High Spirits 1: Culture Club

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Culture club
‘My name’s Brandon and I’m 11. Football is
my life. I play it all the time. I’m in my town’s
under-12s FA club. FA stands for ‘Football
Association’. There’s a famous championship
for professional football teams called the FA
Cup. You can join a junior FA club when you
are 5! We practise every Tuesday evening
and Saturday morning at the football club in
town. Each training session is an hour and
a half. We also play a match every Sunday
morning, and we always celebrate when
we win! When I grow up, I want to be a
footballer, of course!’
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Sports and free time
1
Leggi i brani e rispondi alle domande.
Which of the children go to a sports club:
1 at school?
2 in town?
2
Brandon
Alicia
Joshua
Completa le frasi con le informazioni
contenute nei brani.
1 Every Sunday, Brandon
.
2 When Brandon’s team wins,
.
3 In Alicia’s garden
Completa la tabella.
Sport
‘I’m Alicia and I’m 12 years old. My favourite sport
is trampolining. I go to trampolining lessons every
Wednesday at the sports centre in town after
school. My lessons are from 4–5 p.m. Each lesson
costs £4.50. We all take it in turns to practise our
routine. I love trampolining, and now we’ve got a
trampoline at home in the garden, too! At my club
you can work for four different badges: yellow,
blue, green and red. Yellow is the first badge. I’m
working for my blue badge at the moment. Next
year there’s an important competition in London
for trampolining teams. We all want to take part
in it.’
.
Day(s)
Session
4 Alicia wants to
.
5 You kick and use your legs a lot when
.
6 Geups are
Kelly
.
7 Kelly is fit because
.
8 Every term, at the dance club, they
.
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‘I’m Joshua and I’m 13 years old. I love tae
kwon do. It’s a martial art from Korea and
it’s a very popular sport in the UK, too. I
do tae kwon do at school on Thursdays at
3.30 p.m. The lessons are for an hour.
Tae kwon do is very similar to karate. There’s
a lot of kicking and it’s an important skill. Like
all martial arts, tae kwon do is not about
fighting, but about respect and control.
There are ten different levels of tae kwon do,
called geups. You start at the 10th geup and
you try to progress through the levels to the
1st geup. I’m on the 5th geup. That’s quite
good!’
‘I’m Kelly and I love dancing. I’m 12 years old. I’m in the
hip hop dance club at my school. It’s a new after-school club,
and it’s very popular!
It’s every Monday, for 50 minutes. Most of the people in the
class are girls, but there are five or six boys, too. I like hip hop
because it’s very energetic, and
Glossary
it’s good for me! I never go to
championship campionato
a gym, but the dance club is
trampolining salto
like an exercise class. It’s a great
su pedana elastica,
way to keep fit. At the club we
trampolining
routine passo, mossa
learn routines to hip hop music
badge distintivo di livello
and other pop songs. And we
take part partecipare
perform a show at the end of
kick (v) dare calci
every term for our parents
keep fit tenersi in forma
and friends.’
perform esibirsi (in)
term trimestre
Presentazione orale
4 Project Prepara una presentazione orale
sulle attività preferite dai tuoi amici. Prima
di cominciare, fai delle domande a tre amici
e annota le loro risposte. Parla per circa
un minuto. ES T
t Quali sono le loro attività preferite nel tempo
libero?
t Con quale frequenza/Quando fanno queste
attività?
t Sono membri di un’associazione o di un
circolo?
Look!
Per una tema di questo tipo, assicurati di sapere
usare correttamente gli avverbi, le espressioni di
frequenza (always, often, ecc.) e le preposizioni
di tempo in/at/on. Ad esempio:
I often watch TV.
I phone my friends every evening.
I play football three times a week.
Karate club is at six o’clock / on Mondays /
in the evening.
DVD 1 Puoi trovare ulteriori informazioni
sulle attività del tempo libero nel Regno
Unito nel Culture 4 del DVD e a pag. 37.
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