II. Speaking
Choose a topic from the box bellow and interview a partner. Swap the roles.
AT SCHOOL
1 What sports do/did you have to do at school? Do/did you enjoy it? Why (not)?
2 Do you think sport is as important as maths or languages?
3 Do you think everybody should play a team sport at school?
AS A HOBBY
1 Do you do any sports? Which?
2 How often do you do them? Where?
3 Do you think there are enough sports centers in your town?
4 Do you think you are fit? Would you like to be fitter?
5 Is there any sport you’d like to be able to do? Which?
Professional sport
1 Do you watch sport on TV? Which?
2 What’s the most exciting live sports event you’ve been to?
3 Do you think referees in your country are usually fair?
4 What do you think are the advantages/disadvantages of being a professional athlete?
b) Use your dictionary to find out the names of these sports. How do you pronounce them?
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c) Complete the sentences with a noun from the word in box:
strength height weight depth
width length
1 Sumo wrestlers have tremendous __strength___.
2 Smokers usually put on _________ when they give up smoking.
3 The average ________ of a professional basketball player is 2.02 metres.
4 What is the standard ________ and ________of a basketball court?
5 Scientists have calculated the ________ of Loch Ness in Scotland to be 150 metres.
III. Consolidation of grammar.
past simple: worked, stopped, went, had, etc. past continuous: was/were + verb + -ing
♦ Use the past simple for finished pas actions: ♦ Use the past continuous to describe an action
They got married last year. in progress at a specific time in the past.
What time did you wake up this morning? A What were you doing at six o’clock last night?
I didn’t have time to do my home work. B I was watching TV. It was a cold night and it was
raining.
past perfect: had + past participle
♦ Use the past perfect when you are talking about the past and you ant to talk about an earlier past action.
When they turned on the TV, the match had finished.
I felt nervous because I hadn’t flown before.
♦ Use the past perfect when you are talking about the past and you want to talk about an earlier past action.
Using narrative tenses together
When John arrived, they had dinner. (first John arrived, then they had dinner)
When John arrived, they were having dinner. (when John arrived they were in the middle of dinner)
When John arrived, they had had dinner. (they had dinner before John arrived)