IN THIS UNIT YOU WILL
LEARN HOW TO
• scan a text to find information quickly
• answer True I False/ Not Given questions
• complete a summary of a text.
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Can you name these sports?
Match the sports 1-9 with the descriptions a-l in the box. Each sport matches several
descriptions.
1 hockey
2 tennis
3 volleyball
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It's a team sport.
You score goals.
There's a goalkeeper.
You earn coloured belts.
4 football
5 rugby
6 baseball
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7 table tennis
8 martial arts
9 basketball
You hit the ball over a net.
You hit the ball with a bat.
You can play singles or doubles.
You mustn't run with the ball.
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It's played with a ball.
You tackle other players.
You use a racket.
You play on grass.
Which of these sports have you played or watched? Which would you like to try?
TRUE I FALSE I NOT GIVEN]
In this type of task you have to say if a statement is True (it agrees with the information in the
passag�), Fa�se (it does not agree with the information in the passage -it says the opposite, or
somet�ing d1�er�nt) or whether the information in the statement is Not Given in the passage
(there is nothing in the passage to indicate if it is true or false). You must give your answer only
according to what is in the passage -you must not use your own knowledge about the topic.
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The questions are in the same order as the information in the text.
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Read the text in ONE MINUTE.
Tell your partner anything you can remember.
Don't worry about giving exact information.
You could use these expressions.
There was something about ...
I don't remember the details, but it involved ...
There's a game which is a bit like . . .
UNUSUAL SPORTS ..,�
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Do you ever get bored with the same old
sports? If you're tired of tennis, fed up with
football or bored of basketball, don't
worry. There are plenty of new and
unusual sports out there for you to try.
Many of these are a mix of existing sports,
sometimes with a local element added.
Bossaball, for example, is a mix of football
an.d volleyball, played on an inflatable
pitch with a trampoline in the middle. To
make it more exciting, it also has elements
of Brazilian martial arts!
If you are very good at horse riding, you
could try the national sport of Afghanistan,
buzkashi. Many versions have been played
in the Central Asian region for hundreds of
years. The game involves players on
horseback trying to get hold of a dead
goat. The Afghan Buzkashi Federation
wants the game to spread throughout the
world and has finally written down the
rules because they hope to get Olympic
status for the sport.
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A sport that is more likely to become famous is
kabaddi. It is popular in India and other parts of South
Asia. It is similar in some ways to the game called 'tag'
or 'it' which schoolchildren play. One person is 'it' and
has to catch the others. In kabaddi, a 'raider' from one
team tries to tag a player from the other team and
then return to their own half of the field without
getting caught. In some versions of the game, the
raider must chant the word 'kabaddi' as he returns
to his place. Kabaddi is good fun, good exercise
and doesn't need any equipment. It is played at
the Asian Games.
f!) There is an unusual sport which describes
itself as a 'classic mix of brains and brawn'.
The game, called 'chess boxing', involves a
round of chess and then a round of boxing,
then another of chess, and so on. There is one
minute between rounds. The first chess boxing world
championship took place in 2003 in Amsterdam and was
won by a Dutchman, lepe Rubingh. Since then, it has become
more popular, particularly in Germany, the UK, India and
Russia. It is a difficult sport, as players need to be very good·
at two very different activities and be able to switch quickly
between the two.
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Finally, an unusual sport that will be familiar to most of us
is roshambo, which began in China about 2000 years ago
and spread gradually to the rest of the world. Played by
young and old, in the UK it is known as 'rock-paper­
scissors'. It is surprising that it is called a sport and
taken so seriously: there's a World Rock Paper Scissors
Society and a league which holds championships
every year. So, whatever kinds of sport you like, there
is something new and interesting for you to try.
� Quickly scan the text to find the paragraph which contains information
about these sports as quickly as you can.
1 a sport which is trying to get into the Olympic games
2 a sport which has been played for more than a thousand years and
is based on an activity most of us know
3 a sport influenced by two very popular sports
4 a sport which may involve repeating a word
5 a sport which involves two activities which are very unlike each other
Not Given questions you must scan
the text to find the information as
quickly as possible, as you also
need time to read a few
sentences in detail.
� The following questions relate to the sections you just found. Decide if they are
True or False.
1 Players of chess boxing only need to reach a high level in one of the activities.
2 Buzkashi got written rules long after the game first started.
3 Roshambo can be played by anyone, even children and the elderly.
4 Bossaball is played on grass.
5 It could be quite expensive to play kabaddi.
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Does this statement agree with the information in the passage?
Write True, False or Not Given.
1 Kabaddi is only played by men.
Hint: You ONLY need to read the paragraph about kabaddi, which is paragraph C.
You will already know from your initial skim reading that information about kabaddi
is not found anywhere else in the text.
� Read only the relevant paragraphs. Is this information True (write T) or Not Given
(write NG)?
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Bossaball is only played in Brazil.
Buzkashi is sometimes played with a sheep instead of a goat.
There are different versions of the game kabaddi.
Chess boxing is played in several different countries.
The roshambo world champion is from China.
Answer True, False or Not Given to these
questions about the text.
1 People play bossaball on a soft surface.
2 Buzkashj is an Olympic sport.
3 Kabaddi is often played in schools.
4 lepe Rubingh invented chess boxing.
5 lepe Rubingh is from Germany.
6 People consider roshambo a
serious sport.
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Don't waste time going through
the whole passage to find the
information. Not Given answers
will relate to one part of the text.
Once you have read the relevant
part in detail, if you can't find the
information, choose Not Given.
SUMMARY COMPLETION ]
In this type of task you have to choose words to complete a summary of the text, or
part of the text.
Sometimes the instructions tell you to choose words from the passage to fill the gaps.
Sometimes you are given words in a box and you have to choose the correct ones.
Not all the words in the box will be needed.
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In the task below you have to fill the gaps by choosing words from the box.
Look at gap 1 and follow the steps in the example. Then complete gaps 2-6.
Example
Notice that gap 1 is followed by an adjective (new) and a noun (sports).
This tells you that the word you need could be an adverb or an adjective.
There are adjectives in the box, but no adverbs.
The adjectives are boring and strange.
A writer is unlikely to suggest boring sports.
The answer is strange. This matches what the text says.
Complete the summary using the list of words A-L below.
If you have had enough of the ordinary sports people play, you can try a number of
1 _K_ new sports. Some of these were created when people 2 __ two well-known
sports. Sometimes they added a 3 __ from the part of the world where they live.
Bossaball is an example of this. It takes volleyball and football, adds a trampoline and
some Brazilian martial arts.
Buzkashi, a sport from Afghanistan, is played on 4 __ and uses a dead goat instead of
a ball! People in Afghanistan would like this sport to become international.
Chess boxing is a sport where you need to 5 __ rapidly from one type of activity to
another. You need to be 6 __ and also fit. It is becoming more and more popular and
now holds world championships.
A boring
G mixed
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B change
H moving
C clever
I serious
GRAMMAR FOCUS: COMPARATIVES
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E horses
K strange
F join
L trampolines
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Complete these comparative sentences with your opinions on the sports
in the text.
1 ___Ka_ba� d�d_i __ is faster than ___
ro_�h_a_m_b_o __
2 ________ is more dangerous than ________
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Kabaddi is a sport that is more
likely to become famous.
Since then it has become
more popular ...
is more exciting than ________
is harder than ___ ___
is not as unusual as ________
UNIT 06 'READING