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LISTENING GAP-FILL

Spain _____________________ their first ever World Cup final by beating Germany _____________________ Durban. The 1-0 score line does not reflect how Spain dominated the Germans _____________________. Their trademark one-touch football was classy and entertaining. It’s _____________________ continued efforts to score were not matched by more goals. The _____________________ came with 17 minutes remaining. It was a powerful header by defender Carles Puyol from a Spain corner. The _____________________ back of the net so quickly Puyol must have used all his _____________________. Germany had a few chances but were largely left chasing the ball. Every _____________________, Spanish players _____________________ down and get the ball back. Spain meet the Netherlands in Sunday’s final. Neither team _____________________.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

Spain in first booked place their ever their World Cup final by beating Germany in a thrilling match in Durban. The 1-0 does line score how reflect not Spain dominated the Germans throughout the game. Their trademark one-was football touch entertaining and classy. It’s a shame their skill and efforts score not continued to were matched by more goals. The only goal of the game came with 17 minutes remaining. a was It by header powerful defender Carles Puyol from a Spain corner. The ball into blasted so net the of back the quickly Puyol must have used all his neck muscles to the max. Germany had a few chances but chasing left largely were ball the. Every time they got possession, Spanish players were quick to close them get and down back ball the. Spain meet the Netherlands in Sunday’s final. Neither team has won the trophy before.

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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