Vocabulary: Sport
1 a Recall Books closed, write the following headings on the board: sports, places. Ask Ss to write as many words as possible connected with sports in their notebooks. After a few minutes, elicit the sports and check pronunciation before writing them on the board. Ask Ss to decide which take the verbs play. go and do. If you wish, present the rule that we generally play sports with a bali and go verb + ing. The rest take do. b Extension 3.28 Books open, ask Ss to look at the pictures and match them with the equipment words. In feedback, elicit which sports use each eguipment. Then ask the Ss to listen and repeat the words in the box.
Answer key
a net (tennis), b basket (basketball), c glove (boxing), d bali (basketball) e goal (football), f bat (cricket), g helmet (cycling). h shin pads (football) i racket (tennis)
Dictate the following guestions and ask Ss to discuss in pairs.
Which sports have you played? Which would you like to try?
Which is the most difficult, energetic, fun. expensive sport to play/do?
Do you prefer team sports or mdividual sports? Why?
Listen
2 A Listen and answer the questions. Use words from Exercise 1.
1 What’s the sport7 Where are they?
Who is cheering and clapping?
2 What's the sport? Who‘s talking?
What's just happened?
3 Whals the sport7 Who's Johnny?
Whal did he do?
Grammar Rules and obligation: must/have to Vocabulary Sport (equipment. people and actions)
Vocabulary: Sport (equipment, people and actions)
1a Recall How many sports and sports places can you remember in one minutÄ™? Make lists. Then check the Word bank on page 133.
Sports: football Places: pitch
lD is Extension Listen and repeat. Then match the equipment words with the pictures (a-i).
Equipment: • bali • basket • bat • glove
• goal • helmet • net • racket • (shin)pads
People: • athlete • coach • cyclist
• goalkeeper • player • referee • spectator
• team • umpire
Actions: • play/win/lose/draw (a match)
• score (a goal/point)
• hit/kick/throw/pass (the bali)
• beat (your opponent/a team)
A very strange gamÄ™ of football is played every year in Ashbourne, in the north of England.
The gamÄ™. which is over eight hundred years old, is called Shrovetide football. It lasts for two days and the pitch is the whole town plus the river and fields. There are hundreds of players in each team and there isn't a referee. The goalposts are about five kilometres apart. Each one is under a bridge which goes over the river.
There are so many players in each team that some people stand on walls or climb trees. The bali is passed (usually by hand) between them. To score. a player
in the river and hit the goalpost three times with the bali.
Players i : special clothes,
but most wear shinpads and some wear wetsuits. Every year, some players to hospital. Shopkeepers their shop Windows and drivers away from the town.
Read
3 So Read the article. What did the cheat' do? Comprehension
4 Answer true (T) or false (F).
1 The gamÄ™ lasts for two days. T 2 The players usually use their feet 3 A referee Controls the gamÄ™.
4 The goalposts are near the river.
5 The gamÄ™ is sometimes dangerous.
6 The gamÄ™ is played all day and all night.
Listen
2 3.29 Explain that Ss will listen to three short texts in sports related situations. Allow Ss time to read the guestions before you start.
Answer key
1 motor racing. track, spectators 2 football, coach, a goal has been scored 3 basketball, he’s a player, scored to win the gamę
Read
3 3.30 Tell Ss they are going to read about a different kmd of football garnÄ™. Ask them to look at the photos and say how it might be different. Ss listen to and read the text to answer the guestion.
Answer key
He used a car to transport the bali.
Comprehension
Answer key
2F3F4T5T6F
Grammar
Ask Ss to look at the table. which expresses rules for the gamÄ™. Check their understanding by asking Is it necessary for a player to stand in the river? (yes, Ihey must/have to); Can the players wear special clothes if they want to? (yes, but they don't have to); Is must the same as have to? (yes, but not in the past). Point out that must is morÄ™ a written form. Point out that