Unit 3: Play hard, play fair

In this unit, pupils are going to find out about some young people who got involved in sports. For some, it has been a success story, others are still struggling for a better life. Sports can be a great way to learn about life, fair play and other parts of the world.

Pupils ...

find out about nidnight basketball by reading a newspapaer article

• follow the career of an internationally successful Swiss football player through an interview and write a text about her
• watch and discuss a film about young Africans who come to Europe to play football
• learn how to deal with problems of understanding in a conversation

They revise and learn the following language features:

• language to describe sports and leisure activities
• compound nouns, such as "team mate", and verb phrases, such as "do well"
• the form and use of the past perfect simple (he had won)
• time clauses with conjunctions such as "after, before, when, until", etc.

Links

Task A

• Lara's home page
• Swiss women's national soccer team

Task B

• Simple Wikipedia
• Opinions about African players in Europe

Focus on skills

• Cambridge Online Dictionary
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
• Lexipedia, a visual dictionary
• FIFA Fair Play Code