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02SPORT & FITNESSSPORT & FITNESS

THE GAMESTHE GAMES

Choosing the correct picture

1 Listen to the short conversations. After each conversation, you will be asked a question about what youve heard. Choose the picture A, B or C which gives the best answer.

You will only hear the question at the end of each conversation, so as you listen, note down key words that may help you.

1 A B C

2 A B C

3 A B C

4 A B C

5 A B C

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1 Match the questions to the replies.1 Which Olympic sports do you like best? 2 Which sports dont you like watching?3 Would you rather go to an Olympic stadium, or watch

the Games on TV? 4 What do you prefer doing: playing team games or

doing athletics?5 Do you think its good to have the Olympics in your

country? Why? / Why not?

a I dont like sport that much, so Id prefer to watch it on TV.

b I like diving and basketball. c I prefer playing team games. I hate running. d I like it when the Olympics are here because

everybody gets excited! e I cant stand watching weightlifting. Its really boring.

2 Discuss the questions in exercise 1 with a partner. Use the words and phrases to help you.

EXPRESSING LIKES AND DISLIKESI like / love / enjoy watching weightliftingI dont like / hate / cant stand sport

EXPRESSING PREFERENCESI prefer playing team gamesId prefer to watch it on TVId rather go to a stadium

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Some, any, every, no

1 Rewrite the incorrect sentences. The Olympic Games is somewhere that happens every four years. something

1 Each time, the Games is held everywhere different.2 I dont know no one in the weightlifting team.3 Do you know something about the diving events?4 Has somebody been to the Olympic Stadium?5 I cant find the tickets nowhere. 6 Anybody lives in the Olympic village while theyre

competing.

2 Choose the best word to complete the hints. Then answer the questions. Compare your answers with a partner then check them on page 126.1 Which was the first Olympic sport?

Hint: Its something / nothing you do when youre late for school!

2 Which is the missing sport in the modern pentathlon? Running, swimming, shooting, fencing and Hint: Its no one / something that involves an animal.

3 Who won the gold medal in the women's 400 m hurdles in the 2004 Olympics? Hint: It was somebody / somewhere Greek.

4 Which sport did they introduce at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta? Hint: Everybody / Everything plays this on the beach!

5 Where was the 2004 Olympics held?Hint: It was something / somewhere in Europe.

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3 Read the text about the history of the Olympics and complete the spaces using one word only.

Look at words on either side of a gap to get a clue about what word is missing. Identifying the kind of word, e.g. preposition, pronoun, etc. can help you find the right answer.

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The first Olympic Games were held at Olympia 0 Greece in 776 BC. The Games were small and there 1 just one race. It was a 185 metre running race called the Stade, and a cook named Koroibus was the first person to win it. In the race, the athletes ran 2 a straight pieceof track. They didnt run 3 a stadium as they do today. The Games were very popular and took place regularly, so gradually they introducednew races.

The Games werent international as they are today. The organizers didnt allow 4 from outside Greece to compete. They didnt 5 to allow women to compete either, but later theyintroduced separate games for women. While they 6 preparing for the Games, the athletes trained hard. They used 7 train for ten months before the Games. The athletes were very popular and 8 in the country respected them. In those days, there were a lot of wars, but while the athletes were travelling to and from the Games,the fighting stopped. This was because 9 was allowed to hurt the athletes. In AD 393, the emperor, Theodocious I, banned the Games, but in the 19th century, 10 Frenchman called Pierre de Coubertin revived them. The first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens on 5 April 1896.

THE HISTORYOF THE GAMES

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