The Beautiful Game STAGE 2

Before Chapter 9 WHILE READING Before Reading Open answers. (Points 2 and 4 are included in the chapter.) Activity 1 BEFORE READING 1 final 2 team 3 fan 4 rules 5 cup 6 star Chapter 9 WHILE READING 7 kick 8 goal 9 league 1 b 2 c 3 a 4 d

Activity 2 BEFORE READING Chapter 10 WHILE READING A nswers Open answers. Football has changed a lot in the last hundred years. Now, football is not played only in Europe and South Activity 3 BEFORE READING America – there are clubs in Africa and Asia too. Mil- Open answers. lions of Americans watched soccer for the first time in 1994, but most people in the USA still prefer American While Reading football. Perhaps there will be a ‘superleague’ for the

best European teams. If this happens, there will be activities Chapters 1 and 2 WHILE READING more money for the big clubs but less money for the 1 T small clubs. 2 F Millions of people watched the 2006 World Cup final on TV. 3 F Three of the European teams in the first World After Reading Cup travelled across the Atlantic in the same boat. Activity 1 AFTER READING 4 T 1, 9, 16: 5 T 2, 10, 14: Robert Hoyzer 6 F The referee adds ‘injury time’ at the end of the 3, 11, 17: Diego Maradona game if the game stopped when a player was hurt. 4, 7, 15: Zinedine Zidane 7 T 5, 8, 13: Pelé

Chapter 3 WHILE READING 6, 12, 18: King Richard the Second of England 1 whistle 2 throw-in 3 flag 4 foul Sample answers: 5 goalkeeper 6 striker Birgit Prinz was FIFA Woman Player of the Year three times and played for Germany in four World Cup Chapters 4 and 5 WHILE READING competitions, but she decided not to play for an Italian 1 g 2 c 3 d 4 b 5 e 6 h 7 a 8 f men’s team.

Chapter 6 WHILE READING Robert Hoyser was a German referee who sometimes 1 Lily Parr took money from clubs before matches, so he got into 2 trouble and had to talk to the police. 3 Sun Wen Diego Maradona was a short, strong player who scored 4 Birgit Prinz the ‘Goal of the Century’ in 1982 and was captain of 5 Argentina when they won the World Cup in 1986. Zinedine Zidane played for France for twelve years and Chapter 7 WHILE READING was in the French team that won the 1998 World Cup, 1 How old …? He was 17. but he sometimes got angry, and had to leave the field. 2 How many …? Five times [as of 2009]. Pelé was born into a poor family in Brazil and played 3 Who …? Maradona. in a World Cup when he was seventeen, but he works 4 Why …? Because he hit another player with his head. for UNICEF now, helping children everywhere. 5 How long …? Ten years. King Richard the Second of England did not like foot- 6 Where …? Italy. ball and said that all football must stop, but he was not

Chapter 8 WHILE READING able to stop people from playing football. 1 star players 2 television 3 Saturday afternoons 4 Russian 5 none

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