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Sport 2: winning, losing, and scoring
Winning and losing
Notice how these key words are used:
Spain beat Switzerland 3-2 (= Switzerland lost to Spain 3-2) In other words:
Spain won the match (= Switzerland lost the match)
Spain defeated Switzerland (= Switzerland were defeated by Spain)
Spain were the winners (= Switzerland were the losers)
If both teams or players have the same score (= number of goals or points), it is a draw (eg 2-2 is a draw) We can also use draw as a verb, e.g we drew yesterday’s match/game 2-2 Note: A match is used for an organised game: We had a game of football with a few friends
in the park, but we’ve got an important match against a very good team next week When the game is still in progress, we often use the verb lead to describe the position of the teams and players, or latest to describe the score:
HALF-TIME SCORE: SPAIN 2 SWITZERLAND 1
At half-time, Spain are leading Switzerland two-one (= the latest score is two-one to Spain) Sampras is leading three-two in the first set (= the latest score is three-two to Sampras)
What’s the score?
In most games you score goals (e.g football, hockey) or points (e.g table tennis,
basketball) At the end of the game there is a result (= players/teams win, lose, or draw)
However, the scoring system — and the way we describe it — is different from game to game
Spain 0-0 Italy (we say nil-nil) 15-0 (fifteen-love)
Spain 1-0 Italy (one-nmil to Spain) 30~0 (thirty-love)
Spain 1-1 Italy (one-all) 30-30 (thirty-all)
Spain 1-2 Italy (two-one to Italy) 40-40 (deuce) [pronounced like ‘juice’] Spain 2~2 Italy (two-all) Advantage X
Game X
If the final score is 2-2 in a cup match, Game and set to X (e.g 6-3 or 7-5)
you may have to play extra time And If the score reaches 6-6 you have a
if the score is still 2-2 at the end of extra tie-break to decide the set
time, there is a penalty shoot-out
Competitions
quarter a knock-out competition
In many sports, players and final
teams play every week in a
league (the player/team that ¬-—— final
wins the most games In a
season is the winner of the =
league championship) In —T†—————— —— most sports, there is also a —
cup competition, which is ¬ Ỉ
usually a knock-out
.semi-final
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These exercises also revise some vocabulary from the previous unit
Complete the table with the correct forms
Infinitive Past tense | Past Infinitive Past tense | Past
participle participle
How do we say these scores?
1 Football: 0-0 2-1 4-4
2 Tennis: 15-0 40-30 40-40
Fill the gaps in these texts with suitable words or phrases
In the World Cup Final of 1994, Brazil 0!) Italy 3-2 in a #? shoot-out After ninety minutes the 8ì was 0-0; and it remained the same after thirty minutes of (4) ; but then Italy ® 3~2 in the penalty shoot-out after Baresi and Baggio both missed This was the fourth time that Brazil had 46) the World Cup
lvanisevic f) to Sampras in the second round He #! the first
(oe 6-4 but then (19) the second 111! on a 42?) After that, Sampras dominated the rest of the (13) and won easily The final
UY was 4-6, 7-6, 6-1, 6-2
True or false? Check your answers by looking back at this unit and the previous unit Brazil won the football World Cup in 1994
Football has an umpire
A set in tennis is always decided on a tie-break
If two teams have the same score at the end of the game, it is a draw
Golf is played on a course
If someone gives you the latest score, the game has finished
Sticks are used in skiing and hockey
In a knock-out competition, you can lose one or two games but still win the competition
Which sport is being described in each sentence? (The underlined words are key words and you can look them up to increase your vocabulary in different sports.)
The referee gave the try although many people thought it was a forward pass
He scored the winner with a beautiful free kick from just outside the penalty area
He served fifteen aces and not one double fault
The coach called a time out with just 45 seconds left and two points between the teams
He crashed into the car in front with just two laps remaining
First he was booked (= the yellow card) for a bad tackle, and then he handled the ball inside the penalty area, so the referee had to send him off (= the red card)
In the 200 metres freestyle, he overtook the Russian on the final length to win the race
She sprinted away from the rest of the field on the final lap and won easily
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Cinema and theatre
Theatre
At the theatre you can see plays, e.g Hamlet by Shakespeare, or musicals, e.g Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber In a play the cast (= the total number of actors) is usually quite small, but musicals often have a very large cast
One difference between the theatre and cinema is that you usually book (= reserve) tickets
in advance (= some time before the actual performance) if you are going to the theatre Another difference is that the audience (= the people watching the play/musical) clap at the end of the performance This does not usually happen (in Britain) at the end of a film Cinema
Plays are performed on stage, films are shown on screen In your country, films in English are either shown with subtitles (= there is a translation across the bottom of the screen), or they are dubbed (= the English is removed and replaced by actors speaking in your own language)
Films are set (= take place) in many different periods and places, e.g Room with a View is set in the early part of the 20th century; Blade Runner is set in the future And when people
talk about films, they often talk about the director, e.g Spielberg, Bertolucci; and the stars,
the most important actors and actresses, e.g Tom Hanks and Jodie Foster
Types of film
western: a film about America in the 19th century; often with cowboys and indians
war film, e.g Born on the 4th of July action film, e.g Indiana Jones
horror film, e.g Dracula; Frankenstein comedy: a funny film that makes you laugh science fiction film: about the future thriller: an exciting story often about a crime
Describing plays and films
Journalists write articles in which they give their opinion of new films and plays They are called critics, and their articles are called reviews These are some words they may use: moving: producing strong emotions, often of sadness; a positive word
violent: includes lots of scenes with fighting and death
powerful: has a big effect on our emotions
gripping: exciting and very interesting
good fun: used to describe a film that may not be very serious or important but is enjoyable slow: boring
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72.2% What word or phrase is being defined?
A play or film in which part of the story is sung to music
The total number of actors in a play or film
The people who watch a play at the theatre
What these people do with their hands at the end of a play
The person who makes a film
Journalists who write articles about films and plays
The name of the articles they write
The translation of the story of a film across the bottom of the screen
To reserve tickets before the performance
The most important actors or actresses in a film
72.3 Have you seen these famous films made in English over the last twenty years? If so, try to
complete the rest of the table using words from the opposite page Then write in the titles of three more films you have seen and complete the rest of the table for it
Film Type of film | Subtitles or Description of film
dubbed? (adjectives)
1 Dirty Harry with
Clint Eastwood
2 Blade Runner with
Harrison Ford
3 Four Weddings and a
Funeral with Hugh Grant
4 Schindler’s List with
Liam Neeson
5 Dances with Wolves
with Kevin Costner
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Music, art and literature
A Forms and people
Music classical composer
pop/rock songwriter
Art painting painter artist
sculpture sculptor } (general) Literature — the novel novelist
short stories short story writer writer poetry poet (general) plays dramatist/playwright
Music
Classical music: e.g Beethoven’s piano concertos, Schubert’s symphonies Beethoven and Schubert are both composers (~ people who write classical music) and most of their music is played by an orchestra (= large group of musicians including violins, cellos, etc.) which is led by a conductor, e.g Georg Solti or Loren Maazel, as leader
Opera (= play in which the words are sung): e.g La Bobéme by Puccini, Carmen by Bizet Rock and pop music: e.g U2, Bon Jovi, Maria Carey This music is played by groups/bands, e.g Bon Jovi, Simply Red; or solo artists, e.g Madonna Many solo artists, e.g Phil Collins, are singer-songwriters (= they write and perform/play their own songs)
Jazz: e.g Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Stan Getz
Musical instruments and musicians
saxophonist drummer
violin —
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flautist (= person
who plays flute) Art
If you want to see the paintings of a famous artist, you need to go to an art gallery or museum, There you can see individual paintings and sometimes an exhibition (= a collection
of paintings by one painter or school of painters, e.g the Impressionists), e.g
There’s a Monet exhibition at the National Gallery next week
There are many different types and styles of painting:
a portrait (= a painting of a person)
a self-portrait (= a painting of the artist by himself/herself)
a landscape (= a painting of part of the countryside)
an abstract painting (= a painting that is not realistic)
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composer? conductor? rock star? pop star? musician? singer? pianist? etc.) Some of them may
be more than one of these things
1 Leo Tolstoy 7 Giuseppe Verdi 13 Henry Moore
2 William Wordsworth 8 Mick Jagger 14 Jorge Luis Borges
3 Henrik Ibsen 9 Milton Nascimento 15 Pablo Picasso
4 Yukio Mishima 10 Paul Tortelier 16 Saki
5 Anton Chekhov 11 Paul Simon 17 Leonard Bernstein
6 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 12 Mark Knopfler 18 Alberto Giacometti
73.2 What do you call the people who play the following instruments?
piano guitar drums violin cello flute
73.3 What types of painting are these?
73.4 Use the context and your own knowledge to fill the gaps in these sentences and dialogues
1 He used to be conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic
2 Phil Collins was in a famous called Genesis before he became a
3 A: Do you like music?
B: Yes, very much
A: And who?® your Ífavourite ?
B: It’s hard to say, but I love Bach and Vivaldi
4 There’s going to be an of his paintings at the new art
$ She used to her own songs but now she mainly material written by other people
6 Ihavent been to the since I saw The Marriage of Figaro last year
7 I think The Great Gaisby is Scott Fitzgerald® best
8 Hs first was performed in a very small theatre
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A Background
In Britain, most newspapers are daily (= they come out / are published every day); a few only come out on Sundays Magazines are usually weekly (= they come out every week), or monthly (= published every month)
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| [beGuardian Tory cAver ae € Oeclor
Some newspapers are tabloids (= small in size) e.g The Mirror; others are called
broadsheets (= larger in size) e.g The Times In general, the tabloids represent the popular press (short articles and lots of pictures) and the broadsheets represent the quality press
(longer articles and more ‘serious’) The largest circulation (= number of readers) is The Sun
Contents
Most British papers contain the following:
home news (= news about Britain)
foreign/international news (= news about other countries)
business news
sports news
features (= longer articles about special subjects, e.g a famous person or a political issue} radio and TV programmes
weather forecast (= tells you what the weather will be like)
reviews {= when film, theatre and music critics write about new films, plays and records, and give their opinion of them)
People
Editor: the person in control of the daily production
Reporters/journalists: people who report news and write articles; many journalists are freelance (= they work for themselves and are not employed by the newspaper)
Headlines
Certain words (usually very short) are often used in newspaper headlines Here are some:
row (pronounced like ‘cow’) (= an argument) back (= to support)
quit (= to leave a job) hit (= to affect badly)
bid (n, v) (= an effort / a try / an attempt) talks (= discussions)
cut (v, n) (= to reduce / make less) key (= very important)
‘It said in the paper that .’
When we refer to something in a newspaper we can use the verb say (NOT write), or the expression according to:
It says in The Times that they’ve found the missing girl
According to The Guardian, the missing girl was found last night
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How many daily national newspapers are there?
How many are tabloids?
Are any of the ‘quality’ papers in tabloid form?
How many broadsheets are there?
How many newspapers omly come out on Sunday in your country?
Which newspaper has the largest circulation?
Can you name at least one editor of a daily paper; and two or three famous journalists who write for daily or weekly papers?
8 How often do you read the newspaper? How often do you buy a newspaper?
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#4.2 Explain these headlines in your own words Do not use the underlined words
Minister to quit | 5 US plan
2 on new hospitals 6 Ministers in tax row }
3 New bid to cut teenage smoking | 7 POLICE DISCOVER KEY WITNESS |
4 Bad weather hits farmers | 8 fresh tall
74.3 Buy two different newspapers (in English or your own language) and complete this table
Paper 1 (no of pages) Paper 2 (no of pages)
home news
foreign/international news
feature articles
business news
sports news
For the same two papers complete this table
Paper 1 (yes/no) Paper 2 (yes/no)
weather forecast
cartoons
crossword
radio and TV programmes
How many pages are left? What are they about? If possible, compare answers with a friend
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Television
Operating a television
plug it in turn it on (# turn it off) remote control
You may also want to turn it up (= increase the volume because you can’t hear) (# turn it down); and turn over (= change to a different channel, e.g from 1 to 3)
Note: You can also say switch on, switch off, or switch over (but wot switch it up/down)
Types of programme
Here are some types of TV programme:
Soap opera: a programme often on two or three times a week, which follows the lives of a group/community of people; the stories are often exciting, dramatic and hard to believe Quiz show or Game show: individuals, teams or families who answer questions or play different games against each other The winner gets a prize, e.g a car, a holiday, money Chat show: a programme where a presenter talks to famous people about their lives and
careers; sometimes there is music as well
Documentary: a film with factual information, often analysing a problem in society
A series: a number of programmes about the same situation or the same characters in different situations This may be a comedy series (the programmes are intended to be funny), or a drama series (the programmes are intended to be exciting, with interesting
characters and situations)
Current affairs programme: a programme about a current social/political problem Current means that it is happening ‘now / at the present time’
TV in Great Britain
At the moment there are five ‘terrestrial’ channels (or stations)
on TV (BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5) If you
pay extra, you can have a satellite dish and receive satellite TV;
or pay to have cable TV — there are many channels available
Talking TV
Here are some useful words and phrases connected with television:
What’s on TV tonight? (= what programmes are showing on TV tonight?)
What time’s the film on? (= what time does it start?)
How long do the commercials last? (= the advertisements between programmes)
What’s your favourite programme? (= the programme you like most/best)
Are they showing the game live (= as it happens) or just recorded highlights? (= parts of the game after it has been played, e.g later in the day/evening)
How much is a TV licence? (= money you have to pay the government if you have a TV)
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You are watching TV with a friend What could you say in each of the situations below? Look at the example first
1 You can’t hear the programme very well
2 You want to watch a different programme
3 Now it’s too loud for you
4 You don’t want to watch any more
Could you
Could you
Could you
Could you "2
Here is part of an evening from three British TV channels Can you find at least one example
of: a documentary, a quiz show, a game show, a drama series, and a current affairs
programme? There is also one example of a comedy series and two soap operas Can you guess which programmes they might be?
7.00 Telly Addicts
Noel Edmonds hosts the quiz in
which teams have their television
knowledge put to the test
7.30 Watchdog
Anne: Robinson presents the
stories that affect consumers: in
the 1990s With Alice Beer: and
reporters Chris Choi:and
Johnathan Maitland
8.00 EastEnders
Kathy tries to:come to terms with
Ted’s revelations Michelle
receives a letter that could
change her life
Forcast seé Tuesday
Stereo Subtitiled
8.30 2 Point 4 Children
The Deep There"s something
fishy going on when Bill and Ben
are asked to look after their
neighbour's house
9,00 Nine:0’Clock News
With Peter Sissons
Subtitled
Regional News
Weather Rob McElwee 3245
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7.00 The Krypton Factor
Four new contestants compete for
a place in the November final
Director Tony Prescott; Producer Wayne Garvie _ Stereo Subtitled uu 9448
7.30 Coronation Street
It’s farewell time at.the Rovers
Episode written by Stephen Mattatratt For cast see Wednesday Repeated on Wednesday at 1.25pm | Subtitled ., 239 Bet’s off: page 22
8.00 Bruce’s Price Is Right
Game show testing knowledge: of the price of consumer goods,
Director Bill Morton; Producer Howard
8.30 World in Action
In:a classroom fitted with cameras, World in Action reveals what is really going on in Britain’s
overcrowded schools and asks who is to blame
9.00 New series Cracker
Brotherly Love (part 1)
In the ‘first of this three-
part thriller, a prostitute is found raped and murdered, opening old: wounds at the station See today’s choices
7§.3 Answer these questions about TV in your own country
What night are they on?
EH How many ‘terrestrial ‘channels are there?
Do you watch satellite TV and/or cable TV?
In total, how much TV do you watch every week?
What are your favourite programmes on TV at the moment?
Do you enjoy watching the commercials?
Do you often watch football matches live on TV? If not, do you watch the highlights?
Do you need a TV licence in your country? If so, how much is it?
7,00 Channel 4 News
Presented by Jon Snow and Cathy Smith Including Weather
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7.55 The Sio†
The daily soapbox offering viewers
the chance to air their opinions
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8.00 New series Desperately Seeking Something
A four-part series in which Pete
McCarthy explores the strange
universe of alternative beliefs
8.30 Baby H's You
Continuing the six-part series which uses natural history filming
techniques to observe the first two years of a baby’s life
9.00 Cutting Edge
The Trouble with Money
Strange though it seems to some, not
everyone enjoys winning the lottery This documentary explores the joys and pitfalls of
getting rich quick
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