A good reason to get moving!

The #MyMiles challenge invites 1 people of all ages to do some exercise and collect
money to help young sportspeople. The idea is to do one mile – or forty miles of
exercise 2 in one week. You can complete your mile in different ways. You can walk to
school, cycle or 3 go for a swim. Twenty minutes of dancing or judo also count as one
mile. The number of miles you do is not important – it’s 4 taking part that matters. After
you do your mile or miles, 5 share a video or photo on social media. Then ask a friend to
do the same as you. Don’t forget to give £2 when you finish. All the money from
#MyMiles helps young sports stars with training and competition 6 costs.

Doing the #MyMiles challenge!

Hi, my name’s Damien and I did the #MyMiles challenge. I think it’s a great idea because
you can do any kind of exercise you like. My brother’s crazy about running, but I find it
boring. I also don’t really enjoy team sports like football. It’s not because I can’t play –
I’m actually quite good. So when I heard about #MyMiles, I wanted to think of a
different kind of exercise. I decided to choose something I love doing: skateboarding. I
did it with a group of school friends. My sister took a video of us while we were
skateboarding. We can do lots of different jumps. I uploaded the video to my social
media page. And amazingly, hundreds of people liked the video. I enjoyed showing my
friends what I can do on my skateboard. I had some really cool comments from people.
I gave my £2 and I think my whole school made about £500 in total to help young
sportspeople. I’m going to get my dad to do the #MyMiles challenge now – that will be
fun!

Read Damien’s comment about the challenge and answer the questions.
1 What does Damien like about the challenge?
2 What sport does a member of his family do?
3 Why doesn’t he do team sports like football?
4 Who did he do the MyMiles challenge with?
5 What surprised him about the video?
6 Who is going to do the MyMiles challenge next?

Watch or listen and match the speakers (1–5) with the questions (A–B).
A Where can you play sports where you live?
B What sport(s) can you do well?

Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Speaker 4
Speaker5
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Speaker 1
In my town, you can watch the local team play football or you could go swimming at the
local swimming pool. You can also watch tennis, or you could even play it yourself.

Speaker 2
Um, I live in Bishop’s Stortford and near my house is a park; and you can play football
and basketball there because there is a basketball net and a football goal.

Speaker 3
I can dance really well, but I can’t play football very well.

Speaker 4
Uh … Where I live you can go swimming in the leisure centre, you can play football as
there’s a football team and you can also play cricket.

Speaker 5
So I can swim very well, but I can’t play basketball because I’m not that tall
explore grammar
Read the grammar box. Then go to the next screen.
ability: can/could
A can: to talk about something we are/aren’t able to do
+ Students can help teach sports.
– Most children can’t hit the ball.
? Can you play the guitar? Yes, I can./No, I can’t.
B could: to talk about something we were/weren’t able to do in the past
+ I could explain things well.
– Some of the children couldn’t hold a racket properly.
possibility: can
C can: to talk about things that are possible
Big groups of kids can be difficult to control.

Read the grammar box. Which of these sentences are about ability? Which
are about possibility?
1 Can you play basketball? Ability / possibility
2 Emma can’t play tennis very well. Ability / possibility
3 The swimming pool can be busy on Saturdays. Ability / possibility
4 Horse riding can be dangerous. Ability / possibility
5 I can hit the ball really hard. Ability / possibility
6 Surfing can be difficult for beginners. Ability / possibility