Writing HN2 unit 2

Multiple Choice

providing encouragement or new ideas for what you should do.

• Inspirational

• Appealing

• Appalling

• Amazing

Multiple Choice

top professional baseball teams in the USA. Minor League teams play at a lower level.

• Basketball NBA

• Major league

• World cup

• Tournament

Match

Match the following.

• Trial match

• a Major League team from Florida

• Rookie

• Inspire (v)

• Autobiography

a match to test how good the players are

Tampa Bay Devil Rays

a new player in a sports team, usually very young

to encourage someone by making them feel confident and eager to do something

a book in which someone writes about their own life, or books of this type

• a match to test how good the players are

• Tampa Bay Devil Rays

• a new player in a sports team, usually very young

• to encourage someone by making them feel confident and eager to do something

• a book in which someone writes about their own life, or books of this type

​I love stories where dreams come true.

That's why I'm writing about a man who used to teach at my high school and whose dream came true thanks to his students.

Jim Morris was born in Texas in 1964. He was good at baseball and his dream was to play for a Major League team. In the 1980s he played Minor League baseball. But then he hurt his arm, so he gave up his dream and became a PE teacher and baseball coach at Reagan County High.

Ten years later, Jim and his pupils made a deal. If the school team won the District Championship, Jim promised to play a trial match for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The kids won the competition, so Jim went to the trial. Amazingly, he played really well. Finally, on 18 September 1999, Jim played in a Major League game at last. He was thirty-five years old.

Because of his arm, Jim only played twenty-one games. After retiring from professional sport, he wrote his autobiography and Disney made a film about him called The Rookie. He is now a public speaker who talks about his own experiences to inspire and motivate people.

Jim's life shows it's never too late to believe in your dreams. What's more, it shows that sometimes students can inspire teachers.

Match

Look at the underlined words in the text and find these things:

• ten years later, finally, after, then

• and, what's more

• that's why, because of

four words/phrases that put the events from somebody's life in order

two words that add more information about somebody/something

two words that give reasons for something that happened

• four words/phrases that put the events from somebody's life in order

• two words that add more information about somebody/something

• two words that give reasons for something that happened

Match

Look at the text again. In which order does Olivia write about these things?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

why she wrote about him

his early life

the key thing Jim did

his later life

summing up

• why she wrote about him

• his early life

• the key thing Jim did

• his later life

• summing up