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Unit 3: Active and Healthy_ Lesson IA Vocabulary and Grammar - Active and Healthy

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Lesson IA Vocabulary and Grammar - Active and Healthy

Extreme sports and English grammar exercises for students

💬 Discussion Exercises

1) In pairs, answer the questions.

a) How many extreme sports can you list in one minute?

Suggested Answer: Skateboarding, BMX, parkour, surfing, skydiving.

b) Which have you tried / would like to try?

Suggested Answer: I'd like to try parkour because it improves balance and strength.

2) Look at the photo of Aaron 'Wheelz' Fotheringham. Write three questions you would like to ask Aaron about his life as a professional athlete.

Suggested Questions:

  1. What motivated you to keep trying after you fell?
  2. Which record are you most proud of?
  3. How do you train for safety?

The text answers some of these.

📝 Grammar Exercises

3) Identify the tenses of the verbs in bold: Past Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect. Then match sentences 1–5 with a–e in the Grammar box.

1. b — Past Continuous, Past Simple

2. a — Past Simple

3. e — Past Perfect, Past Simple

4. d — Past Continuous

5. c — Past Continuous

4) In pairs, answer the questions using full sentences.

a) What had Aaron learnt to do by age four?

He had learnt to get around on crutches.

b) Why was Aaron's first backflip special?

Because nobody had ever done a backflip in a wheelchair before.

c) What did Aaron do in 2012?

He jumped a fifteen‑metre gap in Brazil.

5) Choose the correct tense.

1. When Aaron arrived at the skate park, his friends had already left.

2. Aaron broke his wheelchair while he was practising a new trick.

3. The crowds in Brazil were amazed when they saw how far Aaron jumped.

6) Complete the text with the most suitable tense of the verbs.

Answer: 1 trained | 2 injured | 3 had recovered | 4 hadn't hurt | 5 arrived | 6 was doing | 7 fell | 8 had | 9 had broken

📖 Vocabulary and Speaking

7) Complete the questions with the correct form of the highlighted words.
  1. injury → Have you ever suffered an injury while doing a sport at school? What happened?
  2. amateur/professional → Do you know anyone who started out as an amateur athlete and later turned professional?
  3. competition → Has a team from your school ever won a competition?
  4. qualified → Has a team from your country ever qualified for the finals of a major competition?
  5. record → Can you name someone from your country who has set a world record? What was it?
8) Speaking — In pairs, ask and answer the questions in Exercise 7.

Suggested Answer: Yes. For example, our school basketball team won the city competition last year.

🌐 Learning Resources

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