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Unit 10 Lesson 2
Fostering goodwill through sports
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• listened to an interview on sports in a radio programme
• discussed some of the salient points of the interview
• written a letter to a friend living abroad expressing your attitude to sports
A Look at the list below of famous sports personalities. Do you recognise any of them? Share your knowledge with your friends and find out what each person is/was famous for.
Pele, Wasim Akram, Tendulkar, Klusener, Maradona, Sampras, Venus Williams, Saurav Ganguly, Brojen Das, Don Bradman, Niaz Morshed, Akram Khan
Now look at the following news captions. Try to guess what each news item is about:
1. BCB XI lakes first innings lead against MCC at Rajshahi
2.Hingis beats Fernandas
3. Agassi advances to Final
4. Cullinan bids farewell to GDI
Look at the captions again. What tense is used? If you wrote the information contained in the captions in complete sentences, what tense would you use? Now rewrite the four captions above in complete sentences.
B Think about some popular sports in Bangladesh. In pairs talk about:
1 Your favourite sport
2 Your favourite sports personality
3 Some good things about sports
4 Some bad things about sports
C A newspaper correspondent is interviewing a well-known professor on sports in a radio programme. Listen to the interview.
Now listen again and make notes of the points made for and against sports by the professor. Compare your notes with your partner.
D Discuss how you feel about the following views.
1 Sports and games arc not good for students.
2 Too much interest in sports can ruin your future.
3 Sports foster international brotherhood.
E Write half a page on 'the usefulness of sports* intended for parents who disapprove of sports (about 100 words).
Focus:
Skills.
Listening, speaking,
writing.
Functions.
Expressing opinions and views
. Grammar/Structure.
Present tense in news captions to express recent past, present perfect. Vocabulary.
fondness for, fostering, address, convince, captions.
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Unit 10 Lesson 2
Fostering goodwill through sports
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• listened to an interview on sports in a radio programme
• discussed some of the salient points of the interview
• written a letter to a friend living abroad expressing your attitude to sports
A Look at the list below of famous sports personalities. Do you recognise any of them? Share your knowledge with your friends and find out what each person is/was famous for.
Pele, Wasim Akram, Tendulkar, Klusener, Maradona, Sampras, Venus Williams, Saurav Ganguly, Brojen Das, Don Bradman, Niaz Morshed, Akram Khan
Now look at the following news captions. Try to guess what each news item is about:
1. BCB XI lakes first innings lead against MCC at Rajshahi
2.Hingis beats Fernandas
3. Agassi advances to Final
4. Cullinan bids farewell to GDI
Look at the captions again. What tense is used? If you wrote the information contained in the captions in complete sentences, what tense would you use? Now rewrite the four captions above in complete sentences.
B Think about some popular sports in Bangladesh. In pairs talk about:
1 Your favourite sport
2 Your favourite sports personality
3 Some good things about sports
4 Some bad things about sports
C A newspaper correspondent is interviewing a well-known professor on sports in a radio programme. Listen to the interview.
Now listen again and make notes of the points made for and against sports by the professor. Compare your notes with your partner.
D Discuss how you feel about the following views.
1 Sports and games arc not good for students.
2 Too much interest in sports can ruin your future.
3 Sports foster international brotherhood.
E Write half a page on 'the usefulness of sports* intended for parents who disapprove of sports (about 100 words).
Focus:
Skills.
Listening, speaking,
writing.
Functions.
Expressing opinions and views
. Grammar/Structure.
Present tense in news captions to express recent past, present perfect. Vocabulary.
fondness for, fostering, address, convince, captions.