Project Time: June 2014

Jumbled paragraph and gapped text

By: Lucía Sosa

Level: intermediate

1-     put the paragraphs in order:

a- Gonzalo Higuain, Rodrigo Palacio and Messi himself all passed up clear opportunities chances to put Argentina in front before Gotze struck seven minutes from time.

b- Argentina captain Lionel Messi regretted his side's missed chances after Germany beat his side 1-0 in the FIFA World Cup Final™ on Sunday thanks to Mario Gotze's extra time goal.

c- And Messi insisted it was hard to take consolation from carrying his country to the final for the first time in 24 years in the immediate aftermath of the defeat.

d- "There is sadness to finish in this way, I think we deserved a little more today", said the Barcelona star. "The best chances were ours and between the forwards we couldn't take them," he told Direct TV.

e- "After a long time not getting past the quarter-finals we managed to get to the final, but today there is the disappointment of having lost in the last minutes of extra time."

f- Messi was still crowned as the player of the tournament for his performances and four goals in seven matches. However, he insisted the individual award was scant consolation for missing out on a much bigger collective prize.

g- "We wanted to win the World Cup for all the people in Argentina and we couldn't do it," he said. "We tried, but we didn't have the luck we had in other games.

1-     ____

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2-   Read this article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6). There’s one sentence that you won’t need.

In 1901 Uruguay played against Argentina in their first ever match, a close contest won by Argentina 3-2. Prior to 1916, Uruguay played more than 30 matches, of which all but one were against Argentina. The inaugural Copa America provided Uruguay with more varied opposition. 1-(___) The following year Uruguay hosted the competition, and retained the title by winning every game. The 1919 Copa America saw Uruguay's first defeat in the tournament, a 1–0 defeat in a playoff with Brazil which went to two periods of extra time, the longest Copa America match in history.



In 1924 the Uruguay team traveled to Paris to become the first South American team to compete in the Olympic Games. In contrast to the physical style of the European teams of the era, Uruguay played a style based around short passes,and won every game, defeating Switzerland 3–0 in the gold medal match. 2-(___) FIFA assumed the responsibility of the organization of the Football Games to be played by FIFA rules and the tournaments would be recognized as World Championships. It only happened twice (1924/1928 Summer Olympics Games) until the creation of it own FIFA World Championship (FIFA World Cup) in 1930.

The team that beat Brazil in the 1950 FIFA World Cup final to win Uruguay's secondFIFA World Cup



Following the double Olympic triumph, Uruguay was chosen as the host nation for the first World Cup, held in 1930, the centenary of Uruguay's first constitution. 3- (___). Due to the refusal of some European teams to participate in the first World Cup, the Uruguayan Football Association urged other countries to reciprocate by boycotting the 1934 World Cup played in Italy. For the 1938 World Cup, France was chosen as host, contrary to a previous agreement to alternate the Championships between South America and Europe, so Uruguay again refused to participate.



Uruguay again won the World Cup in 1950, beating host Brazil in one of the biggest upsets in World Cup History. The final was at the Maracanã Stadium in Brazil. Uruguay came from behind to beat the host nation in a match which would become known as the Maracanazo.

4- (___)

After their fourth place finish in the 1954 World Cup, the team had mixed performances and after the fourth place finish in 1970, their dominance, quality and performance dropped.

5- (___). They reached an all time low, and were at one time 76th in the FIFA rankings.



However, in 2010 a new generation of footballers created a team that is considered to be the best in the last 4 decades, and caught attention of many, by finishing fourth in the World Cup. A year later, they won the Copa America for the first time in 16 years and broke the record for the most successful team in South America.

6- (___). Two days after the match, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee banned Suárez for nine international matches. It was the longest such ban in World Cup history, exceeding the eight-match ban handed to Italy's Mauro Tassotti for breaking the nose of Spain's Luis Enrique at USA '94.Suárez was also banned from taking part in any football-related activity (including entering any stadium) for four months and fined CHF100,000 (approx. £65,700/€82,000/US$119,000).

Options:

a- In the 1928 Summer Olympics Uruguay went to Amsterdam to defend their title, again winning the gold medal after defeating Argentina 2–1 in the final.

b- They were no longer a world football power and failed to qualify for the World Cup on 5 occasions, in the last 9 competitions.

c- Victories over Chile and Brazil along with a tie against Argentina enabled Uruguay to win the tournament.

d- During a match against Italy in the 2014 World Cup, forward Luis Suárez bit Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini on his left shoulder.

e- Uruguay are the current reigning South American champions, having won the 2011 Copa América.

f- During the World Cup, Uruguay won all its matches, and converted a 1–2 half-time deficit to a 4–2 victory against Argentina at the Estadio Centenario.

g- Many Brazilians had to be treated for shock after the event, such was the surprise of Uruguay's victory.

Funny pictures

Level: Primary
Source: Excellent 1

Have your students dress up and wear funny wigs, glasses and the lot for descritions.

I’ve got fair hair, blue glasses and a tie. Joaquín

I’ve got green hair, a big nose, glasses and a black moustache. Guadalupe

I’ve got purple hair, big glasses and a black moustache.

TKT

Living is easy with eyes closed, John Lennon

And here I am, getting ready to write an application to Cambridge University for a "special arrangement" for my blind student expecting to take Cambridge English First exam.

It's been three years since she started coming to our school and what a challenge that has been for all of us working there. Not only because our whole paradigm of teaching did fall down but also because we wondered whether we would be prepared, trained, ready for such a student.

Having finished secondary school, her aim was to move on to become a translator, however, she came across a series of bureaucratic obstacles, which she is about to pull down in the near future. Now, as far as English studies are concerned, things have not turned up to be easy, either. How do you think she has got to this point? Have you ever seen or heard about materials and resources specially designed for blind students? It is the work of dedicated teachers from the "Resource Centre for blind and partially-sighted students" from ANEP (Uruguay) and devoted English teachers from La Casona del Sur - ELT which has enabled her to be attending university and to be ready to sit for a Cambridge University exam. None of these would have been possible without her family's support, either. It is them who, day after day, night after night, have transcribed books, articles, textbooks, written tests and the lot into Braille using Braille note-takers or a Perkins typewriter.

The University of Cambridge points out that we, teachers, should make sure our blind students practise with any sample material available. Easy said than done. How can we, teachers, have access to sample materials specially designed for our blind students? The handbooks and sample papers that the University provides are in pdf which cannot be read by the screen-reading software available to us. Neither do we possess a Braille printer. That is the reason why I am sharing this with the elt community and calling for its solidarity in case you have been through the same and/or know ways to find an appropriate pdf reader or access FCE exam papers in Braille.

 Ana Cabral

Footballer's template

By teacher Matías
Level: primary

Students choose a footballer. They colour his hair, eyes, t-shirt, etc. Then, cut and paste.

Next step: physical description.

His name is ...
He is ... years old.
He's from ... .
He's got .... hair.
He's got ... eyes.
He's wearing a ... t-shirt. 
He likes ...

Project Time: Brazuca

By Germán Rivas
Level: CAE

Brazuca, which is the official ball used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was created by Adidas; this brand is in charge of designing the ball for each world cup that takes place since 1970 as was set down, and this time wasn’t the exception. 

For the final match, when the last two countries are competing, “Brazuka final Rio” is going to be used. This ball has been inspired by the world cup, having a variation of colour with the original one. 

Although the original one was presented in September 2013, three days before the setting up of the groups, the Brazuka final Rio was launched in December of 2013.

A duplication of the ball was delivered to all of the teams competing on the FIFA World Cup, in order to give enough time to practice with them and letting the football players get use to the feeling of playing with this ball in a field.

Its name was selected with a poll where over a million of Brazilian football fans take part. This poll was organized by Adidas and the Local Organizing Committee. There were three different options: “Brazuca”, “Bossa Nova” and “Carnavalesca”.

Brazuca was chosen with a majority of votes. The meaning of this word is to express national Brazilian pride and also is known to be a way of naming the Brazilian people abroad. Meanwhile, “Bossa Nova” is the name of a genre in Brazilian music quite popular internationally. In addition, “Carnavalesca” makes reference to the extremely colourful carnivals that are celebrated each summer.

Two and a half years of test were needed for reach at a final result with the Brazuca. Also, is considered the most tasted ball of Adidas. It has been used by around 600 football players and 30 teams, in 10 different countries across three continents.

When presented to the public, was stated that it is more aerodynamic than Jabulani, the ball used for South Africa. The material of Brazuca is said to be better for its use, preserving the weight and shape even in the heaviest storm.

As far as I’m concerned, there’s a good chance that you find an original duplication in the market, due to the commercialism that this ball has. On the other hand, there are also a great number of fake Brazucas, being commercialized as If they were original.

The horrible quality of these fake balls is what reveals them, making them not only illegal but also a waste of money for the ones who buy it.

A number nearly to 10.000 of fake brazucas were discovered by the Uruguayan government, who later destroy a part of them and the other was donated.

Germán giving his presentation

German´s activity for his classmates: writing

Exercise: Writing

* ARTICLE:

You have seen that there’s a competition in a school magazine:

Which is, in your opinion, the best football team? 

They are all so different and so similar.

You can make your nomination 

by sending us an article, 

giving your reasons and 

expressing why you like it so much.

Write your article for the magazine (Around 120-180 words).

*LETTER:

The World Cup is taking place and you are an English football fan.  The FIFA have sent a letter asking for opinion to some fans around the world and you are lucky to receive one. 

Unfortunately, we do not have an idea of which country should be selected for the next World Cup, taking place some years ahead.

It would be excellent to have an opinion of the different fans around the world.

It is required to tell us which facilities this place could have for the football players. In addition, why the weather of this country is suitable for everyone and the economy it has for building the stadiums needed.

At the moment of writing, you are also free to add any opinion that you think would be important to let us know.

Write your letter for the FIFA in the appropriate style (Around 120-180 words).

Project time: Luis Suarez and FIFA

By Matías Pérez
Level: intermediate

•Brazil 2014 isn’t the first time that Fifa and people all over the world have discriminated Suarez.

•Fifa has  big problems with Uruguay and one of its best football players who is Suarez. Not only with the punishments against him, FIFA pretends to humiliate Suarez.

• For example..

Mexico 86, this hand was admitted by Argentina and all the world as “The Hand of God” 

And this???? People accused Suarez of “Cheater” . The referee showed Suarez the red card, which is correct, but many people started to insult him.

England Federation of Football banned Suarez for 8 games for calling Evra“Black”.

That is correct, but…

England Federation of Football   banned Terry for only 4 matches for calling  Ferdinand “Fucking Black  

Cunt”

Suarez didn’t give a handshake to Evra, or Evra didn’t give a handshake to Suarez?

Look at this… 

Evra hid his hand the moment Suarez went to greet him.

Suarez bit Ivanovic, and FA punished Suarez with 10 matches.

The same happened with Jermaine Defoe, who bit Mascherano, but the punishment was only a Yellow Card.

Matías giving his presentation.

Matías' activity for his classmates:

For questions 1-5, use the world given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.

1.       In Uruguay it is prohibited to  ______ alcohol in the stadiums.                             SALE

2.       FIFA _________  to Suarez was to ban him  9 matches and 4 months without any activity related with Football                                                                                                    PUNISH

3.       Evra ________  his hand the moment Suarez went to greet him.                       HIDDEN

4.       The England Federation of Football, ________  Suarez for  8 games for

calling  Evra“Black”.                                                                                                                  BAN

5.       All Uruguayans ________that Suarez’s bite  to Chellini wasn’t

 a good action                                                                                                KNOWLEDGE

Project Time: The biggest Uruguay fan

By Camila Durán
Level: FCE

The biggest Uruguay supporter out of the country

Ivan Eginsson Esturland,   is a man  from Faroe island who has a huge crazy   passion for Uruguay.   He was recently known for starring  Oca’s* advertisement for the 2014 World Cup.

He was always interested in geography, since he was a child he studied about lots of countries and that was the way he found Uruguay and started investigating about it.

When he was a teenager he got an interest in football and when he watched by chance a video of Uruguay playing for the qualifiers  to Italy 90’s world cup he fell in love with the way of playing that the footballers had, with  the   sky-blue t-shirt but what really caught his attention were the   supporters and the passion that they showed  cheering  the team.

 Actually he knows a lot of Uruguay in general, he said that every 19^th of June** he changes his profile picture for Artigas picture, he even has an Artigas painting in his living room. He also knows a lot about Uruguayan  football, not just this generation, he knows about historical players, his idol is Luis Cubilla but he got the chance to know the famous  Alcides Ghiggia in his first visit to our country in 2008,  and got a picture with him, that picture was what caught the attention of the publicists of the advertisement.

Ivan came to Uruguay for the first time in 2008 and he came 6 times since then, he even rented a house in La Paloma during the summer and he has already been in the 19 main cities. 

 He says that he would love to move to Uruguay, even though  he thinks you have to be quite rich to live here.

He works selling things for fishers, due to his work he was able to see Uruguay playing in several countries for several events, actually he organizes his schedule according to where Uruguay will be playing.

Despite his big passion for Uruguay he doesn’t speak Spanish, but he can sing the whole anthem perfectly by heart, he even got it as his ring tone, and he yells ¡arriba la celeste!”, in an almost perfect Spanish

 His wife Kinga  in the advertisement says that is pretty difficult to be married with a Uruguay supporter because he always wakes her up in the middle of the night just to see the matches, however she  ended up being a Uruguay supporter too, she says that  she got her own sky  blue t-shirt, and  she has  made a painting of Artigas, and another  of our flag, both are hung in their living room together with a lot of posters, t-shirts, and other things of Uruguay.

Currently Ivan is in Brazil seeing the World Cup but he is planning to travel to Montevideo if Uruguay makes it to the final, he confessed that one of his dreams is having Faroes island and Uruguay faced in a match, who would he support if this got to happen?

* OCA is a Uruguayan credit card

**June 19th is José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguay national hero's birthday.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8jX2xPdgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJUcrVa94k

Camila's activity for her classmates

Multiple choice:

1: Ivan got really interested in Uruguay when:

A: he started studying about it.

B: he saw the country’s football team.

c: he came to the country.

D: his wife made a painting of Artigas.

2: The thing that attracted him the most when he first watched a match was:

A the sky blue  t-shirt

B: the way of playing of the footballers

C: how supportive was the people

D: the anthem

3: His wife says that:

A: is annoying to be awaken at night because of the matches.

B: Ivan is crazy.

C: is not easy to be married with an Uruguay supporter.

D: she would like moving to Uruguay.

4: Ivan’s biggest dream is:

A: traveling around Uruguay.

B: moving to Uruguay.

C: meeting Luis Cubilla.

D: having his country and ours faced in a match.

Camila checking the answers

Project Time: Brazil & Neymar

By Nahuel Barreto
Level: Elementary

The FIFA World Cup this year is in Brazil. Brazil has played all world cups. This year Brazil is a favourite to win the World Cup. Brazil  has already won five World Cups.

—Brazil is a touristic country. Its beaches are beautiful.

Its official language is Portuguese. Brazil is the largest country in South America.

—I chose Neymar because he  plays very well.

—His real name is Neymar Santos da Silva Junior

He was born  on 5 February, 1992. Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo.

—His T-shirt number is 10(in Brazil)

—He played for  Santos Futebol Clube (2009-2013) and now he plays in Fútbol Club Barcelona.

He should play quietly.

He must score a goal

He mustn´t get a yellow or red card.

 
Nahuel giving his presentation.


Nahuel's activity for his classmates: hangman.

Project Time: Mascots

By María Eugenia García
Level: FCE

Maru gave her presentation using the projection of her power point. She talked about the World Cup Mascots and she prepared a Use of English exercise for her classmates.

Choose the most suitable alternative below to fill in the gaps in the following text.

Each FIFA World Cup 1)______ 1966 has had its own mascot. The designs show  a characteristic feature of the host country.

The World Cup 2)_____ us many things, fun is one of them, and mascots for each event are a very important part of this, too.

The first appearance was in England.

1-   A) by       B) for         C) since     D) from

2-    A)tells       B)gives         C) thinks    D)says

“Willie” England 1966  was the first.

A cute 3)_____footballer who welcomed the participants, wearing a shirt with the flag of Britain. He was widely accepted by the people especially from British people.

3-   A)kitten     B)puppy       

C) calves    D)cub

"Juanito" Mexico 1970

Juanito was a child wearing football clothes with Mexican colours, and he had a big Mexican hat that had on it the words "MEXICO 70".  He wanted to 4)______  fair play.

4-   A)reflect     B)imagine     C)show     D)represent

"Tip and Tap" Germany 1974

Two children that wanted to inspire the union and their t-shirts had the   WM74  on them (World Cup 74- Weltmeisterschaft in German). They pretended to be symbolize of the union of both Germanies, which at that time were separated.

"Gauchito Mundialito" Argentina 1978

He was a little boy that used  to wear the colours of Argentina, and he had details of a cowboy(a neckerchief, a hat and a horsewhip) so for that he was called Gauchito. His puma clothes arose some curiosity.

"Naranjito" Spain 1982

A big change appeared, where humans were no more 5)_____ and a fruit appeared  as a mascot.

It was an orange, a typical fruit from Spain, wearing the kit of the national team.

5-   A)used      B)show        C)part      D) convenient

"Pique" Mexico 1986

For Mexicans this chili with a big hat and a moustache was a better representation 6)_____ Juanito (1970 World Cup Mexico mascot). He had a big smile, an outfit of Mexico team, a ball and many other things that Mexicans felt  7) ------- represented.

6-   A)like       B) as          C)from     D)than

7-   A)most      B)more        C)the most  D)good

"Ciao" Italy 1990

Real characters and fruits were left to move to a  little strange design. It consisted of many cubes that 8)______ to be of wood and they were painted with the Italian colours and the head was a ball.

The name is a Italian  greeting (Hello and goodbye).

8-   A)had      B)seemed       C)may      D) might

"Striker" USA 1994

United States returned to animals as mascots, similar to their American football mascots, wearing a football outfit. For Americans, he was a symbol of fidelity and work.

"Footix" France 1998

Its name came from the beginning of "football" and the ending "-ix" from a popular comic strip (Asterix). It was chosen from a survey. This rooster had a strong , fun and sporty personality.

"Ato, Kaz and Nik, The Spheriks" Korea-Japan 2002

Another change of the mascots was this, the Asian created a kind of alien, that came from Atmozone planet and they were created 9)____  a kind of energy.

Ato (the orange one) was the official mascot, but then Nik (the purple one) and Kaz (the blue one) were joined for marketing.

9-   A) for       B)by          C)from      D)to

"Goleo VI and Pille" Germany 2006

A lion wearing a German shirt with the number 06 and a talking ball named Pille.

Goleo came from the words "goal" and the  "leo", the Latin word for lion. In German, "Pille" is a 10)______  term for football.

10-     A)colloquial   B) perfect   C)another     D) preference

"Zakumi" South Africa 2010

A leopard that is a typical animal from South Africa.

His name came from "ZA", for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means "ten" in many African languages.

It tried to represent a joined continent.

"Fuleco" Brazil 2014

It's a Brazilian armadillo, whose name is composed by the word football and the word ecology