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LISTENING GAP-FILL

Greece came from behind ____________________ first win in Bloemfontein. The 2-1 victory means Nigeria is the ____________________ from the 2010 World Cup. It was Nigeria who ____________________ 16 minutes with Uche’s free-kick. The Super Eagles were in control until Sani Kaita ____________________ 33rd minute for kicking a Greek player. Greece ____________________ of playing against 10 men and immediately went on the attack. A deflection from Dimitrios Salpingidis’ shot drew his side level ____________________. Greece pushed for the winner after the break. Vasilis Torosidis got the winner after 77 minutes ____________________ finale. Nigeria had their chances in the closing stages but failed to take them. Greece held on to ____________________ World Cup win.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

Greece came from behind to rceeus a valuable first win in Bloemfontein. The 2-1 ivtcryo means Nigeria is the first team to txie from the 2010 World Cup. It was Nigeria who opened the scoring on 16 minutes with Uche’s free-kick. The Super Eagles were in cotorln until Sani Kaita was sent off in the 33rd minute for ikckgni a Greek player. Greece took full advantage of playing against 10 men and immediately went on the aattck. A deflection from Dimitrios Salpingidis’ shot rdew his side level just before half time. Greece pushed for the winner after the break. Vasilis Torosidis got the nenwri after 77 minutes to set up a thrilling finale. Nigeria had their accnehs in the closing tgasse but failed to take them. Greece held on to secure their first ever World Cup win.

UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

Greece to behind from came a secure valuable first win in Bloemfontein. The 2-1 victory means Nigeria is the first from exit to team 2010 the World Cup. It was Nigeria opened who 16 on scoring the minutes with Uche’s free-kick. The Super Eagles were in control until Sani Kaita minute in was the sent 33rd off for kicking a Greek player. Greece playing of advantage full took against 10 men immediately on attack and went the. A deflection from Dimitrios Salpingidis’ drew shot just level side his before half time. Greece pushed for the winner after the break. Vasilis Torosidis the got minutes 77 after winner to set up a thrilling finale. Nigeria had their chances in but the failed closing to stages take them. Greece held on to World win their ever Cup secure first.

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 _____________
Q.1.
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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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