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LISTENING GAP-FILL

The USA’s late show ____________________ group game. They ____________________ draw with England and Slovenia and left it until the 91st minute to secure this victory. The ____________________ top the group and play the runners-up of Group D. A draw here would have put the USA out. In a ____________________, the biggest moment came when inspirational Landon Donovan ____________________ to power a loose ball into the back of the net. Both ____________________ win this game. Algeria’s Rafik Djebbour hit the crossbar ____________________ moments later, the USA’s Hercules Gomez had a long-range effort saved. In the ____________________ like a World Cup exit for both teams. Donavan left it late. His goal sent the American team into seventh heaven.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

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STUDENT WORLD CUP SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about the World Cup in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

	STUDENT 1 _____________	STUDENT 2 _____________	STUDENT 3 _____________
Q.1.
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• Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.
• Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

WORLD CUP DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
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 WRITING

Write about this game for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper.

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HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. MY REPORT: Write a newspaper report about yesterday’s games. Read your report to your partner(s) in your next lesson.

3. WATCH TODAY’S GAMES IN ENGLISH: Write down all the new words you hear below. Bring them to class tomorrow to share with your classmates.

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