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Soccer in the U.S.
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Grammar focus
Simple present
Adverbs of frequency
Summary of video clip
The report is about the sport of soccer, both in the
U.K. and the U.S. It focuses on an American girls
soccer team and one of their games.
Preparation
Ask students: Which famous soccer players do you
know? Who is your favorite sportsperson? Which
sport does he / she play? / Which team is he / she in?
Check understanding of these words: team, game,
fans, medal, international, league, train, warm up,
uniform, eld, coach.
Background
Soccer is often thought to be the most popular sport
in the world, with over 240 million players.
Soccer is called football in the U.K. It is the most
popular British sport, and many students play it at
school. Some of the most famous British football
clubs include Manchester United, Aston Villa, and
Liverpool, and the teams for these clubs often
include many international players.
In the U.S., basketball, baseball, American football
(called simply football in the U.S.), and ice hockey
are more popular sports. However, many people
enjoy playing soccer, and interest in the sport is
growing. The United States Womens soccer team
is one of the best in the world. More than 90,000
fans attended the 1999 FIFA Womens World Cup in
California.
Before you watch
Read the questions with the class, and elicit answers
from individual students. Encourage students to give
a personal response, and use their suggestions to
start a class discussion.
Comprehension check
1 Watch the video clip. Choose the correct
answers.
Pre-watching: Students focus on the questions:
1 What is the most popular sport in the U.K.?
2 Which soccer players are in the video?
3 What color is the Fair Lawn uniform?
Play the whole video clip. Students choose
the correct answers. Check their answers.
Answers: 1 c 2 a 3 b
2 Watch again. Match questions 18 and
answers ah.
Pre-watching: Ask students to try to match the
questions and answers before they watch the
video again.
Play the video and pause to check answers.
Answers: 1 g 2 a 3 h 4 b 5 c 6 e
7 d 8 f
3 Watch again. Choose the correct words.
Pre-watching: Ask students to read the
sentences and try to choose the correct words
before they watch the video again.
Play the video and pause to check answers.
Answers: 1 Liverpool 2 Olympics 3 good
4 play 5 two or three 6 dont like 7 lose
8 happy
4 Watch again. Complete the summary with
the words in the box.
Pre-watching: Go through the summary first,
and check understanding of the words in the
box. Explain that all of the words in the box are
connected to the topic of sports, and encourage
them to write down any new words in their
vocabulary books.
Play the video to check answers.
Answers: 1 fans 2 team 3 train 4 game
5 uniform 6 field 7 league 8 win
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Soccer in the U.S.
Starter Video Teaching notes units
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6 Printable Oxford University Press 2011

5 Watch again. Complete the answers to the
questions.
Pre-watching: Explain that students need to
read the questions carefully before they write the
answers. Explain that students only need to write
one word in each gap.
Play the video to check answers.
Answers: 1 team 2 No ... isnt 3 the U.K. /
Britain 4 two 5 Sunday 6 parents
Optional activity
Ask students to call out the names of sports
and write them on the board. For example:
soccer swimming
baseball karate
basketball tennis
Ask students to work in pairs or small groups.
Tell them they are going to do a class survey
to nd out the classs favorite sport. Students
interview other groups, and ask the question:
Which sports do you like? When they have
nished, compare answers as a class. Ask:
Which sports are popular? How many
students play them? Which sports dont
many students play?
Language check
Simple present
Some people watch soccer.
Boys and girls dont play on the same teams.
Adverbs of frequency
People sometimes go to football games.
Students usually play baseball or basketball.
Review the grammar points by asking the following
questions: Which sport does Marta play? Do boys
play on the Fair Lawn team? Remind students that
we use verb + s with the third person afrmative,
and that we use doesnt + verb in the negative form
(all persons). Ask students: How often do you watch
the school team play? Are they usually the winners?
Elicit answers with adverbs of frequency. Highlight
the fact that we put the adverb after the verb
be, but before other verbs. If necessary, write the
adverbs of frequency on the board, and ask students
to put them in order, from always to never (answers:
always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never).
6 Complete the sentences. Use the correct
afrmative or negative form of the simple
present.
Students read the sentences and complete them.
Remind them that they may have to use the
afrmative or the negative form of the simple
present. Explain that the answers to all the
questions are in the video. Check answers with
the class.
Answers: 1 has 2 prefer 3 doesnt play
4 train 5 doesnt start 6 talks 7 watch
8 dont lose
7 Write true sentences. Use one of the
adverbs in the correct place.
Students write sentences using one of the
adverbs in parentheses. Explain that students
need to use information from the video to help
them to choose the correct adverb, and play the
video again if students need more help. Remind
them to look carefully at the verb and think
about whether the adverb needs to go before or
after it. Check answers with the class.
Answers: 1 The U.S. soccer teams sometimes
play in the World Cup. 2 The U.S. Womens
team is often very good. 3 The Fair Lawn
players usually train for about two hours.
4 The players never train on weekends. 5 The
players uniform is always red, white and black.
6 The Fair Lawn team rarely loses.
Extension
Ask students to read the questions carefully rst.
Students then ask and answer the questions in pairs.
Monitor and help.
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