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TIMESAVER PICTURE PROMPTS Football reporter

A Football reporter
1 There was a dramatic football match last Saturday and you were the reporter.
Complete your report. Use the past simple.

began
1 The match .................................. fouled
badly. Robertson .................................. Jones
kicked
in the penalty area – he .................................. him viciously in the foot.
(begin, foul, kick)
2 The referee .................................. the incident and ..................................
Robertson off immediately. (see, send)

3 Jackson .................................. the penalty kick. As he ..................................

up to the ball, he .................................. to hesitate slightly. (take, run, seem)

4 The crowd .................................. as Johnson, the Rovers’, goalkeeper,

.................................. a dramatic save. (roar, make)

5 There .................................. a dramatic moment right at the end of the first

half. United’s Johnny James .................................. the ball to Black. (be, pass)

6 Black .................................. , he .................................. aim – and ............................ .

(turn, take, score)

7 Rovers .................................. to make the score one–all. MacDonald

.................................. the ball towards the net but he .................................. to
score. (try, head, fail)

8 The game .................................. dramatically. The Rovers fans

.................................. madly as Wilson .................................. the ball from 25
yards. But he .................................. the net. United .................................. the
match, one–nil. (end, cheer, kick, miss, win)

2 Look at pictures A–E on sheet B. Match the photos to five of the sections
1–8 above. Write the correct letters next to the right sections.

You can use

real
Work in pairs. teams if yo
3 u like, or
• Cut out the five photos A–E on sheet B. even invent
super
teams with
• Your partner shuffles them. You are the famous
reporter! players.
Useful expressions
• Pick up the pictures and say what
• the crowd roared when ...
happened in the match – in the order of
• there was a dramatic moment when...
the photos.
• in the (89th) minute ...
• Now swap roles: you shuffle and your
• right at the beginning of the match ...
partner reports.
• just before the final whistle ...
• (three) minutes into the (first) half ...

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