THE WORLD

CUP
READING
• Develop ability to read for specific information
General
aims

Specific • Improve reading skills (reading and guessing the

meaning of words in contexts, answering
learning questions about the texts, scanning, etc.)
• Have a background knowledge of football and a
outcomes range of vocabulary regarding football
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Do you like football?

Do you prefer playing football to

watching football?

Which international football

tournament do you like best?
International football tournament
- World Cup: a quadrennial football tournament that
determines the sport’s world champion
- UEFA Champion League (C1): an annual club football
competition organized by the Union of European Football
Associations and contested by top-division European clubs
- Premier League: the top level of the English football league
system contested by 20 clubs
- SEA games: a biennial /baiˈeniəl/ multi-sport event
involving participants from the current 11 countries of
Southeast Asia
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS

Preventing
Thủ môn the ball going
into the net
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS

‘reading’ the
Hậu vệ play and
‘sweeping up’
quét any loose balls
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS

Defending
and trying to
prevent the
Trung vệ opposition
(hậu vệ strikers from
trung tâm getting any
goalscoring
opportunities
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS

Preventing the
opposition
Hậu vệ from scoring
cánh and support
their attacking
players
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS
Performing
Hậu vệ essentially the
same role as
cánh tấn the full-back,
công but with more
emphasis on
attacking
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS

Tiền vệ
phòng Defending
ngự
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS

Tiền vệ both attacking

trung tâm and defending
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS
dribbling with
the ball and
beating the
Tiền vệ defenders,
and should be
cánh able to
provide good
crosses for the
strikers
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS

Attacking
Tiền vệ
tấn công
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS
finding good
goalscoring
Tiền đạo opportunities
cắm or getting in
positions
where they
Tiền đạo can set up
chances for
trung tâm others
(hộ công)
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FOOTBALL
PLAYER
POSITIONS
creating space
and carving
Tiền đạo out (create)
cánh chances for
the main
striker or even
scoring a few
goals
themselves
Pre-teaching vocabulary
• Tournnament /ˈtuənəmənt/: a competition in which many
players compete in many separate games (giải đấu)
• To witness /ˈwɪtnəs/ = to see = to experience (chứng kiến)
a witness: a person who sees something happen and is able
to describe it to other people (nhân chứng)
• Elimination games /ɪˌlɪmɪˈneɪʃn/: the game within a region
that decides which team can go to the World Cup (vòng đấu
loại)
• Trophy /ˈtrəufi/: a prize for winning in a sport (cúp)