SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TPHCM TRƯỜNG THPT BÌNH CHÁNH
TỔ NGOẠI NGỮ
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the name of this competition?
2. Where is Boston?
3. What are these people doing?
Answer the following questions:
4. Who can take part in this competition?
1. race [reis](n):
2. athlete ['æθli:t](n):
athletic [æθ'letik](adj):
3. formally ['fɔːməli ](adv):
4. clock [klɔk](v):
5. female ['fi:meil](n):
male [meil](n):
6. association [əsəusi'ei∫n](n):
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VOCABULARY: Listen and Repeat
The Boston Marathon Race
FIFA is a football association
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T F 1. The Boston Marathon is held every year in the USA.
2. It began in 1897.
3. John McDermott clocked 2 hours 15 minutes and 10 seconds.
4. Women were officially allowed to participate in the race in 1957.
5. In 1984, 34 countries took part in the marathon.
6. According to the race’s rules, runners have to pass through the centre of Boston.
While you listen: Task 1. Listen and decide whether the statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
1. Where did John McDermott come from?
2. When did Kuscsik become the first official female champion?
3. How many women started and finished the race in 1972?
4. How many runners joined the Boston Marathon in 1994?
Task 2: Listen again and answer the questions:
Boston Marathon is held (1)__________ in the USA. It began in 1897. And the same year, John Mc Dermott, who (2)__________ from New York (3)__________ the first Boston Athletic Association Marathon. It took him 2 hours 50 minutes and 10 seconds (4)__________ the finish.
Until 1967 women were formally (5)__________ to take part in the Boston races. Kuscsik became the first official female champion in (6)__________. In that race, 8 women participated in and all of them (7)__________. Every people all over the world can (8)__________ it. The Boston race is about (9)__________ kilometers. Runners have to go through 13 (10)__________ during the race.
TASK 3 - Fill in each blank with one word or phrase in the box.
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