基础英语2-unit6-football-课后答案.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * Part III Extended Activities Book 2-Unit 6 Dictation Read More Grammar and Vocabulary Translation Writing Cultural Information Extended Activities Book 2-Unit 6 Return to Menu Book 2-Unit 6 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 6 Read “The World Cup” on page 85, and try to answer: What, according the writer, has made the football the most popular sport in the world? In the past half a century the World Cup witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of participating teams and the audience members who watched or listened to the World Cup finals. Football is called soccer in Britain. The World Cup final is always played in the middle of the night. Britain had objection to the idea of playing football at the World Cup at the beginning. The rules of having elimination matches did not exist until 1934. Read the story and do the True/False/Not Mentioned (NM) exercise on page 86. F F NM NM Book 2-Unit 6 World War II prevented the World Cup from taking place. The cup was seized by the Germans as a trophy during the Second World War. People had little interest in competing for the Cup in 1950. Pelé became the greatest soccer player of all time because his team won the cup in 1958. T F T F Book 2-Unit 6 Book 2-Unit 6 Try to finish the assigned Reading Exercises about Chinese football. China PR Ready for Another Lo