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LISTENING GAP-FILL

France and Uruguay _______________ World Cup’s first 0-0 draw on Friday night in Cape Town. It was a game of _______________ or drama. In fact, _______________ and not a good advertisement for World Cup football. The _______________ was when Uruguay substitute Lodeiro _______________ second yellow card with 10 minutes to go. Uruguay came closest to scoring in the first half when striker Diego Forlan’s shot _______________ French goalie. France had a chance _______________ deep into injury time but Thierry Henry _______________ into the Uruguayan wall. Both teams will _______________ their tactics if they _______________ to the next round. Uruguay face hosts South Africa on Wednesday, while France meet Mexico a day later.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

France and Uruguay yelapd out the World Cup’s first 0-0 draw on Friday night in Cape Town. It was a game of very little excitement or damar. In fact, it was ttyrpe boring and not a good advertisement for World Cup football. The only real nneticid was when Uruguay substitute Lodeiro was sent off for a oensdc yellow card with 10 minutes to go. Uruguay came closest to gicnros in the first half when riskter Diego Forlan’s shot was saved by the French gloeia. France had a chance to snatch victory deep into iurjny time but Thierry Henry smashed his strike into the Uruguayan wall. Both teams will need to rethink their cactist if they want to progress to the next ndour. Uruguay face toshs South Africa on Wednesday, while France meet Mexico a day later.

UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

France and Uruguay played out the World Cup’s first 0-0 draw Friday in Town on night Cape. It was a game of very little excitement or drama. In fact, it was pretty boring advertisement good a not and for World Cup football. when was incident real only The Uruguay substitute Lodeiro was sent off for a second yellow
with card go to minutes 10. Uruguay came closest to striker first scoring half in when the Diego Forlan’s shot was saved by the French goalie. France had a chance to victory snatch time injury into deep but Thierry Henry smashed into strike his wall Uruguayan the. Both teams need rethink tactics will to their if they want to progress to the next round. Uruguay face hosts South Africa on Wednesday, while France meet Mexico a day later.

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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