T2 Reading 2- Competitive Sports: Values and Issues

• English 9 Elite
• Secondary Education
• Age 13

Reading 2- Competitive Sports: Values and Issues 

Reading 2 - Competitive Sports: Values and Issues 

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

-Read and understand the overall meaning of extended texts of familiar and unfamiliar topics

-Understand the overall message or theme of said topics 

Competitive Sports Nowadays

In-Class Discussion

Please read and answer the following questions:

Vocabulary

Read and listen to the words and phrases below:

Write down the words and phrases that are new to you.

Reading Time

Competitive Sports Values and Issues

Letter A:  The World Should _______________ Sports Competition

Letter B:  The World Should _______________ Sports Competition

Letter A: The World Should _______________ Sports Competition

Letter B: The World Should _______________ Sports Competition

Thinking Critically 

Read each statement and decide if it represents a positive or negative point of view. Select "P" for positive and "N" for negative. 

1. The world of competitive sports has been corrupted worldwide.

1. P
2. N

2. Corporate sponsorship rules the modern Olympics.

1. P
2. N

3. International Sports don't seem to promote moral development, individual achievement, cooperative sportsmanship, and multicultural understanding.

1. P
2. N

4. Most top athletes take performance-enhancing substances.

1. P
2. N

5. Drug testing in competitive sports prevents the use of performance-enhancing substances by athletes.

1. P
2. N

6. Fair play and international understanding serve the will for world peace.

1. P
2. N

Getting Meaning from Context

Read the two letters and figure out the meaning of the words and phrases from the context. Select the correct definition for each item.

Corrupted

1. Not allowed
2. Giving money to support something or someone
3. Improving strength/performance
4. Dishonest

Banned

1. Not allowed
2. Giving money to support something or someone
3. Improving strength/performance
4. Dishonest

Performance- enhancing

1. Not allowed
2. Giving money to support something or someone
3. Improving strength/performance
4. Dishonest

Opposition

1. Not allowed
2. Giving money to support something or someone
3. Improving strength/performance
4. Disagreement

Sponsorship

1. Not allowed
2. Giving money to support something or someone
3. Improving strength/performance
4. Dishonest

Bribery

1. Persuasion through gift or money
2. Giving money to support something or someone
3. Improving strength/performance
4. Disagreement

Promote

1. Support, help, and publicize
2. Persuasion through gift or money
3. Improving strength/performance
4. Dishonest

Disqualified

1. Protect, keep
2. Strong love of one's country
3. Keep out of competition
4. Sense of deep pleasure coming from achievement

Fair Play

1. Protect, keep
2. Strong love of one's country
3. Respect for the rules and other players, good sportsmanship
4. Sense of deep pleasure coming from achievement

Preserve

1. Protect, keep
2. Strong love of one's country
3. Respect for the rules and other players, good sportsmanship
4. Sense of deep pleasure coming from achievement

Patriotism

1. Protect, keep
2. Strong love of one's country
3. Respect for the rules and other players, good sportsmanship
4. Sense of deep pleasure coming from achievement

Pride

1. Protect, keep
2. Strong love of one's country
3. Respect for the rules and other players, good sportsmanship
4. Sense of deep pleasure coming from achievement

Reading 2- Competitive Sports: Values and Issues 

Reading 2 - Competitive Sports: Values and Issues - Part 2 

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

-Skill Focus: Distinguishing Opinion from Fact

- Critical Thinking Activity

-Language Focus: Prefixes

Distinguishing Opinion from Fact

Distinguishing Opinion from Fact

1. In a recent poll, 95 percent of polled athletes said that if they thought the wouldn't get caught, they would take performance-enhancing drugs to increase their chances of winning in competition.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

2. Advertisers, fans, and spectators don't oppose doping (the use of performance-enhancing drugs) because they like to see athletes set exciting new records.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

3. The purpose of drug testing and the formation of world and national anti-doping agencies is to prevent and/or to punish the use of banned substances in international competitions.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

4. More and more, the IOC and other competitive sports organizations are bringing in huge sums of money from commercial sources such as corporate sponsorships and the sale of broadcast rights to TV networks.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

5. Unfair judges award metals because of national pride rather than true athletic performance.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

6. Scientists are developing tests to discover new forms of doping.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

7. International sports competition is supposed to support and promote moral development, athletic achievement, team cooperation, and cultural understanding at local, national, and international levels.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

8. The Olympics and other international sports competitions can and should be made more positive forces in the troubled modern world. It doesn't matter if the succeeded of failed in the past.

1. Objective fact
2. Subjective Opinion

Thinking and Discussing 

Get in groups of  4 students

Be ready to present your arguments in class.

Check the following example:

Predictions (Noun)

1. The farthest possible; very great or intense
2. A disagreement
3. Acts of telling the future

Conflict (Noun)

1. The farthest possible; very great or intense
2. A disagreement
3. Acts of telling the future

Compete (Verb)

1. To go against in order to win
2. To give to something other people are also giving to
3. Acts of telling the future

Coordination (Noun)

1. Involving two or more countries
2. Organized activity of muscle groups in athletics
3. The farthest possible; very great or intense

Professional (Noun)

1. Prizes given for winning or other behaviors
2. Dishonest, willing to lie, cheat, or steal.
3. A person who has special education or training

International (Adj.)

1. Acts of telling the future
2. Involving two or more countries
3. To go against in order to win

Corrupt (Adj.)

1. Dishonest, willing to lie, cheat, or steal.
2. The farthest possible; very great or intense
3. Prizes given for winning or other behaviors

Extreme (Adj.)

1. To give to something other people are also giving to
2. Prizes given for winning or other behaviors
3. The farthest possible; very great or intense

Rewards (Noun)

1. A person who has special education or training
2. Prizes given for winning or other behaviors
3. The farthest possible; very great or intense

Exit Ticket

Disqualify

1. Support
2. Qualify
3. Schedule

Expand

1. Contract, make smaller
2. Create a problem
3. Schedule

Banned

1. Honest
2. Acceptable
3. Allowed

Opposition

1. Qualify
2. Create a problem
3. Support

Fans

1. Athletes
2. Buy, purchase, participate in
3. Allowed

Intolerable

1. Buy, purchase, participate in
2. Acceptable
3. Cooperative

Profitable

1. Support
2. Losing money
3. Contract, make smaller

Solve, Answer

1. Allowed
2. Acceptable
3. Create a problem

Boycott

1. Losing money
2. Contract, make smaller
3. Buy, purchase, participate in

Cancel

1. Cooperative
2. Schedule
3. Honest

Cancel

1. Cooperative
2. Allowed
3. Acceptable

Thank you!

Thank you!