Unit 3

Swimming across Borders

Acknowledgement

• This power point presentation is part of the collaborative work of fifteen ELI / KAU female English language instructors.

• The project comprises the PowerPoint presentations which are presented to the students, the worksheets uploaded on the contributors websites and the revision units.

• The names of the teachers who collaborated in the project are as follows according to alphabetical order as per first name:

Acknowledgement (cont..)

1. Ms. Amany Abuliel

2. Dr. Amal Shousha

3. Ms. Dahlia Yuosri

4. Ms. Fatima Atteya

5. Ms. Gehan Ismail

6. Ms. Hanan Orabi

7. Ms. Heba Tantawy

8. Ms. Ingie Zakaria

9. Ms. Jehan Jahin

10. Ms. Marwa El Deeb

11. Ms. Nahed Moussa

12. Ms. Ragia Magdeldin

13. Ms. Sherine Eldeeb

14. Ms. Zainab Hefnawy

Main idea of the Unit

Look at the picture, answer the following questions:Who is the person in the uniform? Who are all the people around him? What are they doing? Why?

Main idea of the Unit

• This unit explores the characteristics, abilities, and achievements of athletes.

New Vocabulary

• Athletes (n.) : Someone who has sports abilities• A hero (n.): a man who is admired for doing

something extremely brave (heroine)• Admire (v.): to respect and like someone because

he/she has done something that you think is good.

• League (n.): professional baseball• Plane Crash: plane accident• Tolerate (v.): not have problems with• Talent (n.): be naturally good at something

More New Vocabulary

• Broke the record: was better than the best ever

• Outstanding (adj.): better than excellent• Border (n.): line separating two countries• Achievements (n.): things that you do

successfully• Challenge (n.): something that is interesting

because it is difficult

More New Vocabulary• Autobiography (n.): a book in which someone writes about

his own life.• Biography (n.): a book that tells what has happened in

someone’s life written by someone else.• Vita/ vitae (n.): a list of the most important events in a

person’s life with the dates of these events.• Marathon (n.): a 26-mile 385 yards (42.2k) race.• Cross- Country: distance race across land, instead of on

roads.• Championship (n.):a competition to find which player,

team etc is the best in a particular sport.• Ambassador(n.): representative of one’s country

Reading One: Swimming to open Borders PP. 41- 44

• It is the story of Lynne Cox, a long – distance swimmer who has not only broken records, but who also swims to

focus attention on and

to lessen political tensions

among countries.

Reading Passage p. 42Swimming To Open Up Borders

Reading Passage p. 42Swimming To Open Up Borders

Reading for Main Ideas

• Match the sentence beginnings on the left with those on the right

a. because she wants to encourage peace .

1 .Lynne Cox breaks a lot of records

b. because she is very fast and can tolerate cold water .

2 .Lynne Cox can swim in very cold water

c. because she has an extra layer of fat around her organs.

3 .Lynne Cox swims between countries

Answer Key

1. b

2. c

3. a

Reading for Details

1. Put the sentences in order by time; 1 for what happened first, 2 what happened second …etc.

…… Lynne breaks the English Channel record.

…… Lynne swims off the coast of Southern California.

…… Lynne swims across the Bering Strait.

…… Lynne swims between Argentina and Chile.

…… Lynne swims around the Cape of Good Hope.

Answer Key

The order is as follows:2

1

4

5

3

2.Complete the sentences with the number in the following list:

10 30 12 3 2.7 38 51. Lynne Cox started to swim when she was …… years old.

2. She swam …… miles across the Bering Strait.

3. The water in the Bering Strait was as cold as ….. degrees Fahrenheit.

4. Lynne swam the English Channel in less than …… hours.

5. When Lynne was swimming around the Cape of Good Hope, a …. foot shark came too close.

6. When she was swimming near Sweden, she had to watch out for …… foot- long jellyfish.

7. Most people would die after about ….. minutes in very cold water.

Answer Key

1. 5

2. 2.7

3. 38

4. 10

5. 12

6. 3

7. 30

Reading Two The Athlete’s Life P.45- 46

• It presents the professional achievements of three well- known athletes, Pele, Grete Waitz, and George Foreman, in Vitae form. A vita is a list of the most important events in a person’s life with the dates of these events.