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3 Sports stars

Who are your favorate sporting heroes or heroines ?

In pairs, use the key words to talk about them.

Key Words

positive: brilliant, fast, intelligent, skillful, strong

negative: awful, boring, over-rated, slow, terrible,

useless, weak

Example

A: In my opinion, Ronaldo is a brilliant player. He is very fast and skillful.

B: I don’t agree. I think he is over-rated.

Weightlifting

gymnastics

football

shooting

fast

brilliant

strong

skillful

Before reading

How much do you know about tennis ?

World tennis events

Wimbledon

French Open

Australian Open

the U.S. Open

the Grand Slam Cup

Chi open

Read to learn

Read the passage quickly

and suggest a title for the text.

Champion sisters

The William sister’s champions in world events

Wimbledon

the final of French Open

the quarterfinals of the Australian Open single and double

semifinal

the U.S. Open

the Grand Slam Cup

Background introduction

The American sisters who are the best tennis players in the world are the Williams Sisters .Venus and her 15-month younger sister, Serena are both top-ranked players, Venus in the Top Ten and Serena in the Top 50 by 1998 and moving ahead. Venus won the Wimbledon Championship in two-thousand and two-thousand-one. She also won the United States Open championship both of those years. And the two sisters also won the women’s doubles match at Wimbledon earlier this month.

Extra information about the sisters:

The American sisters who are the best tennis players in the world are the Williams Sisters .Venus and her 15-month younger sister, Serena are both top-ranked players, Venus in the Top Ten and Serena in the Top 50 by 1998 and moving ahead. Venus won the Wimbledon Championship in two-thousand and two-thousand-one. She also won the United States Open championship both of those years. And the two sisters also won the women’s doubles match at Wimbledon earlier this month.

He then told Venus and Serena that one day they would compete for the championship of professional tennis at Wimbledon.

Off the court, the sisters are like teenagers everywhere, giggling about boys and talking about clothes and movies. The sisters have remained extremely close, even through competitions and are building a house not far from their parents to move into late 1999.

Guess the meaning of the following key words and check them while reading.

Key Words

look back, train, be strict with,

compete against, express an interest in, come to an end, astonishing, improve, cause, make progress, leave… behind

Read the article again and answer the questions.

1 Why are the sisters unusual?

2 What kind of background are they from?

3 Who helped them to succeed?

4 How do the two sisters get on at home?

They lived in a poor area of California, full of

violence and drugs.

Their father, Richard.

They get on very well.

They played each other in the final of a tennis

tournament.

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Which of the following shows the right order of what happened to the sisters?

a. Venus first played in a big tournament b. Richard started to train them. c. The sisters and their family moved to a safer area.

d. The sisters were practicing on a local tennis court and they had to protect them from bullets.

e. Serena won the women’s singles champion at Wimbledon.

A. b, c, d, a, e B. c, b, d, a, e,

C. b, d, c, a, e D. c, b, d, e, a

Fill in the blanks with the words or expressions in the passage.

1.He likes football while his younger brother ______________________ in basketball.

2. He is a strict teacher, and is always very ___________ his students.

3. The year has _______________; a new year is coming.

4. He has _____ so great __________ in his studies that he was praised by the teacher.

expresses a keen interest

strict with

come to an end

made

progress

11. We couldn’t get him to _____________his war experience.

12.The meeting ______________ at last.

13. Let’s hope the weather __________ before Sunday.

Compete with/ against, compete for,

Competition, competitor, competitive.

1.The two teams compete for the championship.

2. He’s going to compete against/with his old rival in the second round.

speak about

came to an end

improves

Grammar

Study the two groups of sentences from the text. Work out the differences in pairs.

a) Since then, she has won Wimbledon and the US Open twice.

b) Has tennis ever caused problems between the sisters?

a) The sisters’ father, Richard, started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children.

b) The first time Venus played in a big tournament was in 1996.

PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE

Grammar Practice

10 Complete the interview with an English footballer.

keys:

1) played

2) Did you like

3) didn’t enjoy

4) have you scored

5) haven’t played

6) have joined

7) bought

11 Complete the sentences with already, ever, never, yet.

keys:

1)already

2) yet

3) ever

4) never

5) yet

6) ever/never