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ESL / EFL Lesson Plan on Argentina 4 South Korea 1 - by Sean Banville

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LISTENING GAP-FILL

Argentina _________________________ this match and sent out _________________________. Maradona’s team mean business. The Argentinians put on a quality _________________________ football. Although Lionel Messi did not _________________________, he thrilled the crowd with his delicate footwork. Messi’s curled free kick from _________________________ resulted in the first goal – _________________________ S.Korea’s Park Chu-young after 16 minutes. Hat-trick hero Gonzalo Higuain _________________________ on 33 minutes with a close-range header. _________________________ Korea’s Lee Chung-yong in to make it 2-1 _________________________. Messi was instrumental in setting up Argentina’s third and fourth goals for Higuain, who tapped in a shot off the post and _________________________ Messi chip.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

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STUDENT WORLD CUP SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about the World Cup in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

	STUDENT 1 _____________	STUDENT 2 _____________	STUDENT 3 _____________
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• Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.
• Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

WORLD CUP DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
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 WRITING

Write about this game for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper.

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HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. MY REPORT: Write a newspaper report about yesterday’s games. Read your report to your partner(s) in your next lesson.

3. WATCH TODAY’S GAMES IN ENGLISH: Write down all the new words you hear below. Bring them to class tomorrow to share with your classmates.

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