Look at the pictures and name the sports. boxing

running (athletics)

football (soccer)

Listening – 1. Brainstorm NameSportsVocation

Listening – 2. Filling NameSportsVocation Pele Football player Ali BoxingBoxer Kip Keino Running Runner

Listen to Part 1 of the conversation and check what people listening to the programme have to do. 1Guess the names of famous sports personalities. 2Say what famous sports personalities did. 3Vote for the greatest sports personality ever. 4Ring the programme and speak to journalists. Answer: 3

Complete the facts below. Muhammad Ali Became world champion in (1) ______ Gold medal in (2) ________ Olympics Won(3) ________ out of 24 world championship fights 1964 Rome 22

Kip Keino Silver medal in (1) ________ metres Gold medal in (2) ________ metres Winning time (3) ________________ 5,000 1,500 3 minutes 34.9

Pele Age in his first world cup (1) ______ Number of world cups (2) ________ Total number of goals scored (3)_____ ,280

Listen to Part 2 of the conversation and answer the questions. 1 Why did Cassius Clay change his name? 2 What did he like writing? 3 How many goals did Pele score in his first World Cup? Because he became a Muslim. Poems about his fights. 2

4 How did he score in the 1972 World Cup final? 5 What happened to Kip Keino in the 10,000 metres race in Mexico? 6 Why was he almost late for the 1,500 metres race? With his head. Just before the end of the race, he had terrible pain and had to pull out of the race. His bus_________ in a traffic jam. got stuck

Work in pairs and answer the questions. 1 Who do the men and women vote for? 2 What reasons do they give for their decisions? They vote for their own greatest sports personalities of all the time. Outstanding achievements and highlighted Facts of their heroes.

Choose one of the following words to complete each sentence. enter, religion, teenager, traffic,favourite,fantastic,poet 1) He was born with the name Cassius Clay, but he changed this to Muhammad Ali when he changed his ___________ and became a Muslim. 2) Outside the ring, he was known as a ____. He wrote poems about his fights. 3) Although the doctor told him to stay in bed, he _________ for another race — the 1,500 metres. religion poet entered

enter, religion, teenager, traffic,favourite,fantastic,poet 4) But the bus got stuck in a ________ jam — so what did he do? 5) When he began playing football as a __________ he worked cleaning shoes. 6) They played Italy in the final and Pele scored a __________ goal with his head. Afterwards he said it was his __________ goal. traffic teenager fantastic favourite

EVERYDAY ENGLISH Choose the correct meanings. 1 Kip Keino is what the Olympic Games are all about means________. (a) Kip Keino represents the meaning of the Olympic Games (b) in every Olympic Games there are people like Kip Keino 2 The choice is up to you, means _______. (a) you must decide (b) someone must decide for you a a

3 That'snot the point means_______. (a) you are not talking about what is important (b) I don't understand what you are talking about 4 So what? means _______ (a) what happened next? (b) it isn't important. a b