High Spirits 1: Culture Club

4 Culture club

‘My name’s Brandon and I’m 11. Football is ‘I’m Alicia and I’m 12 years old. My favourite sport my life. I play it all the time. I’m in my town’s is trampolining. I go to trampolining lessons every under-12s FA club. FA stands for ‘Football Wednesday at the sports centre in town after Association’. There’s a famous championship school. My lessons are from 4–5 p.m. Each lesson for professional football teams called the FA costs £4.50. We all take it in turns to practise our Cup. You can join a junior FA club when you routine. I love trampolining, and now we’ve got a are 5! We practise every Tuesday evening trampoline at home in the garden, too! At my club and Saturday morning at the football club in you can work for four different badges: yellow, town. Each training session is an hour and blue, green and red. Yellow is the ﬁrst badge. I’m a half. We also play a match every Sunday working for my blue badge at the moment. Next morning, and we always celebrate when year there’s an important competition in London we win! When I grow up, I want to be a for trampolining teams. We all want to take part footballer, of course!’ in it.’

Sports and free time 3 Completa le frasi con le informazioni contenute nei brani. 1 Leggi i brani e rispondi alle domande. 1 Every Sunday, Brandon Which of the children go to a sports club: . 1 at school? 2 When Brandon’s team wins, 2 in town? . 2 3 In Alicia’s garden Completa la tabella. . Sport Day(s) Session 4 Alicia wants to . Brandon 5 You kick and use your legs a lot when Alicia . Joshua 6 Geups are Kelly . 7 Kelly is ﬁt because . 8 Every term, at the dance club, they .

‘I’m Joshua and I’m 13 years old. I love tae ‘I’m Kelly and I love dancing. I’m 12 years old. I’m in the kwon do. It’s a martial art from Korea and hip hop dance club at my school. It’s a new after-school club, it’s a very popular sport in the UK, too. I and it’s very popular! do tae kwon do at school on Thursdays at It’s every Monday, for 50 minutes. Most of the people in the 3.30 p.m. The lessons are for an hour. class are girls, but there are five or six boys, too. I like hip hop Tae kwon do is very similar to karate. There’s because it’s very energetic, and Glossary a lot of kicking and it’s an important skill. Like it’s good for me! I never go to championship campionato all martial arts, tae kwon do is not about a gym, but the dance club is trampolining salto fighting, but about respect and control. like an exercise class. It’s a great su pedana elastica, There are ten different levels of tae kwon do, way to keep fit. At the club we trampolining called geups. You start at the 10th geup and learn routines to hip hop music routine passo, mossa you try to progress through the levels to the and other pop songs. And we badge distintivo di livello take part partecipare 1st geup. I’m on the 5th geup. That’s quite perform a show at the end of kick (v) dare calci good!’ every term for our parents keep fit tenersi in forma and friends.’ perform esibirsi (in) term trimestre

Presentazione orale Look! 4 Project Prepara una presentazione orale Per una tema di questo tipo, assicurati di sapere sulle attività preferite dai tuoi amici. Prima usare correttamente gli avverbi, le espressioni di frequenza (always, often, ecc.) e le preposizioni di cominciare, fai delle domande a tre amici di tempo in/at/on. Ad esempio: e annota le loro risposte. Parla per circa I often watch TV. un minuto. ES T I phone my friends every evening. t Quali sono le loro attività preferite nel tempo I play football three times a week. Karate club is at six o’clock / on Mondays / libero? in the evening. t Con quale frequenza/Quando fanno queste attività? t Sono membri di un’associazione o di un DVD 1 Puoi trovare ulteriori informazioni circolo? sulle attività del tempo libero nel Regno Unito nel Culture 4 del DVD e a pag. 37.