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4 Sports Name:

Amazing Athletes Twenty-First Century Skills  Collaboration and Communication

STUDENT A

1 Read about Natalia Partyka and answer your partner’s questions.

Natalia Partyka is a Polish athlete. She was born on July 27th 1989
without a right hand and part of her arm.
When she was seven, she started playing table tennis. She was
the world’s youngest Paralympic athlete when she played in the
2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. She was eleven years old.
Four years later, at the Paralympics in Athens, she won a gold and
a silver medal for table tennis.
In 2008, she went to the Beijing and played table tennis in the
Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Only one other athlete
competed in both games that year, a South African swimmer
called Natalie du Toit.

2 Now, ask questions about Christos Kapellas.

When was Christos Kapellas born?

When did he start doing track?

Who helped him meet his coach, Dimitris Sklavounos?

When and where was his first international event?

What sports did he do in the Paralympics and when?

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4 Sports Name:

Amazing Athletes Twenty-First Century Skills  Collaboration and Communication

STUDENT B

1 Ask questions about Natalia Partyka.

Which country is Natalia Partyka from?

How old was she in the 2000 Paralympic Games?

Where did she go for the Paralympics in 2004?

What medals did she win in 2004?

What did she and Natalie du Toit do in 2008?

2 Now, read about Christos Kapellas and answer your partner’s questions.
Christos Kapellas is a Greek athlete. He was born in
1982. In 1999, when he was 17 years old, he had an
accident on his motorbike and lost his left leg. But
after only 15 days he learned to walk again with a
new leg.
In 2002, he started doing track and his grandmother
helped him meet Dimitris Sklavounos. Dimitris
Sklavounos became his coach and helped him
prepare as an athlete. He went to his first international
event in 2005 in Finland.
In 2008, he went to the Paralympic Games and
did the High Jump. Then in 2016, he did the
Long Jump.

© Cengage Learning, Inc. LEVEL 4