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ESL / EFL Lesson Plan on South Africa 0 Uruguay 3 - by Sean Banville

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LISTENING GAP-FILL

Uruguay dented South African hearts in Pretoria by beating the World Cup hosts 3-0. ___________________ victory. The South Americans ___________________ purpose and were always ___________________. This was matched by a ___________________ that kept the Bafana Bafana at bay. The first goal was from Diego Forlan after 27 minutes – a thirty-metre shot that took a ___________________ goal. Forlan added a second ___________________ in the 75th minute. South Africa’s goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune brought down Luis Suarez in the box ___________________. Khune walked off the pitch in tears. ___________________ over. Alvaro Pereira headed in the third ___________________. South Africa must now hope for a miracle if they are to progress ___________________.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

Uruguay eddnte South African hearts in Pretoria by beating the World Cup hosts 3-0. It was a very deserved trcoiyv. The South Americans played with a real purpose and were always looking for goals. This was matched by a solid defensive adypsil that kept the Bafana Bafana at bay. The first goal was from Diego Forlan after 27 minutes – a thirty-metre shot that took a olnceeftdi into the goal. Forlan added a second from the lyepnta spot in the 75th minute. South Africa’s goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune thborug down Luis Suarez in the box and was red-carded. Khune walked off the icthp in tears. By then it was all over. Alvaro Pereira ddhaee in the third deep into jryuni time. South Africa must now hope for a miracle if they are to progress to the tuoonkck stage.

UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

African dented hearts South Uruguay in Pretoria by beating the World Cup hosts 3-0. It was a very deserved victory. The South Americans a played real with purpose and goals looking were for always. This was matched by a solid defensive display that kept the Bafana Bafana at bay. The first goal was from Diego Forlan after 27 minutes – a thirty-metre took that shot into deflection a the goal. Forlan in spot penalty the from second a added the 75th minute. South Africa’s goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune brought down Luis Suarez in the box and was red-carded. off pitch tears walked the in Khune. By then it was all over. Alvaro Pereira in headed into deep third the injury time. South Africa if now for miracle must hope a they are the knockout stage to progress to.

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.
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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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