CULTURE Rugby

CULTURE Rugby I can understand a programme about the history of rugby. 7

Start thinking 4 Watch again. Match 1–8 with a–h to complete the Answer the questions. sentences. 1 What sports are popular in your country? 1 The Tudor period was 2 Which sportsmen and women from your country 2 The Victorians played football, cricket and are famous at the moment? tennis 3 What sports do you think British students play at 3 Rugby School started school? 4 Girls started to attend Rugby School 5 The first game of rugby was 6 A rugby match lasts Comprehension check 7 Teams play in the Rugby Union World Cup Watch the DVD. Choose the correct answers. 1 8 South Africa won the competition 1 Which ball game did people play during the Tudor period? a for 80 minutes. a football b cricket c tennis b in 2007. 2 When was the game of rugby invented? c every four years. a in the 1700s b in the 1800s c in the 1900s d in 1823. 3 Who won the Rugby Union World Cup in 2007? e in the nineteenth century. a Argentina b New Zealand c South Africa f in 1975. g about 500 years ago. 2 Watch again. Order the things you see 1–8. h in 1567. an international rugby team some goalposts 5 Watch again. Complete the summary. a try There are two different kinds of rugby: rugby a cricket match 1 and rugby league. In the first game, each some football players team has fifteen players, but in the second, a team an oval ball has only 2 players. In both games, players a trophy use an 3 ball. A 4 lasts eighty a goal kick minutes and the players have to win 5 . They can 6 a try by carrying the 3 Watch again. Write true or false. ball and touching the ground behind the goal line 1 Football was safe many years ago. with it. They can also kick a 7 by kicking 2 King Henry VIII didn’t want people to work all the ball through the top of the goalposts. The the time. 8 with the most points at the end of the 3 Rugby School is a boarding school for girls and game wins. boys. 4 The sport of rugby started at Rugby School.

5 William Webb Ellis didn’t stop when he caught the ball. 6 In rugby, you can’t throw the ball behind you.

28 Unit 7 DVD Activities PHOTOCOPIABLE © Oxford University Press Language check Extension Past simple: regular and irregular verbs Look at the pictures and answer the questions. • They invented some new sports, like rugby. • They won the competition for the second time. A

Adverbs of manner • Some of them played dangerously and had accidents. • In 2007, South Africa played well.

6 Complete the sentences using the affirmative or negative past simple form of the verbs in brackets. 1 During the Tudor period, people football. (play) 2 King Henry VIII people to play games. (want) B 3 The Victorians sport. (love) 4 In the popular ball game at Rugby, players the ball and stopped. (catch) 5 William Webb Ellis with the ball. (stop) 6 He with it. (run) 7 This the first game of rugby. (become) 8 William Webb Ellis his name to the Rugby Union World Cup trophy. (give)

7 Complete the sentences. Use the past form of the verbs in box A first and then an adverb formed Picture A from the adjectives in box B. • What sport are the people playing? • What are they wearing? A speak drive write run win sleep • How do you play this sport? • Do you play or watch this sport? B easy bad good dangerous nice quiet Picture B 1 Anna isn’t tired because she . • What sport are the people playing? 2 My brother crashed his car because he • What are they wearing? . • How do you play this sport? 3 I couldn’t hear the teacher because she • Do you play or watch this sport? . 4 Jack lost the race because he . 5 The teacher showed us Emma’s letter because she . 6 We had all our best players, so we .