Name: ____________________________________ Date: ________________________________

Group: ________________

Highschool: ______________________ MARKS: ______/100

1. Listen and complete the chart about these famous sport personalities. (
Diego Forlan

Tiger Woods

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Rafael Nadal

PLAY SOCCER
DANCE HIP HOP
SKATE
PLAY GOLF
WINDSURF
PLAY TENNIS
2. Match the sport with the definition. Three of them have been done for you. (

/15)

A game played between two

A game played by two teams of eleven

The sport of moving yourself

teams of five players, in which

players who try to kick a round ball

through water using your arms and

each team tries to win points by

into the other team's goal.

legs.

Equipment: ball, goals

Equipment: swimming suit, goggles,

throwing a ball through a net.

Equipment: ball

swimming cap

Place: pitch

Place: court

Place: pool

SOCCE
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The sport or activity of riding

horses.

TENNIS
BASKETBALL
SWIMMING
HORSE RIDING
ICE-SKATING
KARATE

A Japanese sport or method of

defence in which you try to throw
your opponent onto the ground.

Equipment: addle, crop, cap

Equipment: judo suit, belt

Place: racecourse

Place: tatami mat

a game
A
game in
in which
which the
the players
players hit
hit aa small
small

To slide on ice wearing

white ball into holes in the ground with a

ice skates.

set of golf clubs, using as few hits as

possible

Equipment: ice skates

Equipment: ball, clubs, spikes

Place: rink

Place: course

A game for two people or two pairs of

people who use rackets to hit a small soft
ball backwards and forwards over a net.
Equipment: racket, ball
Place: court

GOL

ICE-

3. Read and mark TRUE or FALSE. Correct the false ones. (

a. Soccer is played in two teams of six players _____

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_________________________________

b. Spikes are in the golf equipment

_____

_________________________________

c. Ice-skating is practiced in a court

_____

_________________________________

d. Golf is played with a small yellow ball

e. Golf is the Japanese sport

_____
_____

_________________________________

_________________________________

4. Complete the sentences with the words below. There is an EXTRA ONE.
(
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PLAYER

TEAMS

WAS BORN

REFEREE

LOVES

a- Manu Ginobilli is a famous basketball ______________

b- He played for some important _____________ in the United States of America.
c- He ____________ in Argentina.
d- He _____________ playing basketball and going walking.

5. Use the sentences from exercise 4 and the information from the chart to write a short
biography of a famous basketball player. (
/25)

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a game played by two teams

a Japanese sport or method of

of eleven players who try to

defence in which you try to

kick a round ball into the

throw your opponent onto the

Equipment: ball, spikes

Equipment: judo suit, belt

other team's ____________________________________________________________

goal.
ground.

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FACTFILE.
Name: Manu Ginbili
Marital status: married ( Marianela Oroo)
Date of birth: 28 July 1977 (age 36)
Place of birth: Baha Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Likes: play basketball and go walking
Participations:

member of the Argentine national basketball team

Summer Olympic Games bronze medal: 2008
NBA Championship: 2003, 2005, 2007
Italian Cup: 2001, 2002