Read about good and bad luck.
Read about an ancient ball game.
Study words related to sport, and words ending in -ive.
Study modal verbs of probability and of obligation.
Listen to eight short texts on the topic of sport.
Review what you have studied so far.
Post messages about sports. (This is an optional activity designed to give you extra writing practice.)
Write about probability and describe the rules of a game.
Study how to give instructions.
Listen to different accents.
Search for information about unusual sports. (This is an optional activity designed to give you extra reading and writing practice.)
Write about a game or sport that you used to play, or write about sport and recreation nowadays.
Talk to your tutor about the unit and the topic you wrote about in Tutorial 2.
Review the work in the unit.
Send us your feedback on this unit.
Test what you have studied in this unit.
Practise the language you study in this unit, and improve your reading, listening and speaking skills.
crops
crops (n)
plants that are grown for food
decapitate
decapitate (v)
to cut off someone's head
diameter
diameter (n)
the distance across a circle
flourish
flourish (v)
to be in a successful or dominant state
placebets
place bets (v)
to gamble
Hispanic
pre-Hispanic (adj)
before the arrival of the Spanish in Central and South America
ritual
ritual (adj, n)
associated with a rite, that is, something done regularly and in the same way, usually for religious purposes
enactment
re-enactment (n)
a dramatization
sloping
sloping (adj)
inclining; at an angle