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Date: Dec 24, 2005
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THE ARTICLEThe former Argentinian football star Diego Maradona has flown home to Buenos Aires following his arrest at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport. Police detained the legendary soccer wizard after he broke down an airport door in the VIP lounge. He had been late for check-in. When ground staff told him he could not board the flight because it was ready for take-off, he became irate, flew into a rage and started to “destroy” whatever was in his vicinity. Police interrogated him for several hours and he was released after Argentine president Nestor Kirchner ordered diplomats in Brazil to intervene on his behalf. Former Argentine player and travel companion Alejandro Mancuso said Maradona’s rage was “logical and spontaneous” because staff “shut the door in our faces”. Maradona has overcome cocaine and alcohol addiction since retiring from professional football in 1997, and has also had repeated gun related run-ins with the police. Mr. Mancuso denied suggestions appearing in the Brazilian press that Maradona’s tantrum had been fueled by alcohol. He is widely acknowledged as being one of the best, if not the best, players of all time, helping his country capture the 1986 World Cup in Italy. He is revered and enjoys cult status in much of Latin America, where he counts presidents Castro of Cuba and Chavez of Venezuela as his close friends. He led protests against U.S. President George W. Bush at a regional summit in Argentina in November. Maradona has since resolved the fracas at the airport by offering to pay for the damage to the departure lounge door. WARM-UPS1. MARADONA SEARCH: Talk to as many other students as you can to find out what they know about Maradona. After you have talked to lots of students, sit down with your partner(s) and share your information. Tell each other what you thought was interesting or surprising. Would you like to meet Maradona? 2. AIRPORTS: What are the things you least like about airports and flying? Talk about the things below with your partner(s). How could they be improved?
3. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. For more conversation, change topics and partners frequently. 4. STAY CALM: In pairs / groups, put the following in order of the best thing to do to resolve a problem with a company employee. Is your order different from what you would do first (or second, third…)? Have you done any of the things below?
5. GETTING ANGRY: In pairs / groups, discuss how the situations below might make you angry. What are your experiences of getting angry in these situations?
6. RAGE: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word “rage”. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words in the column on the right into the gaps in the text. Maradona breaks airport door in anger
LISTENINGListen and fill in the spaces. Maradona breaks airport door in angerThe former Argentinian football star Diego Maradona has flown home to Buenos Aires __________ his arrest at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport. Police __________ the legendary soccer wizard after he broke down an airport door in the VIP lounge. He had been late for check-in. When ground staff told him he could not board the flight because it was ready for take-off, he became ______, flew into a rage and started to “destroy” whatever was in his _________. Police interrogated him for several hours and he was released after Argentine president Nestor Kirchner ordered diplomats in Brazil to __________ on his behalf. Former Argentine player and travel companion Alejandro Mancuso said Maradona’s rage was “logical and _____________” because staff “shut the door in our faces”. Maradona has _________ cocaine and alcohol addiction since retiring from professional football in 1997, and has also had repeated gun related ________ with the police. Mr. Mancuso denied suggestions appearing in the Brazilian press that Maradona’s _________ had been _________ by alcohol. He is widely acknowledged as being one of the best, if not the best, players of all time, helping his country capture the 1986 World Cup in Italy. He is _________ and enjoys cult status in much of Latin America, where he counts presidents Castro of Cuba and Chavez of Venezuela as his close friends. He _____ protests against U.S. President George W. Bush at a regional summit in Argentina in November. Maradona has since resolved the _________ at the airport by offering to pay for the damage to the departure lounge door. AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘fly’ and ‘rage’.
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. STUDENT “ANGER” SURVEY: In pairs / groups, write down questions about being angry and being at airports or other transport hubs.
6. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall exactly how these were used in the text:
DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
AFTER DISCUSSION: Join another partner / group and tell them what you talked about.
SPEAKINGIRRITATING THINGS: In pairs / groups, talk about how angry the following situations might make you. Put one of these numbers in the appropriate boxes:
Change partners and tell you new partner(s) the interesting or funny things your old partner(s) said. 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 more information on Diego Maradona. Share your findings with your class in the next lesson. Did you all find out similar things? 3. ANGER: Write a short essay about an incident in your life that made you very, very angry. Show what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all write about similar things? 4. EYEWITNESS: Imagine you were in the VIP lounge when Maradona flew into a rage. Write an eyewitness account of what you saw. Show what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Did everyone write about similar things? ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Maradona breaks airport door in angerThe former Argentinian football star Diego Maradona has flown home to Buenos Aires following his arrest at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport. Police detained the legendary soccer wizard after he broke down an airport door in the VIP lounge. He had been late for check-in. When ground staff told him he could not board the flight because it was ready for take-off, he became irate, flew into a rage and started to “destroy” whatever was in his vicinity. Police interrogated him for several hours and he was released after Argentine president Nestor Kirchner ordered diplomats in Brazil to intervene on his behalf. Former Argentine player and travel companion Alejandro Mancuso said Maradona’s rage was “logical and spontaneous” because staff “shut the door in our faces”. Maradona has overcome cocaine and alcohol addiction since retiring from professional football in 1997, and has also had repeated gun related run-ins with the police. Mr. Mancuso denied suggestions appearing in the Brazilian press that Maradona’s tantrum had been fueled by alcohol. He is widely acknowledged as being one of the best, if not the best, players of all time, helping his country capture the 1986 World Cup in Italy. He is revered and enjoys cult status in much of Latin America, where he counts presidents Castro of Cuba and Chavez of Venezuela as his close friends. He led protests against U.S. President George W. Bush at a regional summit in Argentina in November. Maradona has since resolved the fracas at the airport by offering to pay for the damage to the departure lounge door.
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