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LISTENING GAP-FILL

____________________ the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Chile ____________________ Group H with a hard-fought win over Switzerland. The match was marred ____________________ showed nine yellow cards (the first coming after one minute) and one red. The sending off of Switzerland’s Valon Behrami on 29 minutes looked like the match ____________________ Chile’s favour. Chile ____________________ of the extra man and attacked the Swiss goal non-stop. The Swiss defended ____________________ and broke the World Cup record for the longest amount of time without ____________________ - 567 minutes, stretching back to the 2006 Finals. Chile’s Mark Gonzalez changed that by heading in ____________________ with 15 minutes to go. The victory is Chile’s first ever World Cup win against European opposition.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

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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.

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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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