2010 FIFA World Cup

www.Breaking News English.com Ready-to-use ESL/EFL Lessons by Sean Banville 2010 FIFA World Cup “1,000 IDEAS & ACTIVITIES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS” The Breaking News English.com Resource Book http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/book.html Portugal 7 North Korea 0 http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/portugal_north-korea.html 21st June, 2010 THE ARTICLE From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/portugal_north-korea.html Portugal turned on the style in Cape Town to demolish North Korea 7-0. The first half was evenly matched. The Koreans had more of the possession but Raul Meireles scored in the 29th minute to give his team a 1-0 half-time lead. The Koreans probably thought they could get back into this game after the break. Portugal had different ideas. They put on a wonderful display of flowing, attacking football to bombard North Korea’s goal. Simao, Hugo Almeida and Tiago all found the net soon after the break to end the match as a contest. The Koreans never gave up but three more goals from Liedson, Chistiano Ronaldo and Tiago (his second) in the final ten minutes showed the difference in quality between the two teams. It was Ronaldo’s first international goal in two years. Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 2 LISTENING GAP FILL From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/portugal_north-korea.html Portugal ____________________ in Cape Town to demolish North Korea 7-0. The ____________________ matched. The Koreans had ____________________ but Raul Meireles scored in the 29th minute to give his team a 1-0 half-time lead. The Koreans probably thought they could ____________________ game after the break. Portugal had different ideas. They put on a wonderful ____________________, attacking football to bombard North Korea’s goal. Simao, Hugo Almeida and Tiago all ____________________ after the break to end the match as a contest. The Koreans ____________________ three more goals from Liedson, Cristiano Ronaldo and Tiago (his second) in the final ten minutes ____________________ in quality between the two teams. It was Ronaldo’s first international goal in two years. Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 3 CORRECT THE SPELLING From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/portugal_north-korea.html Portugal turned on the lsyet in Cape Town to demolish North Korea 7-0. The first half was yevenl matched. The Koreans had more of the ssonsopise but Raul Meireles decsor in the 29th minute to give his team a 1-0 half- time lead. The Koreans probably thought they could get back into this game after the erbak. Portugal had different ideas. They put on a wonderful slyipda of lgnwoif, attacking football to bombard North Korea’s goal. Simao, Hugo Almeida and Tiago all found the net soon after the break to end the camht as a noesctt. The Koreans never gave up but three more goals from Liedson, Chistiano Ronaldo and Tiago (his second) in the final ten minutes showed the difference in ulytqai between the two teams. It was Ronaldo’s first international goal in two years. Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 4 UNJUMBLE THE WORDS From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/portugal_north-korea.html turned Portugal in style the on Cape Town to demolish North Korea 7-0. The matched evenly was half first. The Koreans had but possession the of more Raul Meireles scored in the 29th minute to give his team a 1-0 half- time lead. could The probably they get Koreans thought back into this game after the break. Portugal had different ideas. They on wonderful of put a display flowing, North goal football bombard Korea’s attacking to. Simao, Hugo Almeida and Tiago all found the net soon after the the end to break contest a as match. The Koreans never gave up but three more goals from Liedson, Chistiano Ronaldo and Tiago (his second) in the ten final difference the showed minutes in quality between the two teams. It was Ronaldo’s first international goal in two years. Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 5 STUDENT WORLD CUP SURVEY From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/portugal_north-korea.html 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 _____________ _____________ _____________ Q.1. Q.2. Q.3. Q.4. Q.5. • 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. Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 6 WORLD CUP DISCUSSION STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B) 1. ________________________________________________________ 2. ________________________________________________________ 3. ________________________________________________________ 4. ________________________________________________________ 5. ________________________________________________________ 6. ________________________________________________________ Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLD CUP DISCUSSION STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A) 1. ________________________________________________________ 2. ________________________________________________________ 3. ________________________________________________________ 4. ________________________________________________________ 5. ________________________________________________________ 6. ________________________________________________________ Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 7 WRITING From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/portugal_north-korea.html Write about this game for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 8 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – 21st June, 2010 More free lessons at www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 9 .

Load more