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FOOTBALL …but not as you know it!
Sports and sports equipment Things you can do with a ball/Playing and scoring Sports venues 1 speaking Decide if we use ‘play’, ‘go’ or ‘do’ with each sport below. Do the sports that go with each verb have anything in common?
The Camp Nou in Barcelona is one of the biggest football (a) in the world, with a capacity of approximately 100,000 people. Manchester United (1) beat/won a memorable Champion’s League final there, when they (2) beat/won Bayern Munich. In the 91 st minute they were (3) drawing/losing 1–0 (one–nil). Then they (4) scored/shot a goal and it was 1–1 (one all). They got another (5) goal/point thirty seconds later, in the last minute of the (6) league/match . Musselburgh Links in Scotland is the oldest golf (b) in the world. They say that Mary Queen of Scots played there in 1567! The English national football team plays at Wembley. They also have pop and rock concerts there. When they do this, they need to cover the (c) so that nothing happens to the grass, which is quite expensive. The Wimbledon Tennis Championships® began in 1877. It can take about 15 months to prepare the grass for the outdoor (d) where the top players compete. The word (e) comes from a longer word which was the name for the place in Ancient Greece where athletes trained and took exercise. Sometimes they had a (f ) You can swim 40 metres down! The water is 32°C. One of the most beautiful places in the world to skate is the (h) Square near St. Basil’s Cathedral. Corbet’s Couloir in Wyoming, US, is one of the world’s most frightening ski (i) nearby which they could run around. Y-40 in Padua, Italy, is the deepest (g) in the world. which they sometimes install in Moscow’s Red . There’s a very big jump and it’s SPORTS VENUES WITH A DIFFERENCE ! 6 Complete the text with the correct form of the words below in a to i. In 1 to 6, choose the correct alternative. course • c ourt • gym • pitch • pool • rink • slope • stadium • track 51 Sports venues
1a speaking Look at the photos above. Have you tried these sports? Would you like to try them? Why/Why not?
LIV COOKE was 14 when she signed to play with a football club in the north of England. In one match she had a back injury. To help her recover and stay fit, she started doing tricks with a football and improving her ball-control skills, all part of a sport called freestyle football. Because of her back problem, she had to practise sitting down. Luckily, this helped her to learn some very difficult tricks. She enjoyed it all so much that she decided to take up the sport full-time at the age of just 16. She became the UK’s first professional female football freestyler, the youngest in the world. 2017 was the year when Liv became the world champion at the age of just 18. To win a freestyle competition, two people go on stage for three minutes and take turns to do tricks for 30 seconds each. Judges then decide the winner. Liv often appears on social media, TV shows and adverts doing her amazing tricks. She used to be nervous about standing up and speaking at school, but now she can get up on a stage in front of thousands of people and show off her skills. She says it was freestyle football that changed her life. BEN NUTTALL is another great football freestyler whose videos are amazing. One day somebody offered him the chance to become a member of the England teqball team. His reply was more or less ‘What’s teqball?!’ In fact, it was three Hungarians who created the sport in 2014. It’s a combination of table tennis and football. It’s played on a special table that goes up in a curve in the middle. You can kick a football, or hit it with your head, knee or chest. You can touch the ball a maximum of three times, but each time it has to be with a different part of the body. The last time you touch the ball it must land on the opponent’s side of the table or you lose the point. If the opponents can’t return the ball, they lose the point. The first team to reach 20 points wins a set, and you play a maximum of three sets. Singles and doubles matches are played, and mixed couples or teams with male and female players are fine. After they called him, Ben went to France, which was where the Teqball World Cup took place that year. He was knocked out of the competition, but he really enjoyed learning the sport. Now some famous footballers play it in training sessions and people think it could one day become an Olympic® sport.
Look at the title of the text. What do
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2 Read the text and answer the questions. 1 Were your ideas in 1b right? 2 What are the three main sports that the text talks about?
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athletics • b aseball • basketball • climbing • cricket • cycling • diving • football • golf • gymnastics • horse-riding • ice hockey • ice skating • judo • karate • rugby • sailing • skiing • snowboarding • swimming • tennis • volleyball • weightlifting
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53 Are these statements True (T) or False (F)? Write the line(s) where you find the answer. 1 Liv Cooke always knew she wanted to be a freestyle footballer. T / F 2 A physical problem helped Liv to become a better freestyler. T / F 3 Sport hasn’t made Liv more confident. T / F 4 Ben Nuttall had never played teqball before when he was invited to play for a national team. T / F
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2 Think of two sports for each of the categories below.
ball • c ombat • individual • indoor • non-competitive • team • water • winter 48 Types of sport
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5 You lose a point in teqball if the ball doesn’t touch the table after the last time you hit it. 6 In teqball it’s possible for a man and a woman to play on the same team. 7 In horseball you usually only touch the ball with your hands or feet. 8 You need to be highly skilled to play horseball.
speaking Answer the questions. 1 How often do you play any of the sports in 1? 2 Which types of sports in 2 do you prefer playing or watching? 3 Are there any sports that you play or watch that do not appear in 1? Which?
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Think of one or two sports for
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each word in the box.
4 What do the underlined words in the text mean? Guess and then check in your dictionary. Critical thinkers 5
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bat • b oots • club • goal/goal post • goggles • net • racket • skates • skis • stick • trainers 49 Sports equipment 5 Name one sport where you can do these things with a ball. bounce • c atch • head • hit (with a bat etc.) • kick • pass • throw 50 Things you can do with a ball
quite rocky!
Liv Cooke says that freestyle football changed her life. In what different ways do you think sport can change people’s lives? What makes you say that? Use ideas in the text and/or other facts, opinions and experiences to justify your opinion. Then share your ideas with a partner.
Liv and Ben may be magicians with a football, but they can’t compare to VALENTINE DESCAMPS at horseball. Horseball is very different to football because you don’t kick the ball. The first thing that you need is a horse, of course, and then a football with six handles around it. You can pick the ball up and throw and catch it. But you can’t keep the ball in your hands for more than ten seconds, and your opponents can try to pull the ball out of your hands, like in rugby. You score by throwing the ball into a big basket. So, if you’re a fan of horses, rugby and basketball, this is the sport for you. But don’t think it’s easy. You need great balance, strength and confidence. And you need to be an excellent horse rider. 40 45 50
52 Listen and check your answers. Use it … don’t lose it!
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Play twenty questions. One person in
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your group thinks of a sport.
Is it a team sport?
No, it isn’t.
You can bounce the ball in basketball.
Reach higher
Reach higher
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