Sports

Listen and do the tasks:

1. Did Diego Garcia play well last year?           [Yes, No, Not stand]

2. Was the weather in France nice today?           [Yes, No, Not stand]

3. Are foreign players playing in the golf tournament?           [Yes, No, Not stand]

4. You bet $10 on a victory for Pittsburgh. Are you happy today?           [Yes, No, Not stand]

Read the text and choose from the sentences (A–F) the one which fi ts each gap. One sentence is extra.:

Last weekend I watched a brilliant sports event at Wembley stadium. There was a huge crowd of 45,619 people in the stadium with me and it was a match between England and Germany! (1)   [A, B, C, D, E, F] However, it wasn’t the normal type of match that we see every Saturday on TV. This was the final of the European Women’s Football Championship.

Women’s football used to be very popular in England at the end of the nineteenth century and in the beginning the matches attracted more spectators than the men’s matches did. However, this all changed in 1921. (2)   [A, B, C, D, E, F] The reason they gave was that football was ‘unsuitable’ for women because it wasn’t good for their health! Some people thought that the real reason was because the men were jealous of the popularity of the women’s game!

Whatever the reason, women’s football nearly disappeared completely. (3)   [A, B, C, D, E, F] However, there wasn’t much money given to develop the game and even in 1993 there were only eighty girls’ teams, no professional players and not much training.

The Football Association then started to help develop the game and women’s football has come a long way in the last twenty years. Now it is the most popular female team sport in England and there are lots and lots of competitions for professional players. (4)   [A, B, C, D, E, F] This can be as low as £20,000 a year and it’s ridiculous when you compare it to professional men footballers’ enormous salaries! Many of the England national team have to have a part time job too. Last weekend England’s women lost to Germany. (5)   [A, B, C, D, E, F] But they will have another chance in the World Cup next year.

Choose the correct tense form or structure.

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