Unit 3B Empower B2

Unit 3B Empower B2

There are a lot of runners in Kenya

Open Ended

Do you have a favorite athlete? Who is it?

Reading

• Look at the pictures on pg 35 of your book. What sports do they show? How many of the people do you recognise?

Reading

What do you think makes a succesful athlete or sporstperson? Choose the five things you think are the most important.

Are there any you think are unimportant?

Poll

Which one of these options is the most important to be a succesful athlete?

• attitude

• training and practice

• genetic make-up

• technique

• general level of fitness

Read the text Born to be the best

Open Ended

Which sports does the author talk about?

Open Ended

Who is given as an example?

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What unusual features are mentioned?

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What is the result?

Open Ended

Do you think the things mentioned in the text are important for all sports activites or only for top professional players?

Go to the following link and watch the author of the book The Sports Gene talk about what other factors can be considered in athletes perfromances

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger

Open Ended

What did you find more intestesting from the talk?

Multiple Choice

What is the Olympic motto?

• Veni, vidi, vici

• Citius, Altius, Fortius

• Citius, altius, terrus

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the motto?

• Faster, higher, better

• Stronger, better, faster

• Faster, Higher, Stronger

Open Ended

What were some of the different factors between Usain Bolt's and Jesse Owen's races?

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What are some of the things that are mentioned that had made the swimmers go faster?

Open Ended

Give an example of how athletes bodies had changed according to the sport they practice.

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What are the physical features that made the Kalenjin people usch good runners?

Multiple Choice

Other than technological advances and gene pool, what other factor has changed to make athletes perform better?

• diet

• mindset

• television

• gatorade

Open Ended

Can you think of other examples of people who are genetically fit for an activity?

Listening

The text and the TED Talk of last class were form the author of the book The Sports Gene. Listen to the first part of a programme in which people discuss the book. Answer the questions.

Open Ended

What do we know about Barbara McCallum?

Open Ended

What does she think of the ideas in the book?

Multiple Choice

What is the main message of the book?

• The best athletes are often geneticallly different from most other people.

• There is a particular gene which makes you a good athlete.

• Bein a good athlete is mainly a question of luck.

Multiple Choice

Which of these factors does Barbara say are important in Kenyan's success in running?

• They start running at an early age

• Many people have long legs

• Children learn to run in bare feet

• All of the above

Listening

Listen to the next part of the pgrogramme and answer the questions.

Open Ended

What do we know about Marta Federova?

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What does she think of the ideas in the book?

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What does Marta notice about th people sh has played against?

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What conclusion does she reach from that?

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In what way does she say sporting events like the Olympics are "unfair"?

Open Ended

Do you agree with her conclusion? Why / why not?