COLEGIO ANDRES BELLO Independencia 278, San Francisco de Mostazal Fono (72) 491080 Teacher: Gustavo J.

Pereira Lepe Subject: English

UNIT 3: The world of sports.

Name:_________________________________________ Grade:______________________ I. Reading Comprehension

Football (Soccer) Football or soccer, which is considered to be the most popular sport in the world, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball. The object of the game, which is played on a wide rectangular field with a goal on each end of the field, is to score by putting the ball into the adversary goal. The goal is kept by a goalkeeper who is allowed, at the exception of other players, to use his / her hands in the game. The winners are those who score the most goals. If the football (or soccer) match ends in a draw the two teams may be redirected to play extra time and / or penalty shootouts (each team taking turns to have a set number of kicks at the goal.) The way football is played now was first codified in England. Nowadays, it is governed by the FIFA, "Fdration Internationale de Football Association" (International Federation of Association Football.) The game is played now all over the world and competitions are organized nationally, continentally and internationally. The most prestigious of football competitions is the World Cup, which is held every four years.

Before Reading:

1. Look for Cognates in the text and underline them. 2. Look in the dictionary for the following vocabulary.

Team: Field: Score: Goalkeeper: Hand:

Kick: Hold: Winner: Match: Draw:

After Reading: 1. Answer the following questions. a. What is the football (soccer) about? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ b. Where is it played? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ c. What is the object if the game? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2. Choose the correct alternative.

a) Soccer is another word for football a. True b. False b) Each team includes 22 players a. True b. False

c) The rules of the game were established a. by an international committee b. in England d) a. b. c. The world cup competition takes place annually, every 5 years, every 4 years.

II.

Vocabulary

Comparative adjectives
We use adjectives to describe things and people:

A computer is a modern technological tool.

We also use adjectives to compare things that are different or similar.

A notebook is more modern than a desktop computer.

There are two common ways for creating these comparatives:

1. The positive adjective + the suffix er 2. The modifier more (or less) before the adjective.

Short adjectives (one syllable) cheap fast Long adjectives (two or more syllables)

Rule

Comparative

Example

Add er to the end of the adjective.

cheaper (than...)

Your computer is cheaper than my laptop.

Expensive intelligent Irregular adjectives good bad little far

Add more before the adjective.

more expensive (than...)

The new printer is more expensive than the old one.

These adjectives are irregular.

better (than...) worse (than...) less(than...) farther/further(than...)

My cell phone is better than yours.

Other Spelling Rules: a) hot hotter (tan...): Adjs. que acaban en Consonante Vocal Consonante) b) easy easier (than): Adjs. que acaban en y, cambian a i latina ms er. Exercise I: use the rules above to make comparisons Adjective bad beautiful big difficult efficient expensive fast Comparison Adjective interesting large old powerful quick small wide Comparison

Exercise II: fill in the blanks with the correct form of the adjectives

1) A desktop computer is __________ than a laptop. (heavy) 2) A keyboard is _____________ than a mouse. (big) 3) A scanner is _______________________ than a webcam. (expensive) 4) The Doshina is _________________ than the Vintel. (fast) 5) A cell phone is_________________ than a radio. (light) 6) DVDs are __________________ than VHSs (modern) 7) Excel is ______________________ than Word. (difficult) 8) A_________________ method is to load the data on one computer and provide the other computers access to the data. (efficient) 9) One of the benefits of networking is sharing data in a _________________way. (inexpensive) 10) Before networking arrival, users needed different peripherals to connect with_______________organizations. (large)

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