Summer ProjectThe London Olympic Games 2012

Olympic Quiz

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• http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13797097

The Olympic Games 2012, London

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/world_olympic_dreams/9413017.stm

Watch the clip and decide what the video is about

• An introduction to the athletes

• An introduction to the games

• An introduction to London as a city

• An introduction to football at the Olympics

The London Olympics• We are going to watch the

clip again. Can you guess what these numbers are about?

• 80,000• 1,000,000• 17,000• 205• 26• 20• 500• 8

EXAMPLE

I think 1,000,000 is the amount of pounds the Olympics cost.

No, that’s well too cheap. I think it’s the number of athletes in the Olympics.

A million athletes, are you crazy?

Answers

• A. 4• B.1• C.2• D.7• E.6• F.3• G. 8• H.5

Listen and grab as you hear the ideas (competition)

Answers

1. The Olympic park is in a place called Stratford.2. Usain Bolt smashed the 100 M record.3. Tom Daley was the youngest 4. Kelly Holmes won two gold medals in Athens.5. Football, Archery, Water Polo are Olympic Sports.6. Table tennis, Taekwondo, Judo are Olympic Sports. 7. Women’s Boxing will be an Olympic sport for the first

time8. Olympic football games will be held around the country9. The Olympics brings everyone together10.The two presenters are supporting Team Great Britain

and Team Jamaica

Can you match these sentences by guessing

to get a glimpse of The Olympic park

to be in the heart of a record

To smash A team/ a country/ a sports start

To spread across the biggest sports stars

To break an area

To be twinned with a record

To cheer on a place/ country/ city

NOW – listen and check

ANSWERS

to get a glimpse of the biggest sports stars

to be in the heart of the Olympic park

To smash a record

To spread across an area

To break a record

To be twinned with a place/ country/ city

To cheer on a team/ a country/ a sports star

Which of these is stronger – to break or to smash a record?

Write the collocation from before on your white board as the meaning is shown

The central or most important part.To be in the

heart of somewhere

For two cities to have a special relationship with each

other.

To be twinned

with a placeTo do something better than the best known speed, time, number, etc. previously achieved.

To break a record

•To defeat someone or to destroy something completely.

To smash a record•To see something or someone for a very short time or only partly.

To get a glimpse of (someone/ something) the biggest sports

stars

to (cause to) cover, reach or have an effect on a wider or increasing area

To spread to an area

•to shout loudly in order to encourage someone in a competition.

To cheer on someone/ to cheer someone on

Write the collocation from before on your white board as the meaning is shown

• To see something or someone for a very short time or only partly.

• To have a special relationship with another place.

• To do something better than the best known speed, time, number, etc. previously achieved.

• To defeat someone or to destroy something completely.

• The central or most important part.• to shout loudly in order to encourage someone

in a competition.

• to (cause to) cover, reach or have an effect on a wider or increasing area

Can you complete these questions?

1. Which sporting star would you like ___A______? Why?2. Which country(ies) at the Olympics are you going to

______B_______ and why?3. How many Olympic records has the Vietnamese Olympic

swim team ____C_______? Why? Why not?4. Which city would you like HCMC to be ___D_____ and

why?5. What buildings should be ____E__________? Why?6. How will Olympic fever ____F____ Saigon?

Can you complete these questions?

• Which sporting star would you like to get a glimpse of? Why?

• Which country(ies) at the Olympics are you going to cheer on and why?

• How many Olympic records has the Vietnamese Olympic swim team broken/ smashed? Why? Why not?

• Which city would you like HCMC to be twinned with and why?

• What buildings should be in the heart of an Olympic Village? Why?

• How will Olympic fever spread to Saigon?

Going to a travel agency to book a trip

Role Play

A) You are a travel agent.

• A customer comes to you who wants to go to the Olympic games in London.

• Think of seven reasons why they should go!!!!

B) You are thinking about going to London for the Olympics.

• Think of six questions to ask the travel agent about the games!!!

Does the customer book a trip?

B: I’m thinking about going to the London Olympics next month!!!!

Language from the video for the travel agent to use:

Presenting information

• When you think about the Olympic, it’s easy just to think about. . .

• But did you know . . . ?

• What about . . . ?

• The Olympic Games just isn’t about . . .