Unit 14. The world cup

GAME: PICTURE MATCHING
BRAZIL
ENGLAND
GERMANY
ITALY
JAPAN
MICHAEL
BALLACK
MICHAEL
OWEN
NAKATA
TOTTI
RONALDO
WHICH INTERNATIONAL
FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
DID THESE FOOTBALL
PLAYERS TAKE PART IN?
THE WORLD CUP
UNIT14: THE WORLD CUP
READING
WORK WITH YOUR PARTNER


1. Where was the 2006 World Cup held?

2. Which team became the champion then?

3. Which team was the runner-up?

It was held in Germany.
Italy became the champion then.
France was the runner-up.

Read the following passage and then do the task below:

World Cup , the international tournament, is held every four year. It is considered the most popular sporting event in the world. The World Cup is following with passionate interest around the globe-the final game of the 2002 World Cup tournament attracted more than one billion viewers .
In 1904, the governing body for football, was set up. At its first meeting, FIFA planned to organize a world championship. But it was not until 1930 that the first World Cup was held.Only13 teams took part in the first tournament .The host nation, Uruguay, gained a victory over Argentina in the final and became the first champion in the history of the World Cup tournaments. National foot ball team must now complete in elimination games within their own regions before one of the 32 finalists.
The 2002 World Cup was jointly held by Japan and South Korea. It was the first time it was hosted by two nations. With the victory over Germany in the final match ,Brazil became the first team to win the trophy five times. Although Europe and South America the one continent to have produced World Cup champion , countries on other continent hope that one day they will win the honored title.
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage .Match them with their definition in B
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 o television audience of over billion viewers.
5. After FIFA’ s first meeting , years had passed before the first World Cup was held in Uruguay.
13
32
Argentina
one
26
Task 3: Read the text again and decide whether the following the statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.
The first World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1904.


The World Cup is held every two years.


The World Cup is regarded as the championship of the sport.

Germany and Brazil played in the final match of the 2002 World Cup.

Brazil is the country that has played five times in the World Cup.
1
F
F
T
F
T
F
T
2
4
5
3
The first World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930.
2
The World Cup is held once every four year.
Brazil is the country that has won the World Cup
five times.
1904 17

13 32

1930 2002
DISCUSS WITH YOUR PARTNER
13: Only thirteen teams competed in the first World Cup.
1930: The first World Cup was held in 1930.
17: By 2002 the world has witnessed seventeen World Cup.
32: Today the final tournament of the World Cup has thirty- two teams.
1904: FIFA, the governing body for football, was set up.
2002: It was the first time the World Cup was held by two countries: Japan and Korea.
- Teacher raises a poster in which there are names of ten sports persons, and a poster in which there are seven objects in thirty seconds each.
- Students look at the posters and in one minute students write down what they remember( one minute each poster).
GAME: WHOSE MEMORY IS THE BEST?
Michael
ballack
Totti
Ronaldo
Ahn
Jung
Hwan
Maradona
Zidane
Michael
Ballack
Raul
Colina
Alex
Ferguson