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Tiger Woods Takes Break to Repair His LifeThe Tiger Woods saga continues following more details of his string of affairs. He has just announced on his website that he is “taking a hiatus from golf” and does not know when he will return. At the same time, his sponsors are pulling back from supporting him. They are worried his now less-than-squeaky-clean image will no longer help sell their products. The global management consulting company Accenture has removed some of its images of Woods from its website. Experts believe Accenture may find it difficult to keep its “Go on, be a Tiger” slogan following revelations about Woods’ many girlfriends. It seems Nike, one of Woods’ biggest sponsors, is sticking with their man, for now.
Woods’ life and career turned upside down on November 27 when he had a minor car accident near his home. He needed hospital treatment for cuts to his face. Newspapers soon reported his wife chased the car and hit it with a golf club. The media followed this with speculation about a number of extramarital affairs Woods had. More than ten women are currently telling newspapers the story of their relationship with him. The golfing great said: "It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try…After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father and person."
WARM-UPS1. TIGER WOODS: Walk around the class and talk to other students about Tiger Woods. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. SPONSORSHIP: What companies would be best sponsors of these people? Complete this table with your partners. Change partners and share what you heard.
4. SCANDAL: Students A strongly believe Tiger Woods will come back from this scandal much stronger; Students B strongly believe this is the end of Tiger. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. IMAGE: How much damage can these things cause someone’s image? Rank them and share your rankings with your partner. The worst thing at the top. Change partners and share your ratings again.
6. DAMAGE: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘damage’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING Listen and fill in the gapsThe Tiger Woods saga continues following more ___________________ of affairs. He has just announced on his website that he is “taking a hiatus from golf” and does ___________________ will return. At the same time, his sponsors are pulling back from supporting him. They are worried his now less-___________________ image will no longer help sell their products. The global management consulting company Accenture has removed ___________________ of Woods from its website. Experts believe Accenture may find it ___________________ its “Go on, be a Tiger” slogan following revelations about Woods’ many girlfriends. It seems Nike, one of Woods’ biggest sponsors, ___________________ man, for now. Woods’ life and career ___________________ on November 27 when he had a minor car accident near his home. He needed ___________________ cuts to his face. Newspapers soon reported his wife chased the car and hit it with a golf club. The media followed this ___________________ a number of extramarital affairs Woods had. More then ten women ___________________ newspapers the story of their relationship with him. The golfing great said: "It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try…After ___________________, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my ___________________ a better husband, father and person." AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘upside’ and ‘down’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
STUDENT TIGER WOODS SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about Tiger Woods 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.
TIGER WOODS DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGE MULTIPLE CHOICEThe Tiger Woods saga continues (1) ____ more details of his (2) ____ of affairs. He has just announced on his website that he is “taking a hiatus from golf” and does not know when he will return. At the same time, his sponsors are pulling back (3) ____ supporting him. They are worried his now (4) ____ -than-squeaky-clean image will no longer help sell their products. The global management consulting company Accenture has removed some of its images of Woods from its website. Experts believe Accenture may (5) ____ it difficult to keep its “Go on, be a Tiger” slogan following revelations about Woods’ many girlfriends. It seems Nike, one of Woods’ biggest sponsors, is (6) ____ with their man, for now. Woods’ life and career turned upside (7) ____ on November 27 when he had a minor car accident near his home. He needed hospital (8) ____ for cuts to his face. Newspapers soon reported his wife chased the car and hit it with a golf club. The media followed this with speculation about a (9) ____ of extramarital affairs Woods had. More then ten women are currently telling newspapers the story of their relationship with him. The golfing (10) ____ said: "It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try…After much (11) ____ searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my (12) ____ on being a better husband, father and person." Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
WRITINGWrite about Tiger Woods for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. 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. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about Tiger Woods. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. TIGER WOODS: Make a poster about Tiger Woods and his life. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. DAMAGE: Write a magazine article about how to limit the damage Tiger Woods has done to his life. Include imaginary interviews with Tiger and his wife. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). 5. LETTER: Write a letter to Tiger Woods. Ask him three questions about the scandal. Give him three pieces of advice on what he can do to repair the damage. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Tiger Woods takes break to repair his lifeThe Tiger Woods saga continues following more details of his string of affairs. He has just announced on his website that he is “taking a hiatus from golf” and does not know when he will return. At the same time, his sponsors are pulling back from supporting him. They are worried his now less-than-squeaky-clean image will no longer help sell their products. The global management consulting company Accenture has removed some of its images of Woods from its website. Experts believe Accenture may find it difficult to keep its “Go on, be a Tiger” slogan following revelations about Woods’ many girlfriends. It seems Nike, one of Woods’ biggest sponsors, is sticking with their man, for now. Woods’ life and career turned upside down on November 27 when he had a minor car accident near his home. He needed hospital treatment for cuts to his face. Newspapers soon reported his wife chased the car and hit it with a golf club. The media followed this with speculation about a number of extramarital affairs Woods had. More then ten women are currently telling newspapers the story of their relationship with him. The golfing great said: "It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try…After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father and person." LANGUAGE WORK
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