | a track | water
Bolt won all his gold medals running on his own.
bars | a net | a match | a rider
Bolt was world champion 11 times.
Nadia Comaneci was 16 years old when she got the
Name other sports in English.
perfect score.
Which sports are popular in your country? The scoreboard didn't show Comaneci's
Which ones do you like? Write P (popular) score correctly.
and/or L (like) next to each photo. Comaneci scored 10.00 six times at the
Montreal Olympics.
SPEAKING Compare your ideas with a partner.
Some people thought it was impossible to run
a mile in four minutes.
Basketball is popular here, I like tennis and it's Roger Bannister did not win a medal at the 1952
but I don’t like it very much. very popular here. Olympic Games.
