Olympic Quiz
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• http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13797097
The Olympic Games 2012, London
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/world_olympic_dreams/9413017.stm
Watch the clip and decide what the video is about
• An introduction to the athletes
• An introduction to the games
• An introduction to London as a city
• An introduction to football at the Olympics
The London Olympics• We are going to watch the
clip again. Can you guess what these numbers are about?
• 80,000• 1,000,000• 17,000• 205• 26• 20• 500• 8
EXAMPLE
I think 1,000,000 is the amount of pounds the Olympics cost.
No, that’s well too cheap. I think it’s the number of athletes in the Olympics.
A million athletes, are you crazy?
Answers
1. The Olympic park is in a place called Stratford.2. Usain Bolt smashed the 100 M record.3. Tom Daley was the youngest 4. Kelly Holmes won two gold medals in Athens.5. Football, Archery, Water Polo are Olympic Sports.6. Table tennis, Taekwondo, Judo are Olympic Sports. 7. Women’s Boxing will be an Olympic sport for the first
time8. Olympic football games will be held around the country9. The Olympics brings everyone together10.The two presenters are supporting Team Great Britain
and Team Jamaica
Can you match these sentences by guessing
to get a glimpse of The Olympic park
to be in the heart of a record
To smash A team/ a country/ a sports start
To spread across the biggest sports stars
To break an area
To be twinned with a record
To cheer on a place/ country/ city
NOW – listen and check
ANSWERS
to get a glimpse of the biggest sports stars
to be in the heart of the Olympic park
To smash a record
To spread across an area
To break a record
To be twinned with a place/ country/ city
To cheer on a team/ a country/ a sports star
Which of these is stronger – to break or to smash a record?
Write the collocation from before on your white board as the meaning is shown
The central or most important part.To be in the
heart of somewhere
For two cities to have a special relationship with each
other.
To be twinned
with a placeTo do something better than the best known speed, time, number, etc. previously achieved.
To break a record
•To defeat someone or to destroy something completely.
To smash a record•To see something or someone for a very short time or only partly.
To get a glimpse of (someone/ something) the biggest sports
stars
to (cause to) cover, reach or have an effect on a wider or increasing area
To spread to an area
•to shout loudly in order to encourage someone in a competition.
To cheer on someone/ to cheer someone on
Write the collocation from before on your white board as the meaning is shown
• To see something or someone for a very short time or only partly.
• To have a special relationship with another place.
• To do something better than the best known speed, time, number, etc. previously achieved.
• To defeat someone or to destroy something completely.
• The central or most important part.• to shout loudly in order to encourage someone
in a competition.
• to (cause to) cover, reach or have an effect on a wider or increasing area
Can you complete these questions?
1. Which sporting star would you like ___A______? Why?2. Which country(ies) at the Olympics are you going to
______B_______ and why?3. How many Olympic records has the Vietnamese Olympic
swim team ____C_______? Why? Why not?4. Which city would you like HCMC to be ___D_____ and
why?5. What buildings should be ____E__________? Why?6. How will Olympic fever ____F____ Saigon?
Can you complete these questions?
• Which sporting star would you like to get a glimpse of? Why?
• Which country(ies) at the Olympics are you going to cheer on and why?
• How many Olympic records has the Vietnamese Olympic swim team broken/ smashed? Why? Why not?
• Which city would you like HCMC to be twinned with and why?
• What buildings should be in the heart of an Olympic Village? Why?
• How will Olympic fever spread to Saigon?
Role Play
A) You are a travel agent.
• A customer comes to you who wants to go to the Olympic games in London.
• Think of seven reasons why they should go!!!!
B) You are thinking about going to London for the Olympics.
• Think of six questions to ask the travel agent about the games!!!
Does the customer book a trip?
B: I’m thinking about going to the London Olympics next month!!!!