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Boarding A - Unit 2
Boarding A - Unit 2
Boarding A - Unit 2
CONTENTS
1 2 3 4 5
Competitions 2a 2c 2b 2d / 2e
Joining a group /
Unit Opener Crazy competitions Bolivian wrestlers Winning and losing Advertising for
members
1 three
2 they swim 3.86 kilometres and cycle 180 kilometres
3 around one thousand, nine hundred people compete
Compete
Competitive
Competition
Competitor
competitor
compete
competitions
competitive
Unit 2
1A
2B
3A
4 A
5 both
6B
1 race
2 players
3 teams
4 match
5 goals
6 line
7 winner
must have to
can
don’t have to
mustn’t can’t
have to
can’t
can
don’t have to
2c
a 2 (two women in colourful clothes
enter the ring)
b 1 (Local people like watching the
wrestling and it’s very popular with
tourists.)
c 4 (At home Yolanda has a normal
and quiet family life. She has two
daughters …)
d 5 (‘We laugh and we forget our
ing problems for three or four hours.’)
rowd e 3 (Claudina jumps on Yolanda.
Then Yolanda throws Claudina on the
ommentator floor …)
o razy
ans
alary
1b
2a
3c
1a
2c
3d
4b
1d
2c
3a
4b
2b
2 motorcyclist
3 baseball
player
4 swimmer
5 chess player
6 racing driver
7 gymnast
8 surfer
2
1
3
3F
4A
5F
6F
7A
8A
9F
3, 5, 6
2, 4, 8
7, 9
1 Learning to win and
lose is important in a
child’s education. – a
2 Competitive sports in
schools are good for
teaching children. – c
3 Some parents hate
losing. – b
1 I never thought of
losing.
2 I just love winning.
3 A champion isn’t
afraid of losing.
4 I hate losing.
5 I’m more worried
about being a good
person than being the
best football player.
6 Swimming isn’t
everything, winning
is.
1 thing
2 win
3 bank
4 sing
5 ran
6 pink
2d
1 photography club
2 theatre group
3 running group
1 good at
2 what about
3 interested in
4 hate
5 not very
6 on
7 like to
8 looks; Why
don’t
Talking about interests and
abilities:
3 Are you interested in acting?
4 I hate standing up in front of
people.
5 I’m not very good at singing.
Bad adverts:
the opposite of the above!
1 Advert B follows most of the advice.
Tennis
(Possible rules: You have to hit
the ball over the net. You don’t
have to win every point to win
the match.)
1 Learning
2 feeling
3 losing
4 winning
5 watching
6 going
1 race
2 goals
3 crowd
4 match
5 finish line
6 baseball
7 winner
8 fans
9 team
10 boxer
1 finish line
2 winner
3 race
4 fans
1 race
2 goals
3 crowd
4 match
5 finish line
6 baseball
7 winner
8 fans
9 team
10 boxer
1 in
2 at
3 to
4 on
5 Do