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Unit 3 On the move
Starting out &
Understanding ideas
Starting out
Watch the video and answer the questions.
1 What sports are mentioned in the video?
2 Which one do you like best? Why?
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Watch the video and answer the questions.
1 What sports are mentioned in the video?
2 Which one do you like best? Why?
Football or soccer,cricket,rugby,tennis,and marathon.
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Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
1 Have you tried any of these sports?
2 Which would you most like to try? Why?
3 What benefits can you get from doing sports?
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Understanding ideas
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Talk about what you think these things represent in a football game.
1 A red card is a direct punishment for a player who has broken the rule seriously and is not allowed to play for the next game.
2 90 is the normal match time of football.
3 A “hat trick” means that a player scores three goals in a game in modern football.
4 A yellow card is a warning to a player who breaks the rule. If one player is sent off twice in one game, he is not allowed to play for the next game.
5 The flag is the corner flag in the football game.
6 C means captain.
7 The gloves are the goal keeper’s gloves.
8 11 means that a football team contains 11 people. Number 11 stands for winging forward.
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Read the passage and find out where modern football started.
Go through the passage and answer the questions.
(1)What was football known as over 2000 years ago?
(2)What did British and German soldiers do on Christmas Day 1914?
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Find out the author’s writing purpose.
These days, football is one of the most popular sports in the world. Given that Neil Armstrong wanted to take a football to the Moon, we could even say that it is also the most popular sport out of this world! The history of the game goes back over two thousand years to Ancient China. It was then known as cuju (kick ball), a game using a ball of animal skins with hair inside. Goals were hung in the air. Football as we know i