EXERCISE 1
Read this article from Sport News Weekly and answer the questions that follow it:
| Right | Wrong | |
| Manchester United won. | ||
| The match took place in Manchester. | ||
| Manchester United scored one. | ||
| Several goals were scored. | ||
| Liverpool were beaten. |
EXERCISE 2
Fill in the empty boxes with the simple past tense of these verbs:
| Present | win | lose | fight | meet | beat | score |
| Past |
Choose the correct form of the verbs in these sentences:
1. Yesterday I win / won at cards.
2. I always lost / lose my keys.
3. The Greeks fight / fought in the battle of Salamls.
4. Did you beat / beaten him at tennis again?
5. When I go on holiday I make / made lots of new friends.
6. He scored / score two goals in the first five minutes of the game.
EXERCISE 3 | Locations
Where do these different sports take place?
a. basketball d. football g. tennis
b. volleyball e. hockey h. cricket
c. cycling f. racing i. athletics
(a) PITCH (b) COURT (c) TRACK
What about these? Match the sport with the correct location:
| ski
windsurfing baseball swimming billiards/snooker/pool |
lake
table pool pitch slope |
EXERCISE 4
Complete these sentences with the words provided in the box below:
match points race score sport
1. The Tour de France is a famous__________ which many cyclists would love to win.
2. Football is the most popular ___________in Britain.
3. In sports such as hockey and football, you try to__________ goals.
4. Tennis players fight to win every___________ .
5. If you don’t play well, you don’t score any_____________.
EXERCISE 5 | Should I PLAY or should I GO?
Other sports require the verb go: these are usually activities which you carry out alone and not with a group.
Fill in the blank with one of these verbs.
1. Do you__________ tennis?
2. I like to__________ windsurfing.
3. When I__________ swimming, I get very hungry.
4. We often_________ volleyball on the beach.
5. I can __________ cycling whenever I like, even when it’s raining.
6. The English ____________ cricket on a grass lawn.