“Sports” Reading & Vocabulary
Name: _____________________________________ Teacher’s Name: ______________________________ Date: _______________________________________ Objective: The students will be able to recognize and apply the lexical content related to sports. Objective of the unit: The students will be able to demonstrate, apply, identify and recognize habits, lexical content, adverbs of frequency and quantity, connectors, and other things related to the topic. Instructions: The students will read the text. After that, they will fill in the blanks using the words from the chart. Then, the students will read again the story but they will have complete. Next, the students will answer true or false according to the statements. Finally, the students will find the words in the wordsearch. Words from the reading.
I) Read the following text and fill in the blanks with the words from the chart. Competition Medal Olympic Cycling Triathlon Race Distance Athletes Swimming.
Triathlon is a sport that consists of three parts,
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and running.
________ race against each other. They swim first, cycle second and run last. Triathlon became an
Sport in 2000 at the Sydney Summer Olympics in Australia. In the
Olympics athletes swim for 1.5 km, cycle for 40 km and then run for 10 km. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics in China the women’s gold Emma Snowsill, who completed the
in triathlon was won by an Australian,
in just under two hours. Jan Frodeno from
Germany won the men’s gold medal; he finished the race in one hour and 48 minutes. A popular triathlon event is the Sprint Triathlon. It is a shorter race. It is half the ______ of the triathlon of the Olympics. In the Sprint Triathlon athletes swim for 750 metres, cycle for 20 km and run for 5 km. If you think that this is too short for you, you can try the Ironman Triathlon. In the Ironman __________ athletes swim for 3.86 km, cycle for 180 km and then run for 42.2 km! The fastest athletes can finish an Ironman Triathlon in just over eight hours!
II) Answer the following questions, put “T” if it is true or “F” if it is false. 1. Run is the first thing athletes do in a triathlon. _____ 2. Triathlon became an olympic game in 2008. _____ 3. In a Sprint Triathlon athletes swim 1.5 km. _____ 4. The Ironman Triathlon is longer than the Sprint Triathlon. _____ 5. The Sprint Triathlon is half the distance of an Olympic Triathlon. _____
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