Step by Step 3000 Unit 6

Here are three short extracts from a conversation between a group of friends. They are talking about football supporters. Listen carefully and answer the following questions. Section 1

I. In this section, the speaker talks about his neighbors. Write down the key words that he uses to describe them on different occasions.

a. in daily life: nice / friendly / warm / affectionate b. after a football match: drunk / aggressive / scream /shout / push people around / smash glasses / monsters 2. From what you have heard, what inferences can you draw about the speaker's attitude towards

football fans?

He finds it difficult to understand why normal, nice people behave so badly at football matches. Section 2

3. According to the third speaker in this section, how do Brazilians behave when they go to football matches?

enjoy themselves / no aggression or violence Section 3

4. From what you have heard in this section, what are the other matches that large crowds go to besides football ones? rugby / tennis 5. When people go to Wimbledon, how do they behave? They sit there silently throughout. Tapescript: Section 1

M: I have neighbors who, who are very nice, friendly, warm, affectionate people, and I live near a football ground, Tottenham, and on Saturday I avoid them, because they come back from the match about 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, drunk, aggressive — they scream, they shout, and ... After the World Cup Fi-, after the World Cup when England got knocked out, I was in my local pub and they came in and they started pushing people around and smashing glasses, and I was really frightened and I walked out, and I don't understand, I re-

ally don't understand what it is about a football match that can turn ordinary, friendly people into monsters. Section 2

JE: But do you think that's so of a lot of football fans? I mean, I've heard other people say they've

gone to football matches and there's been absolutely no trouble in the terraces at all, and people have been ... sat there, you know, quite happily, opposing teams next to each other. J: Oh but it obviously does happen a lot. I mean, you see it on the news. What happens when

British fans go to Europe? There's always trouble, isn't there?

M: Well, but it's, it's not ... it's ... In Brazil, for example, where I've also been to football

matches, people go to enjoy themselves, and there's no aggression or violence, or ... there's

nothing like that. It seems peculiarly, it seems particular to England and a few other countries that football provides people with the opportunity to show their most violent, aggressive natures. Section 3

A: But perhaps it's just a function of people getting together in crowds, large groups of people

getting into enclosed spaces together.

J: But large crowds go to other kinds of matches — go to rugby matches, go to Wimbledon to

watch tennis .. .

M: Go to pop concerts .. .

J; If they go to Wimbledon to watch tennis, they sit there silently throughout.

A: Yes, but it's interesting that one of the solutions that the police have, think might work is to

have all-seater matches, for example, where everybody's seated ..

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win

mimic warfare

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Part

IfF Sports and entertainment choices

Key words:

Paralympics sports competition

physical or mental limitations disabilities choices of entertainment Vocabulary:

spinal cord / wheelchair / scuba diving / yoga / visual interpreter

A Listen to the first part of a report about the sports and entertainment choices for

disabled people. Write down in Column A all the time expressions mentioned in the passage. Then draw lines to match these time expressions with the facts and events in Column B.

Tapescript:

The Olympics and the Paralympics are separate movements. But they have always been

held in the same year. And since 1988, they have also been held in the same city. The International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee signed an agreement in 2001 to secure this connection.

The Paralympic Games grew out of a sports competition held in 1948

in England. A doctor named Ludwig Guttmann organized it for men who suffered spinal cord injuries in World War Two. Four years later, it became an international event as competitors from the Netherlands took

part.

Then, in 1960, the first Paralympics were held in Rome. Four hundred athletes from 23 countries competed. By 2004, the Paralympic Games in Athens had almost 4,000 athletes from 136 countries.

B Listen to the whole report and give brief answers to the questions you hear.

1. wheelchair tennis and basketball 2. a. teach all kinds of sports to disabled people b. give healthy people a chance to try a sport as if they were disabled c. prepare athletes for the Paralympics 3. the ability to move his legs 4. It enabled him to connect his body and mind again. 5. a. wireless earphones b. visual interpreters

c. MoPix

Tapescript:

The Olympics and the Paralympics are separate movements. But they have always been held in the same year. And since 1988, they have also been held in the same city. The International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee signed an agreement in 2001 to secure this connection.

The Paralympic Games grew out of a sports competition held in 1948 in England. A doctor named Ludwig Guttmann organized it for men who suffered spinal cord injuries in World War Two. Four years later, it became an international event as competitors from the Netherlands took part.

Then, in 1960, the first Paralympics were held in Rome. Four hundred athletes from 23 countries competed. By 2004, the Paralympic Games in Athens had almost 4,000 athletes from 136 countries.

Athletes may have physical or mental limitations; they may be blind or in wheelchairs. Yet sometimes they perform better than athletes without disabilities.

Wheelchair tennis is a popular sport. So is basketball. In fact, there are more than 100 professional teams playing wheelchair basketball.

Special wheelchairs for athletes are lightweight and designed for quick moves. For people who want to go really fast in their chairs, there is a Power Wheelchair Racing Association.

In the State of Utah there is a place called the National Ability Center. It teaches all kinds of sports to people with all kinds of physical and mental disabilities. It even gives friends and family members a chance to try a sport as if they were disabled.

A reporter from The Washington Post wanted to know what it would be like for a blind person to use a climbing wall. So, protected by a safety line, the newspaper reporter closed his eyes and started to feel for places to put his hands and feet. Trainers on the ground urged him on: \"Take your time. You can do it. \" Finally he reached the top.

At the National Ability Center people can learn to ride horses and mountain bikes. They can try winter mountain sports, and learn scuba diving and other water activities. The center also prepares athletes for the Paralympics.

For disabled people interested in yoga, there are special stretching exercises. Matthew Sanford knows about these. He has been in a wheelchair ever since a car accident when he lost the ability to

move his legs. He was thirteen years old at the time. That was almost thirty years ago.

Matthew Sanford says he has had two lives: one before he was thirteen and the other after. He had to learn to live with a new reality. For many years, he was told to build up the strength in his arms and forget about his legs.

But he says yoga enabled him to reconnect with the thirteen-year-old boy who loved his body. He says the exercises and special breathing of yoga let him connect his body and mind again.

Now Matthew Sanford teaches yoga at his studio in the State of Minnesota. He also travels to talk to people about living with a disability. He says feeling connected to our body is a powerful part of living—whether we have a disability or not.

Today there are more and more choices of entertainment for people Unit 6 For the Glory of Sport with disabilities.

Theaters may offer wireless earphones to make the sound louder for people with limited hearing. Some provide a visual interpreter to describe a performance or a play for a person who is blind or has limited sight.

And some movie theaters offer a new device called MoPix, for Motion Picture Access. For a person unable to hear the movie, it shows the words the actors are saying. For a person unable to see the movie, it provides a spoken description of what is happening. Questions:

1. What are the popular sports for athletes with mental or physical disabilities? 2. What does the National Ability Center do? 3. What does Matthew Sanford lose in a car accident? 4. According to Matthew Sanford, how did yoga help him?

5. What choices of entertainment are there in theaters for people with disabilities?