Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Listening, speaking and vocabulary: Be a good sport!

V Values
1Complete the text with the words in the box. 
    MOVE
  • stamina
  • discipline
  • sportsmanship
  • self-reliance
  • self-esteem
  • commitment
  • team spirit
  • single-mindedness

We're looking for athletes who have unusual ability and the following values:

1 

 

Are you prepared to give most of your free time to training for the next four years?

2 

 

You'll need to be strict about what you eat and drink, and make sure you get enough sleep.

3 

 

An Olympic medal should be your only goal for the next four years – forget about everything else!

4 

 

We'll help and support you, but you'll need to depend on yourself most of the time.

5 

 

Can you keep going for very long periods of hard training?

6 

 

Will you put the needs of the Olympic team before your own needs?

7 

 

Can you show the Olympic values of fair play and respect for your opponents?

If the answer is Yes, come and show us what you can do. In exchange our programme aims to help you to achieve success and an enormous boost to your 

8 .

Giving and reacting to news
2Match lines giving news 1–6 to lines reacting to it a–f. 

  • 1I lost my watch on the beach and found it again in the sand two days later!

  • 2I'm not happy about having to give a presentation to the whole school this afternoon.

  • 3My computer crashed and I've lost my homework!

  • 4I've run 100 metres in 11.3 seconds!

  • 5My dad's taking me to the match as a reward for working so hard.

  • 6Mrs Jones says I can't be in the school choir because my singing is awful!

  • aOh well, it's not the end of the world.

    bYou deserve it!

    cWell done!

    dWhat rubbish! Your voice is beautiful!

    eCheer up! It'll all go really well, I'm sure!

    fYou're kidding! That's so lucky!

Giving and reacting to news
3You’re going to listen to Kate telling her cousin Gemma that she’s been accepted on the Olympic training programme. Tick the expressions you think you will hear. Then play the recording and check. 

Giving and reacting to news
4Play the recording and listen to the dialogue. Are the sentences True or False? Correct the false ones. 
You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

  • 1Gemma already knew that Kate was trying to get onto the training programme.

     

  • 2Kate was surprised at being selected for the programme.

     

  • 3Kate has spent a lot of the last four years in the swimming pool.

     

  • 4Gemma thinks winning a medal is important.

     

Giving and reacting to news
5Put the words in the correct order to make sentences from a dialogue between Ben and his friend Joe. Then play the recording, listen and check. 
You need to use correct punctuation in this task.
    • some
    • got
    • I've
    • news
    • afraid
    • I'm
    • bad
    • .

    1

       

    • happened
    • !
    • no
    • What's
    • oh
    • ?

    2

       

    • to
    • sorry
    • really
    • that
    • hear
    • I'm
    • !

    3

       

    • be
    • must
    • you
    • terrible
    • feeling
    • .

    4

       

    • on
    • well,
    • the
    • look
    • try
    • side
    • oh
    • bright
    • to
    • .

    5

       

6 CHALLENGE! Read the text to Holly from her sister. Write the dialogue when Holly tells her flatmate, Rick, the news.

 
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