商英2-02-Part 3.ppt

Useful Expressions of Football Playing 3)Places of playing: football green, field, stadium, pitch 4)Games and matches：knockout淘汰赛 , championship, tournament 锦标赛，联赛；elimination matches淘汰赛 * * * * * * * * * * Part III Extended Activities Book 2-Unit 2 Dictation Read More Grammar and Vocabulary Translation Writing Cultural Information Extended Activities Book 2-Unit 2 Return to Menu Book 2-Unit 2 In the 1970s, Pelé retired from the national team of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York. Soccer wasn’t very popular in the United States at that time. Few North Americans knew about this fast-moving sport. There was no money to pay professional players, and there was little interest in soccer in the high schools and colleges. When Pelé and other international stars began playing in various U.S. cities, people saw how interesting the game was and began to go to the matches. Today there is a professional league called the North American Soccer League. It is common for important games to have 50 to 60 thousand fans. Book 2-Unit 2 Soccer Soccer has had a slow start in America. In fact, the majority of schools still have no official soccer teams or coaches. But the blossoming popularity of the game cannot be denied. Thanks to the efforts of some world-famous soccer stars, soccer is soon to have its place in American culture. Although soccer has enjoyed decades of popularity elsewhere, it was literally ignored in America. Instead, a variation of the game called “football” was most popular in the U.S. and still is to this day. But the obvious advantages of playing soccer instead will soon win even most avid football enthusiasts. Book 2-Unit 2 For one thing, soccer is a much safer game to play than football. No one deliberately tries to knock an opponent down in soccer. In fact, the players are discouraged from even touching each other. Soccer is a game that requires skill and dexterity [dekster?ti] 敏捷 in controlling the ball. Since no on