culture Football and soccer

I can understand a programme about a popular sport. 7

Start thinking 4 Watch again. Match questions 1–8 with answers
a–h.
Answer the questions.
1 How many football teams have most towns and
1 Which sports are popular in your country?
cities in England got?
2 What is your favourite sport?
2 Which league do Aston Villa, Liverpool and
3 Do you prefer watching or doing sport? Why?
Manchester United play in?
3 Which US soccer team did the Brazilian Marta
Comprehension check play for?
1 Watch the DVD. Choose the correct answers. 4 Which sports can all students in the USA play at
1 What is the most popular sport in England? school?
a cricket  b rugby  c football 5 Where is the Fair Lawn soccer team from?
2 Where is the footballer Marta from? 6 What are they practising tomorrow?
a Brazil  b Italy  c Portugal 7 What are Fair Lawn’s colours?
3 What is special about Fair Lawn’s match next 8 What will happen if Fair Lawn win the final match
weekend? next weekend?
a  it’s the first  b  it’s the last  c  it’s difficult
a Penalties.
2 Watch again. Are the sentences about the USA or b The Premier League.
the UK?
c Baseball or basketball.
1 Modern football originated here.
d Red, white and black.
2 The name of the sport is soccer.
e Los Angeles Sol.
3 Other popular national sports are cricket and
f They’ll be league champions.
rugby.
g At least one.
4 The women’s team won the Olympic gold medal
h New Jersey.
in 2008.
5 Famous professional clubs are Aston Villa,
5 Watch again. Complete the summary with the
Liverpool and Manchester United.
words in the box.
6 LA Galaxy is a famous team.
team family league trainer 
3 Watch again. Choose the correct words. match pitch trophy players

1 There are over 4,000 / 40,000 football clubs in

England. The 1 in the Fair Lawn soccer 2
2 Some Premier League clubs have got supporters are all girls. They play in a junior soccer 3 .
all around the country / world. They’re playing an important 4 on
3 The US women’s team beat Brazil / Portugal at Sunday. Their 5 and friends are watching
the 2008 Olympics. the match and they all think that Fair Lawn will
4 The women’s professional soccer league is the win. People also play American football on the
MLS / WPS. 6 . Fair Lawn win and their 7 is
very pleased. If they win next weekend, they’ll get
5 David Beckham played for LA Galaxy / LA Sol.
a8 .
6 Fair Lawn play in a junior / senior soccer league.
7 They’re playing a match on Saturday / Sunday.
8 Fair Lawn win / lose the match.

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 Language check Extension
be going to Look at the photos and answer the questions.
• Their parents are going to watch the match on
A
Sunday.

will and be going to

• The match is going to begin at eleven o’clock.
• Their friends and family are sure the team will
win.
• The girls hope they won’t lose the final match
next weekend.

Present continuous for future arrangements

• They’re playing an important game at the
weekend.
B
6 Write affirmative and negative sentences using be
going to.
1 we / watch / a football match
2 you / not be / late
3 I / leave / home early
4 George / buy / the tickets
5 Paula / not play / today
6 we / not have / a big lunch
7 they / go / by bus
8 I / not wear / a coat
Photo A
• What sport are the people doing?
7 Choose the correct words.
• Can you do this sport at your school?
Kate What 1 are you doing / will you do • What other sports do you do at school?
tomorrow? • What sports are you good at?
Lee 2 I’ll go / I’m going shopping.
Kate Really? What are you 3 will buy / going to
Photo B
buy?
• What sport are the people doing?
Lee 4 I’ll get / I’m going to get a laptop.
• Can you do this sport at your school?
Kate That’s nice. Where 5 are you going to look /
• What sports do you watch on TV?
will look?
• What sports are you not very good at?
Lee My dad knows some good shops. 6 He’s
coming / He’ll come with me.
Kate Do you think 7 he’ll help / he’s helping to pay
for it?
Lee I hope so! 8 I’m not having / I won’t have
enough money to buy one on my own!

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