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In this unit you will:
learn sports vocabulary and sports action
verbs
practise using can, must and adverbs of
manner and degree
This will help you to:
read an FAQ page and a sports article
listen to and understand conversations
talk about abilities and explain a game
write a description of a sport or game
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Look at the pictures. Do you know
the names of the athletes? What
other information do you know
about them?
Real Athletes
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Do you like sport?
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1. Im not very tall. Can I play basketball?
2. Can women lift weights without getting big muscles?
3. Is walking a sport?
4. Is judo a violent sport?
LINKS FAQ ARCHIVE NEWS HOME
12. Answer the questions.
1. Why is it good to lift light weights?
2. In which famous competition can race walkers
compete?
3. How much walking does the text recommend?
4. Can you win a judo match by kicking someone?
5. How much physical activity do doctors recommend
for teenagers?
13. Judo originally comes from Japan. Do you know
which country basketball comes from?
Reading >> An FAQ Page
9. Read the questions on the Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) page above. What do you think
the answers are?
10. Now read the answers to the questions. How
many of your answers are correct?
11. Why does the FAQ page mention the following?
1. the number 1.65
2. the NBA
3. race walking
4. the gentle way
Vocabulary >> Sports

1. Look at the advert above for the Sycamore Sports
Centre. Listen and repeat the sports in green.
Which of the sports have got similar names in
your language?
2. Which sports do you usually do ?
1. indoors 3. alone
2. outdoors 4. in teams
3. Copy and complete the word maps with the
sports in the advert.
Listening and Speaking

6. Miranda phones the Sycamore Sports Centre. Listen
to her phone conversation. Which sports does she
mention?
7. The sentences below are false. Listen again and
correct the sentences.
1. Miranda is 16 years old.
2. The basketball team practise on Monday and
Wednesday.
3. Miranda likes playing basketball.
4. Mirandas sister wants to take judo lessons.
5. The judo lessons begin at six oclock.
6. Alan has got a French lesson on Tuesday.
8. Which sports do you and your family do? Which
sports do you watch?
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4. Which other sports do you know in English? Add
them to the word maps in Exercise 3.
5. Listen and repeat the verbs below. Then match the
verbs to the correct sports in the advert.
throw swim run ski surf jump hit kick lift
Workbook, page 41
Earl Boykins
Then come to the new
Sycamore
Sports Centre
The Sycamore Sports Centre, 22 Oak Street
Call 020 7096 4025 for more information.
There are many activities for teens at the sports centre:
judo lessons tennis lessons
gymnastics lessons weightlifting lessons
swimming lessons
Weve also got:
a football team a cycling club
a basketball team a skiing club
a running club a surfing club
judo
Answers
1. Of course you can play basketball. Earl Boykins is only 1.65 metres tall but he is a
professional basketball player, with experience in the NBA and at Virtus Bologna.
2. Yes, they can. Male weightlifters get big muscles for two reasons:
1. They lift very heavy weights.
2. They have got large amounts of the male hormone testosterone in their bodies.
But women havent got much testosterone, so they cant usually develop very big
muscles like men. Lifting light weights doesnt give women big muscles, only strong ones.
3. Yes, it is. In fact, race walking is an Olympic sport. Race walkers walk very quickly, but
regular walking is good for you, too. You can change your life with just 30 minutes of
walking a day, and you dont need expensive equipment to do it!
4. No, it isnt. Actually, the meaning of the word judo is the gentle way. To win a judo
match, an athlete must throw his or her opponent onto the floor or hold the opponent
on the floor. But the athlete mustnt hit or kick the opponent during the match.
Answer, page 70
Did you know?
Doctors recommend 60 minutes
a day of physical activity for
children and teenagers. How
much exercise do you get?
do go
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Affirmative
I / You / He / She / It /
We / You / They
must run.
Negative
I / You / He / She / It /
We / You / They
mustnt run.
must
8. We use must to talk about obligation and mustnt
to talk about prohibition. Read the sentences
below. Which one describes basketball? Which
one describes football?
1. You must kick the ball.
2. You mustnt kick the ball.
9. Read the chart below. Does the form change for
different pronouns?
13. Choose the correct answers to find out about an
unusual Scottish sport.
5. Listen and check your answers to Exercise 4.
6. Copy and complete the questions and answers with
the correct form of can. Then match the questions
to the answers.
Questions
1. you run fast?
2. your parents play tennis?
3. Wheres my basketball? you see it?
4. you go surfing today?
5. the children go swimming now?
6. Excuse me. How we join the cycling club?
Answers
a. No, I find it!
b. Yes, I , but Im tired today.
c. Yes, they . Theyre very good at it.
d. No, they . The waters very cold!
e. You come to the sports centre on Monday at 5.00.
f. Yes, I , because its the summer holiday.
7. Complete the descriptions with the correct form
of can and the verbs in brackets. Then match the
descriptions to the animals in the photos below.
can
1. We use can to talk about ability and possibility.
Read the sentences below. Which one describes
ability? Which one describes possibility?
1. James cant walk, but he can swim.
2. Laura can go surfing now. It isnt raining.
2. Read the chart below. Does the form change for
different pronouns?
11. Listen and check your answers to Exercise 10.
12. Look at the photos of a very unusual sport
noodling. Write sentences about this sport.
Use must and mustnt and the words below.

catch a catfish be in the water use your hands
use any equipment be strong drop the fish
4. What do you think Usain Bolt can do?
Write sentences with can or cant and
the words below.
1. dance
2. speak / English
3. read / books in Russian
4. run / 100 metres / in 9.58 seconds
5. play / the violin
1. He can lift weights.
1. Students be late for class.
2. You always wear judo uniforms.
3. Your judo uniforms always be clean.
4. You wear shoes during the lesson.
5. A doctor check you before you join the class.
6. Remember! Judo isnt a violent sport. You hit
or kick your opponent.
10. Copy and complete the rules for a judo class with
must or mustnt.
You must catch a catfish.
14. Discuss each of the following with a partner.
Find at least three similarities between you.
1. things you can do
2. things you cant do
3. things you must do at home
4. things you mustnt do at school
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Workbook, page 42
3. What can the people in the pictures do? Write
sentences using the words below.

play tennis lift weights do gymnastics
run play basketball swim
B. Usain Bolt
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(run) very fast, but
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he (win)
a race against this amazing animal? No, he
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This animal
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(run) 120 kilometres an hour. It
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(go) from zero to 112 kilometres an hour in
three seconds. Even a Ferrari
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(not go) that fast!
Some of the best athletes in the world are animals!

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you (guess) which animals they are?
A.

It
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(lift) very heavy objects. The objects are
sometimes 20 times its own weight! Of course,
human weightlifters
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(not do) that!
Affirmative
I / You / He / She / It /
We / You / They
can surf.
Negative
I / You / He / She / It /
We / You / They
cant surf.
Interrogative Can
I / you / he / she / it /
we / you / they
surf?
Short Answers Yes, I can. / No, we cant.
Grammar Appendix,
Workbook, page 98
Answers, page 70
Grammar Appendix,
Workbook, page 98
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you (jump)? Some athletes
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(jump) more than 1.5 metres high with the
help of special equipment. But this quiet animal
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(do) it without any equipment at all.
Rules for Judo Class
cheetah ant cow
Haggis
Hurling
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Can / Cant you throw objects
very far? Then you
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can /
mustnt be in the World Haggis
Hurling Championship. To play
this unusual sport, you
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must /
cant first cook haggis. Haggis
is a traditional Scottish food
from different parts of a sheep.
The haggis
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must / mustnt be
between 500 grams to one kilo.
It
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can / mustnt be hot when
you throw it, so prepare it the
day before the competition. In
the competition, people
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must /
cant throw their haggis very
carefully, because the haggis
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must / mustnt break. The
world record for haggis throwing
is 55.89 metres. So, what do you
think? How far
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can / cant you
throw a haggis?
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Racing Car Driving
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Reading >> A Sports Article
1. Read the sports article above. Which parts of
the body does it mention?
2. True or false? Correct the false sentences.
1. Danica Patrick is famous because she is the first
woman to be a racing car driver.
2. The article shows how difficult it is to be a
professional racing car driver.
3. Racing car drivers wear a helmet at home to practise
having a helmet on their head.
4. Racing car drivers must develop their stomach
muscles because they cant eat for many hours.
5. Racing car drivers go cycling or running to develop
their leg muscles.
3. Find the following information in the article.
1. the name of a famous car race
2. two types of sports equipment
3. names of two computer games
2. Copy and complete the sentences with the adverb
form of the adjectives below.

bad careful quiet
1. My parents are sleeping. Speak .
2. There are many trees. Lisa must ski .
3. Ben mustnt dance in the competition. He dances .
3. Write true sentences about the people below.
Use the adverb form of the adjectives.

Venus and Serena Williams Pau and Marc Gasol
Plcido Domingo Usain Bolt Lionel Messi
1. can / run / very / fast
Usain Bolt can run very fast.
2. can / play / tennis / very / good
3. can / kick / a football / hard
4. can / sing / beautiful
5. can / jump / quite / high
4. Tell your partner about activities you can or cant
do. Use the adverbs below.

very well quite quickly not at all well beautifully
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Adverbs of Manner and Degree
1. We use adverbs to describe actions. Read the
chart below and answer the questions.
1. What ending do we usually add to an adjective to
form an adverb of manner?
2. Where does an adverb of degree belong in a
sentence before or after an adverb of manner?
Listening
4. Listen to Peter and Claire talking about female
racing car drivers. What is similar about Peter and
Danica Patrick?
5. Copy the sentences into your notebook. Then
listen again and complete the sentences.
1. Peter is surprised to hear about female .
2. According to Peter, small people control a car
well.
3. Danica Patrick is a racing car driver and a , too.
4. Danica goes running .
5. She has , cereal and peanut butter for breakfast.
6. Danica eats frequently because she needs .
Workbook, page 43
Adverbs of Degree
He drives quite carefully. She works very hard.
She doesnt play tennis at all well.
Grammar Appendix,
Workbook, page 99
Adverbs of Manner
Regular: quick quickly careful carefully bad badly
Racing car drivers drive quickly and carefully.
Irregular: good well hard hard fast fast high high
Racing car drivers drive fast!
Putting It Together 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Intro
5. Choose the correct answers to complete
the text about a famous athlete.
6. Correct the mistakes in bold to find out about
another special athlete.
1.
Do you know / You know / Have you got
the athlete in the picture? He is strong and
fast. He jumps
2.
good / very / high like a
superhero and he
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can / must / mustnt do
amazing things with a basketball. His name
is Kobe Bryant, and he is one of the best
players in
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a / the / some history of the
NBA. It
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has got / havent got / isnt
surprising, because Kobe
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have got /
has got / hasnt got basketball in his genes.
His father is an ex-basketball player and
ex-coach for US and Italian
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teams /
teams / teams. So, Kobe
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speak /
speaks / is speaking Italian (and he also
speaks Spanish). He
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has got / love / loves
football, too. He is a big fan of FC Barcelona.
Maybe Kobe
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watch / watches /
is watching them on television right now!
Sometimes Michael Phelps seems like
1.
an superhero,
not a human athlete.
2.
How much medals can one man
win? Phelps
3.
have got 14 Olympic gold medals and
37 world records in swimming.
4.
There isnt any other
athletes in the world like him. What is his secret? Of
course, he always
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is working hard. Also, Phelps has
got the perfect type of body for
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some swimmer
and he
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use his body to do fantastic things! Answers, page 70
Meet Danica Patrick from the USA. Danica is the first woman to win an Indy car
race one of the top races in the world. Danica loves her profession and she
works very hard. Have a look at the work of a professional racing car driver.
You must have very strong arm muscles to
control a racing car, so drivers usually lift
weights. They also do hundreds of stomach
exercises. Stomach muscles help drivers stay
in their seats when the car is moving very fast.
Racing cars turn very quickly on the racetrack. Drivers
must have strong neck muscles so they can hold up their
heads when they turn their car. Some drivers wear helmets
with weights at home to make their neck muscles strong.
Imagine watching TV with a heavy helmet on your head!
There are many cars on the racetrack. A driver must get in
front of the other cars to win a race. Drivers must look at
the track very quickly to find a place without cars. Racing
car drivers often use computer games like Forza
Motorsport 2 and Gran Turismo 5 to practise doing this.
It looks quite easy to stop the car with the
brakes, but its like moving 130 kilos of
weights with your feet! You cant do this
without very strong leg muscles, so racing
car drivers run or go cycling. Danica
Patrick runs for an hour every day.
An NBA Star
Michael Phelps
racetrack
seat
brakes
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Vocabulary >> Sports Action Verbs
1. Look at the menu of computer games below.
Listen and repeat the sports action verbs in blue.
Which computer game would you choose to play?
Speaking
6. Match the questions in A about different computer games to the answers in B.
Then practise the mini-dialogues with a partner.
Listening
4. Listen to Paul and Rose talking about a
computer game. Look at the screens below.
Which screens are from their game?
2. Look at the menu in Exercise 1 again. Which of the
actions can you do in real life? Which can your
parents do?
3. The verbs in bold are in the wrong sentences.
Move the verbs to the correct sentences.
1. You can fly a car around town.
2. You can sail a bike on the street.
3. You can drive apples with your hands.
4. You can climb a tennis match.
5. You can juggle a boat.
6. You can rescue a mountain.
7. You can ride an aeroplane.
8. You can win a person from a dangerous animal.
5. Listen again. Choose the correct answers.
1. What can you do in the game?
a. You can drive a car.
b. You can fly an aeroplane.
2. What are the rules of the bike race?
a. You must ride on the green line.
b. You must ride on the yellow line.
3. What are the rules of the swimming race?
a. You must attack all the fish.
b. You mustnt swim near the fish.
4. How do you win the swimming race?
a. You must swim carefully for ten minutes.
b. You must be the first to swim ten kilometres.
7. Choose a sport or a computer game you know. Ask and answer the questions in Exercise 6 with a partner
to explain the game or the sport.
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1. What are the rules of the game?
2. How many players are there?
3. What equipment do you need?
4. What can you do in the game?
5. How do you win the game?
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a. You can drive a car and you can ride a bike.
b. You must be the first player to climb Mount
Everest.
c. You mustnt kick the ball. You can throw the
ball three times.
d. There are two teams with five players on
each team.
e. You need five balls.
Can you fly an aeroplane? The answer
is Yes with Flight-Pro.
Can you attack the dragon and rescue
the princess from the dragon? Play
Castleworld and be a superhero!
With the new Raceworld game, you
can drive a Formula 1 car, sail a boat
with an Olympic team and ride a bike
in the Tour de France.
Anyone can dance thanks to the
Dance-o-matic computer game.
You can climb Mount Everest in our
new game To the Top.
How many balls can you catch? Learn
how to juggle with Circus King and
win this game.
Say It Right!
Listen and repeat.
1. must not mustnt
2. cannot cant
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Model
Writing >> A Description of a Sport or Game
1. Read Jans description of a sport. Then copy and
complete the chart below.
3. Look again at the model in Exercise 1. Find an
example for each rule in Exercise 2.
4. Write the words in the correct order to make
sentences.
1. dance / well / I / can
2. run / must / fast / very / you
3. likes / Tom / sports / unusual
4. doesnt / at all / swim / she / quickly
5. fun / bowling / is
6. an / sport / is / amazing / gymnastics
Task
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Name of the sport / game: bowling
Number of players:
Equipment:
Rules:
How to win:
Writing Help >> Word Order 2
2. Read the sentences below. Then copy and
complete the rules with the words before or after.
Sims 3 is a fun computer game.
You develop a new character.
The Sims characters are interesting.
You play very well.
1. The subject comes the verb.
2. Adjectives usually come a noun.
3. Adjectives can also come the verb to be.
4. Adverbs of manner and degree come the verb.
Writing Plan, Workbook, page 121
Writing Guide, Workbook, page 114
Do you want to go to a football match?
Do you feel like going to a football match?
Whos playing?
When is it?
Where is it?
When does it start?
Thats a good idea.
That sounds great.
Yes, Id love to.
Sorry, I cant.
Imsorry, but Imbusy.
Imnot sure. Ill think about it.
Its on Tuesday.
It starts at 8 oclock.
Its at the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal are playing against Chelsea.
1. Create as many dialogues as you can using the chart
below. Practise the dialogues with your partner.
2. Which of the questions in green in Exercise 1 can
you ask when someone invites you to ?
1. see a film
2. go to a party
3. go to a basketball game
4. go to a tennis match
5. a judo lesson
3. Make dialogues inviting someone to at least two
of the events in Exercise 2. Use the questions and
responses in Exercise 1 to help you. Then practise
the dialogues with your partner.
Write a description of a sport or game.
Before you write:
Choose a sport or game. Then complete the chart
in Exercise 1 about it.
Now write:
Use the writing model in Exercise 1 and your chart
to help you write your description.
Check your writing:
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Word Order (pages 18 and 68)
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Punctuation (page 30)
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Prepositions of Time (page 42)
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Capital Letters (page 56)
A:
B:
A:
B:
Did you know
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Sport is very popular in the UK,
but people prefer watching it
on TV not doing it. The most
popular sport is football. About
46% of the British watch football
on TV, but only about 10% play it.
Workbook, page 46 Real World Extra, page 132
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Speaking
Real Language Record
Answers
Page 59: 1. Marta Domnguez, 2. Edurne Pasabn, 3. Lionel Messi, 4. Usain Bolt, 5. Gemma Mengual, 6. Michael Phelps, 7. Ricky Rubio
Page 61, Exercise 13: the USA. Page 62, Exercise 7: A. ant, B. cheetah, C. cow. Page 65, Exercise 3: 1. Usain Bolt, 2. Venus and Serena
Williams, 3. Lionel Messi, 4. Plcido Domingo, 5. Pau and Marc Gasol
can
I can play football.
She cant do judo.
Can they ski?
Yes, I can.
No, we cant.
must
You must hit the ball.
We mustnt throw the ball.
Adverbs of Manner and Degree
I can dance very beautifully.
I can play basketball quite well.
I cant swim at all fast.
Sports Sports Action Verbs
basketball attack lift
cycling catch rescue
football climb ride
gymnastics dance run
judo drive sail
running fly ski
skiing hit surf
surfing juggle swim
swimming jump throw
tennis kick win
weightlifting
Explaining a Game
What are the rules of the game?
How many players are there?
What equipment do you need?
What can you do in the game?
How do you win the game?
You can drive a car.
You mustnt kick the ball.
You need five balls.
Correct It!
Copy and correct the mistakes in bold.
1. We can to play football at the weekend.
2. Usain Bolt cans run 100 metres in 9.58 seconds.
3. Students mustnt to be late for judo classes.
4. My friends can swim very fastly.
5. Danica carefully must drive.
Whats On?
Do you want to go to a match?
Do you feel like going to a match?
Thats a good idea.
That sounds great.
Yes, Id love to.
Sorry, I cant.
Im sorry, but Im busy.
Im not sure. Ill think about it.
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Web Extra
Vocabulary Games
Grammar Exercises
Dialogue Builder
Web Activity
Extra Practice
Dictation, Workbook, page 47
Check Your Progress,
Workbook, page 47
Language Builder, page 14
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