Active Skills for Reading Intro (Unit 4: The World of Sports)


CHAPTER 2 Are Sports Important?

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Are sports important?

Sports are all around us.we watch and read sports news. There are also sports bars and even sports-only channels on TV. In many countries, athletes make millions of dollars every year. But why are sports (like soccer and baseball) so important? They're only s games, right?

Our readers answer:

Sports bring people together. In 2006, our team qualified1 for the soccer world Cup for the first time.Everyone was happy. Rich and poor, old and young, men and women-everyone was dancing in the streets together!

Sports bring people together, but they divide them, too. Fans of different teams fight all the time-they yell and hit each other. For example: My brother plays high school baseball. Last week, his team played an important game. At the game, two parents fought about a call.2 come on ...baseball is only a game! Sports are so competitive these days. It's all about winning. When fights happen, the game isn't fun anymore.

Right now, some of the world's best soccer players are from African countries (Cameroon, Senegal, the Ivory Coast), and the 2010 world Cup was in south Africa. Yes, some athletes make a lot of money-maybe too much.But sporting events (like the world Cup) bring tourists and money to countries and help their people. And that was really good for Africa.

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Vocabulary Skill - Word Families

In this -chapter, you learned the word competitive. In Chapter 1, you learned the word compete. These words are in the same word family. You can build your vocabulary by learning word families.

A. Read the paragraph below. Find the missing parts of speech for the word families in the chart below. Add the words to the chart.

Every year, my high school has a spelling competition. Students from different grades compete against each other for first prize: $5000! This year, my friend Jon entered ... and he won! At the end, the last two competitors were Jon and a girl named Angie. The winning word was sarcophagus. After Jon spelled it everyone was quiet. Then the teacher said. "Congratulations. You're this year's winner!"
Noun Verb Adjective
1. 1. competition
2. 		competitive
2. win

B. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the chart in A.

  1. Leo is so ! He always wants to
  2. In the swimming race, one was a boy named James.
  3. Here's my lottery ticket. What are the numbers?
  4. There are five skaters in this year's ice-skating
Chapter - 2: Vocabulary Comprehension - Words in Context Chapter - 2: Real Life Skill - Dictionary Usage: Finding Past Tense Verbs

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