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LISTENING GAP-FILL

Japan brought ___________________ scoring free-kicks to the World Cup with two stunning ___________________. They were two up inside half an hour and the Danes didn’t ___________________. The first was a 30-metre screamer from Daisuke Honda which rocketed ___________________ swerved past goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen ___________________. A pick for goal of the tournament. The second was from Yasuhito Endo - an absolutely ___________________ kick around the Danish wall. With their two-goal advantage, Japan went ___________________ and totally outplayed the Europeans. Early in the second half Endo nearly scored from ___________________ – a 40-metre effort that slipped through Sorensen’s hands and hit the post. Denmark ___________________ through Jon Dahl Tomasson on 87 minutes only for Japan to put ___________________ with a Shinji Okazaki goal three minutes before time.

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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