unit 14..lop 10. reading

Class
10
PERIOD 80
UNIT 14: THE W ORLD CUP
A. READING

2. Who is singing ?
1. What is the name of the song?
3. When was it first sung?
Where?
Listen and guess :
THE CUP OF LIFE
RICKY MARTIN
In 1998
In France
4. Which team became the
champion then?
FRANCE

Look at your
book and
and listen to
the tape.

I. Vocabulary.
- champion (n):  championship (n) :
Ex: Our football team must try to win the championship this year to become one
of the champions in the area.
-
runner-up (n) :

- tournament (n):.
- FIFA < abbr > ( International Association Football Federation )
- host nation (n) : a country that provides the necessary space, facilities , etc. for a
special event.
- victory (n): success in a game
- witness (v): witness an accident / a murder/ a quarrel
- compete (v):  competition (n) :
- Elimination (n):  elimination game (n)  eliminate (v):
- Trophy (n):
A prize for winning a competition
Ex: France was the runner-up of the 2006 World Cup.
- honoured title(n):
Ex: Brazil is one of the 32 finalists this year. If they win the trophy, they will be the
champion and become the country which has gotten this honoured title six times.

Task 1. Match the words in A with their definitions in B.
A B
1. jointly
2. the globe
3. tournament
4. host nation
5. trophy
a. a competition in which players compete
against each other in a series of games until
there is a winner.
b. involving two or more people or groups
c. the world
d. a prize for winning a competition
e. a country that provides the necessary space,
facilities, etc. for a special event

1- b ; 2 – c ; 3 – a ; 4 – e ; 5 – d

Task 2. Scan the text and complete each of the following sentences
with a word or a number.
1. Only ……………………teams competed in the first World Cup.
2. Today the final tournament of the World Cup has …………… teams.
3. The team which was defeated in the first World Cup final was
……………………………
4. The final match of the 2002 World Cup attracted a television
audience of over ………………………billion viewers.
5. After FIFA’s meeting , …………………………… years has passed before
the first World Cup was held in Uruguay.
13
32
26
one
Argentina

Task 3. Read the text again and decide whether the following
statements are True (T) or False (F) .Correct the false ones.
1. The first World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1904 .
2. The World Cup is held every two years.
3. The World Cup is regarded as the world championship
of the sport.
4. Germany and Brazil played in the final match of
the 2002 World Cup
5. Brazil is the country that has played five times
in the World Cup .
T F
1930

four years
won

Work in groups: Talk about the events mentioned in the
passage, using the following figures as cues.
Example:
- 1904 is the year when FIFA was set up.
1904
13 1930 17 32 2002