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LISTENING GAP-FILL

___________________ between two of the tournament’s dark horses. The first half was entertaining with lots of ___________________. Unfortunately, none of the attractive play ___________________. Ghana did a lot of attacking but found it difficult to get past Serbia’s ___________________. Serbia failed to take their chances. They tried to get the ball ___________________ 2-metre-tall striker Nikola Zigic but their ___________________. He was substituted after 70 minutes. The second half followed a similar ___________________. Ghana looked more likely to score but ___________________ Serbia’s defenders. All that changed ___________________ go. Serbian substitute Kuzmanovic handled in his own area to give Ghana a penalty. Ghana’s Gyan sent the keeper the ___________________ his team’s win.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

An interesting chlas between two of the tournament’s dark hsreso. The first half was entertaining with lots of end to end football. Unfortunately, none of the attractive play tluesred in a goal. Ghana did a lot of attacking but found it difficult to get past Serbia’s rock-doisl defense. Serbia failed to take their cecahsn. They tried to get the ball in the air to their 2-metre-tall striker Nikola Zigic but their fesrotf rarely worked. He was substituted after 70 minutes. The second half followed a similar netrpta to the first. Ghana looked more likely to score but could not get past Serbia’s dneefdrse. All that changed with six minutes to go. Serbian substitute Kuzmanovic ahdednl in his own area to give Ghana a penalty. Ghana’s Gyan sent the keeper the rogwn way to seal his team’s win.

UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

clash interesting An between two of the tournament’s dark horses. first entertaining half The was with lots of end to end football. Unfortunately, none of the attractive play resulted in a goal. did a lot of attacking Ghana but found it difficult to get past Serbia’s rock-solid defense. failed Serbia chances their take to. They tried to get the ball in the air to their 2-metre-tall striker Nikola Zigic but efforts rarely worked their. He was substituted after 70 minutes. The second half a followed the to pattern similar first. Ghana looked score could more to but not likely get past Serbia’s defenders. changed All with that six minutes to go. Serbian substitute Kuzmanovic handled in Ghana his area give a own to penalty. Ghana’s Gyan sent the keeper way wrong the his seal to team’s win.

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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Q.4.
Q.5.

• 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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