What's Up American Idioms
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S P O R T S |
W A R M - U P E X E R C I S E
Which sports do you like to watch?
Which sports do you like to participate in?
If you don't like sports, which other activities do you like, for example, dancing, reading?
Share your favorite sports or other activities with the class.
4 Sports
R E A D I NG SELECTION
DIRECTIONS: Read the following story silently. Then do the reading exercises that follow.
Go for It
Mark Spitz said he would win six gold medals in s w i m m i n g events1 at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. But it w a s n ' t that easy; Spitz was competing against some of the best athletes2
in the world. He w o n only two gold medals, not six, |
b u t those |
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two showed that he was good at the sport. |
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The people w h o rooted for Spitz at the |
'68 Games s a w h i m |
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again four years later. In the 1972 Olympic |
Games in |
M u n i c h , |
Spitz decided to go for the gold once more. Again, he stood out.
He won not six, but seven, gold medals: three as a m e m b e r of
U.S. teams and four in |
individual events. This m a d e Mark Spitz |
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the first athlete to w i n |
seven gold medals |
at the same |
Games . |
What is the five-ounce medal worth? |
The " g o l d " |
m e d a l is |
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really 92 percent silver, so it is not worth very m u c h m o n e y . But because of his Olympic success, Spitz appeared in m a n y tele-
vision commercials, so his gold medals were worth several million dollars.
1.Contests in a program.
2.People trained in sports requiring strength, skill, and speed.
