Wednesday, October 15

1B. Sports

Activity 1 # Introduction: Rafa Nadal in Wimbledon, day 9. Go ahead and watch it again at www.wimbledon.org.

Activity 2 # Reading: "Famous (cheating) moments in sport" (p. 8). Useful vocabulary: score a goal, crowd, referee, gold medal.

Activity 3 # Past simple, Past continuous, Past perfect (p.130) - remember the story and elicit when each of the verbal tenses above is used:
"Once upon a time, a girl had a horse. While the girl was washing the dishes, the horse escaped. When the girl got to the farm, the horse had already escaped."

Activity 4 # Speaking: think and tell an anecdote about ... a time you cheated in an exam / a really exciting sports event you saw / a time you had an accident or sports injury / a time you saw a celebrity.