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Comprehension Test
The Beautiful Game
Steve Flinders
1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
a There is a World Cup competition every three years.
b When Stanley Matthews was a professional footballer in the 1950s, he got about $40 a week.
c More than 100 million people in China watch English soccer matches on TV.
d Men and women play football at theOlympic Games.
e Argentina have won the World Cup more times than any other country
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2 Which of these people . . .? Zinedine Zidane, Lily Parr, King Edward the Third of England, Pelé, Robert Hoyzer
a . . . was the youngest player to play in a World Cup? . . . . . . . . .
b . . . said that football was bad and dangerous? . . . . . . . . .
c . . . often got angry duringgames? . . . . . . . . .
d . . . secretly got money from clubs before matches? . . . . . . . . .
e . . . played for a factory’s football team at the age of fourteen? . . . . . . . . .
20 marks

3 Match a number from A with a letter from B to make complete sentences.
A
1 If a player is offside, the assistant referee . . .
2 If a player fouls another player badly, the referee can . . .3 If the referee shows a player a red card, the player must . . .
4 A team usually gets a goal if . . .
5 The goalkeeper is the only player who can . . .
B
a . . . there is a penalty.
b . . . show him a yellow card.
c . . . touch the ball with his hands.
d . . . holds up his flag.
e . . . leave the pitch immediately.
20 marks

4 Match a word from A with a definitionfrom B.
A
1 shoot
2 fan
3 defend
4 final
5 foreign
B
a To try to stop the other team from scoring goals
b From another country
c The last and most important game in a competition
d To try to kick the ball into the goal
e Someone who loves watching soccer
20 marks

5 Fill in the gaps using: different, rules, today, stop, could, old, kick, soccer, fighting,hundreds
Football is very . . . . . . . . . By the 1300s, there was a lot of football in England, but it was not the game we know . . . . . . . . . There were . . . . . . . . . of men in each team, and there was a lot of . . . . . . . . . One English king said that football must . . . . . . . . . but people did not listen. By the 1800s a lot of schools were playing football, but the rules were .. . . . . . . . from one school to another. For example, in some schools players . . . . . . . . . pass the ball with their hands, but in others they could only . . . . . . . . . it. In 1863 a group of men met in London and wrote some. . . . . . . . . for the game. They called themselves the Football Association. When people played football using these new rules, they called it ‘. . . . . . . ..’ from the word ‘Association’.
30 marks

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Multiple-choice Test
The Beautiful Game
Steve Flinders

Places
Choose the best answer.
1 Two thousand years ago, people in _____ played a ball game called Cuju.
a [ ] Uruguay b [ ] France c [ ] England d [ ] China
2 The first World Cup was in _____ in 1930.
a [ ] England b [ ] Brazil c [ ] Uruguay d [ ] Japan3 A lot of people in _____ like Gaelic football.
a [ ] Ireland b [ ] the USA c [ ] Brazil d [ ] England
4 _____ has won the World Cup more times than any other country.
a [ ] Argentina b [ ] England c [ ] Brazil d [ ] France
5 When Hidetoshi Nakata left Japan, he played for some top clubs in _____.
a [ ] China b [ ] Italy c [ ] England d [ ] Argentina
6 A Russianbillionaire bought _____ Football Club in 2003.
a [ ] Arsenal b [ ] Liverpool c [ ] Manchester United d [ ] Chelsea
7 Rugby is a sport that started in _____.
a [ ] Argentina b [ ] France c [ ] England d [ ] Scotland
8 The Tri-Nations championship is a rugby competition for _____, Australia and New Zealand.
a [ ] England b [ ] South Africa c [ ] Japan d [ ] China...