G past tenses: simple, continuous, perfect Why did

V sport
he lose the Because he w asn't
P /':>:/ and /3:/
match? fee ling very well in
t he last set.

1 VOCABULARY sport 3 SPEAKING

a Do the quiz in sn1all groups. ln pairs, interviev,1 your partner about sport using the
questionnaire. Ask for rnore i11formation.
SPORTS QUIZ
What sport do you associate with ... ?

What
What sports sport(s)
do / did you do you
have t o do at do?
How
school?
often do
you do
you enJOY sport?
I"t?
. Have you
ever won
Do you do a cup or a
any kind of t rophy?
exercise? Have you
ever been
Do you t hink
you're fi t? injured doing
Would you like sport ?
to get fitter? Do you
Do your prefer
b )>- p.157 Vocabulary Bank Sport. doing sport
family and
friends like or watching
sport ?
sport?
2 PRONUNCIATION /J:/ and /3:/ Is t here
any sport How many hours
a \Vrite the words in the correct colun1n. Be careful
you don't mind do you spend a
\.Vith or (t here are two possible pronunciations) . wat ching on week wat ching
TV? sport on TV?
ball caught court draw f ought hurt score
serve shirt sport warm up world worse work out What Do you
sport (s) do you go t o wat ch
hate watching a local sport s
on TV? team?
What's t he
Have you most excit ing
ever found a sport s event
sport ing event you have been
excit ing? t o?

b 3 6 >)) Listen and check. Do you t hink Do you t hink

that t here are
c >- p.166 Sound Bank. Look at the typical spellings good sports
of these sounds . facilit ies in your
t own?
d 3 7>)) Listen and write six sentences.
Do you t hink
physical educat ion
should be opt ional
t here is too much
(or not enough)
or compulsory at
sport on TV?
school?

II
4 READING e Look at the photos of fou r n1ore fa n1o us sports people
who are superstitious. Do you kno\v vvhat any of their
a Do you k110\v of a ny sports players 'vho are superstitions are or \·Vere?
s uperstitious? What do they do?

b Read an article about s port s uperstitions and con1plete

it with A - F.
A It is not only the players \vho are superstitious
B A good example is Serena Willian1s Tiger Woods
C Superst itions and rituals are very con1n1on an1ong fans
D After n1y 'A' ife had left the roo1n, Mur ray lost the
fourth set
E T he superstitions and r ituals a re not confined to the
court
F '.f'emm,.,tt)'ers are s trange people
c Read the article again. Who does the a r t icle say f > Communication Other sporting superstitions
are superstitious: sports players, spor ts fans , TV A p .106 B p .110. Read and tell each other about the
spectators, or all of the111? people in t he photos.

d Underline five words or phrases you want to ren1cmber g Do )'01.1 have any superst itions, e.g. when you are
fron1 the a r t icle. playing or "''a tching sport, or before an exan1?

If I bounce the ball five ..

MATTHEW SYED writes about
3 W
__i_m_b-le_d_o_n_c_h_a_m
. Goran lvanisevic,
- pi-on in 2001, was 6 .
-an-d-he_w_o_n-th_e_fi_f-t h
She retur ned.
- . 1laughed at her,
sporting superstrtions
convinced t hat if he won a mat ch he and then remembere d my football

1 Tennis pJavers are stran ge people. Have

you noticed how t hey always ask for
t hre e balls instead of two; how they
bounce t he ball the same number of
times before serving. as if any change
from t heir routine might result in
disast er?
had to repeat everything he did the
previous day. such as eating the same
food at t he same restaurant, talking
t o t he same people and watching
the same TV programmes. One year
this meant that he had to watch
Teletubb ies ever y morning during his
Wimbledon campaign. 'Sometimes it
got very boring,' he said.
team, Spurs. who were losing 1-0 in
the Carling Cup. 'If I leave the room
now, Spurs will score,' I told my kids,
after 27 minutes of extra t ime. I left
t he room and they scored. Twice.
Glossary
Teletubbies a British televisio n
series fo r very young child ren
Spurs Torrenhan1 a Lo ndon

4 .
As we were
wa tching British tennis player
footba ll cean1

Andy Murray play the fourth set at

Wimbledon. my wife suddenly got up
and went t o t he kitchen. 'He keeps
losing games when I'm in the room;
she said. 'If I go out now. he'll win.'

5 ________. Last year. a

survey of British football supporters

2 - -- - - - -- · t he ex-world
number 1 female tennis player. When
she was once asked why she had
played so badly at t he Fren ch Open
she answered. 'I didn't tie my shoe
laces right and I didn't bounce the ball
five times and I didn't bring my shower
sandals t o t he court wit h me. I didn't
have my ext ra dress. I j ust knew it was
fate; it wasn't going t o happen.'
found t hat 21 per cent had a lucky
char m (anything f rom a scarf
to a lucky coin). while another
quest ionnaire revealed that 70
per cent of Spanish f ootball fans
perfor med pre-match rituals (like
wearing 'lucky' clothes. eating the
same food or drink, or watching
matches with the same people).
 5 LISTENING
a In your country, are referees a) \vell-paid b) respecred c) unpopu Jar?
V/hy d o you think son1ebody would \Vant to becorne a referee?
b 3 8 >)) You 're goi ng to hear to an in tervievv wirh a n ex-Chan1 pions
League football referee fro n1 S pa in . Listen to Part 1 a11d choose
a,b,orc.
6 GRAMMAR past tenses: simple,
continuous, perfect
a In you r country, is cheating considered a
serio us prohle111 in sport? In 'vhat sports
do you think cheati ng is rnost con11non?
\Vhat kind of th ings do people do \vhen they
cheat?

b Read Takin{] a short cut about a n1ar athon

runner \¥ho cheated. How d id she cheat?

1 Why did he becon1e a referee?

a His fat her \vas a referee.
b lie liked sport, but \vasn't good at it.
c He \Vas alvvays att racted by the idea.
2 \Vhat \vas the n1ost exciting n1atch he ever refereed?
a His first p rofessional n1atch .
b I-le can't choose just o ne .
c R eal Madr id against Barcelona.
3 T he \VOrst exper ience he ever had as a referee was \vhen _ __
attacked hini. c Look at the h ighligI1te<l verbs in the text.
a a player b a woman c a chi ld W hich of thern are used for . .. :>
4 \:<,t hy does he think there is rnore cheating in football today? 1 a con1ple ted actio n in the past
a Because football is big business. 2 an actio n that happened bejore the past tin1e
b Because the referees are \vorse. are talking about
c Because footballers are better at cheating. 3 an actio n in progress (or not) at a particular
S Ho\v does he say footballers often c heat? n10111en t in the past
a They fall over \vhen no one has touched t hen1. d > p. 14 0 Grammar Bank SA. Learn more
b They accept n1oney to lose marches. abo u t past tenses and practise them.
c They to uch the ball \vith their hands.
e R ead The hand of God? a nd con1plete it w ith
c 3) 9 l)) Now listen to Part 2. Con1plete the sentences w ith one to the ver bs in the right te11ses .
th ree v.1o rds .
1 T he 1nost difficu lt thing for him about bei ng a referee is n1aking
________ during a n1atch.
2 O ne o f the reasons \v hy it's d ifficult is because football to day is
so _ _ _ __ _ __
3 Maki ng co rrect decisions often depends on the referee's
interpretation o f _ _ _ _ _ _ __
4 He thi n ks t hat players \vho chea t arc still
5 A study t hat vvas done on Leo Mcssi sho,vs that he can run
exceptionally fas t _ __ _ _ __
6 He thinks Messi isn't the _ __ _ _ _ _ footballer.
d Do you agree with the refer ee that there is rnore cheating in
football tl1an before? Ts it true in other sports as vvell? \Vou ld you
like to be a sports re feree (or u n1pirc)? \Vhy (not):>

• •

Famous (cheating)
moments in sport
Although it isn't true that everybody
in sport cheats, it is certainly true that
there are cheats in every s port ...
Ta
n 21 April 1980, 23-year-old Rosie
Ruiz as the first woman to cross the
finish line at the Boston Marathon.
She finished the race in the t hird -fastest ti me
for a female runner (two hours, 31 min utes,
56 seconds). But when the organizers
congratulated Rosie after the race, they were
surprised because she asn't sweating very
much. Some spectators who were watching
the race told them what had really happened,
During the last half mile Rosie suddenly
jumped out of the crowd and sprinted to
the finish line. The marathon organizers
took Ruiz's title away and awarded it to the
real winner, Jacqueline Gareau. It was later
discovered that three months earlier Rosie had
also cheated in the New York Marathon where
she had taken the subway!
The hand of God?
twas 22 June 1986. Argentina
1were playing (play) England in the quarter-
finals of the World Cup and both teams
2 (play) well. The score 3 (be)
o-o. I n the 51st minute the Argentinian
captain, Diego Maradona, 4 (score) a
goal. The English players s (protest),
but the referee s (give) the goal.
However, TV cameras showed t hat Maradona
1 (score) the goal with his hand!
Maradona a (say) the next day, 'It was
partly the hand of Maradona, and partly the
hand of God .'
Later in the game Maradona g (score)
another goal and Argentina io (win)
t he match 2-1. They went on to win the World
Cup.
7 SPEAKING
a You arc going to tel l your pa rtner t\VO
anecdotes. C hoose t\VO of the topics belo"'
and plan 'vhat you arc going to say. Ask your
teacher for anv \VOrds ,vou need.
'
TELL YOUR PARTNER ABOUT...
• a time you cheated (in a sport I game
or in an exam)
When and where did this happen? What were
you doing? Why did you cheat? What happened in
the end?
....._ • a really exciting sports event you saw
Where and when was it? Who was
playing?
What happened? Why was it so
exciting?
• a time you had an accident or
got a sports injury
When and where did this happen?
What were you doing? How did t he accident
happen? What part of your body did you hurt?
What happened next? How long did it take you
to recover?
• a time you got lost
Where were you going? How were
you travelling? Why did you get lost? What
happened in t he end?
b \.Vork vvith a part ner. ' l'cll each o ther your
t \VO stories . G ive as 111uch detail as you can.
p Starting an anecdote
I'm going to tell you about a t ime when...
This happened a few years ago...
When I was younger...
8 WRITING
> p.116 Writing Telling a story. \\frite a story about son1eth ing
that happened to you.
9 3 14 >)) SONG We Are the Champions 1'