Monday 30th September
Unit II: The best athletes in the world!
Team sports: Individual sports:
volleyball table tennis
soccer swimming
Actions:
to swim to run to climb to ride
to play to practise = to train
to persevere to compete → to win ≠ to lose
to support
People:
the players the coach the referee
an athlete = a sportsman / sportswoman / sportsperson
a competitor the winner ≠ the loser
the defending champion the underdog = the outsider
a supporter
Places:
a stadium a golf course a track a tennis court
a ground / pitch a gymnasium = a gym
a pool
Events:
the Olympic games, the World Cup = a competition / a contest
a match a race a tournament
Tuesday 1st October
What qualities do you need to be a good sportsperson?
You must be athletic and strong. You need to be perseverant, resistant, ambitious and competitive. You
need to be brave and dynamic.
You need to have stamina, self-control and will-power.
Warm up
9 11 1- a person who encourages the players
8 1 S
U P P O R T E R 2- a tennis competition
C R U 3- a person with a good physical condition is...
2 T O U R N A M E N T N 4- a sports group
M C 10 12 5- a football / rugby match is played on a ...
3 A T H L E T I
6- if you don't win, you are the...
P C
7- if you are the best, you are the...
4 T E A M I R O 8- you take part in it to see if you are the best
T S A A 9- a synonym of to do / to play a sport
I E I C 10- athletes do it every day
5 P I T C H N H 11- sportspeople do it a lot!
I I 12- the person who helps the athlete
6 L O S E R 7 W I N N E R
N G
Listening activity
Document 1, 4 people are talking about the sports they like to practise and the sports they like to watch:
1- She likes to practise swimming □ competitively x for fun and exercise
She likes to watch soccer
She watched x the world cup □ the Euro and she thought it was exciting and interesting
2- His favourite sport is soccer because he loves the passion of it and it's a very fast game. So he likes
to x watch x play it. In general, x he likes to watch all kinds of sports
□ he doesn't like to watch sports on tv, for example: rugby and tennis
3- She likes to practise skiing, she likes to watch ice hockey
because it is □ the funniest sport on tv x the sexiest sport on tv
4- He likes to practise badminton, but he hates sports, he doesn’t like football or ice hockey
The problem with his friends is that they always talk about sports
Document 2, Santi and Todd are talking about sports :
1- Santi likes swimming and yoga
She practises it x to relax □ for competition □ to get stronger x to reduce stress
- She prefers x individual sports □ team sports
because x she can compete with herself □ she can compete with others
□ she doesn't have friends x she's angry at her friends when she loses
- Pick up one adjective about her personality: competitive
2- Todd prefers □ individual sports x team sports because there is friendship
Thursday 3rd October
I like to practise football because you need stamina and I like to watch
basketball because it is exciting.
I prefer individual sports because I can’t play with others. / I prefer team sports because you share victory
or loss with your partners.
Friday 4th October
I prefer team sports because I like team spirit and you can share victory or loss with your friends.
I prefer individual sports because you can compete with yourself and it is a challenge.
Monday 7th October
the superlative form = comparing one element to a whole group
short adjectives long adjectives exceptions
the hardest the most violent good = the best
the fastest the most relaxing bad = the worst
the easy iest the most popular
the funny iest the most challenging
the most boring
People say that rugby is the most violent sport of all.
I suppose yoga is the most relaxing sport.
I think that football is the most popular sport in the world.
I think ...
People say that boxing is the most violent sport of all but I don’t think so.
Tuesday 8th October
Practise!
1- Write them in superlative form:
the most… … amazing / incredible / captivating / outstanding / famous
the fastest / the tallest / the greatest / the youngest / the smallest / the strongest
2- Choose 1 to 5 athletes you know and 5 adjectives from the list. Make 5 sentences about them.
Felix Lebrun is the most famous French table tennis player in the world.
Antoine Dupont is the most amazing rugby player.
Stephen Curry is the tallest basketball player.
Mike Tyson is the strongest boxer of all times.
Ussein Bolt is the fastest runner.
Khabib is the most captivating fighter of all.
Lamine Yamal is the youngest player to compete in the Euro.
Teresa Purales is the most incredible athlete of all.
Preterit: see mind map!!
years: 2024 = twenty twenty-four
2017 = twenty seventeen
1956 = nineteen fifty-six
1906 = nineteen oh six
2000 = two thousand
2009 = two thousand and nine
time indicators: last week, month, year
In 1996
il y a 10 ans = there are 10 years
ten years ago
A few examples of Olympic sports
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* More details about Athletics = Track and field sports:
- running: - sprint - middle distance - long distance - marathon
- hurdles - relay
- race walking
- jumping: - high jump - long jump - triple jump - pole vault
- throwing: - discus throw - javelin throw - hammer throw - shot put
- multiple events: - triathlon - pentathlon - heptathlon - decathlon
