Soccer Shootout

​Soccer Shootout

By Maria Torres

If you are apprehensive, you are worried something bad might happen.

Example:
I told my mom that I was apprehensive about my first day of school.

Question:
What made you feel apprehensive?

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​apprehensive

Open Ended

Use the word apprehensive in your own sentence.

I told ___ that I was apprehensive about __.

Multiple Choice

Which word means you are worried something bad might happen?

• apprehensive

• technical

• deflected

• competition

The technical parts of a sport are the basic skills and understandings that are needed to play.

Example:
In soccer practice, our coach helps us develop our technical skills.

Question:
What are the technical parts of your favorite sport?

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​technical

Open Ended

Use the word technical in your own sentence.

In ___ practice, our ___ helps us develop our technical skills.

Multiple Choice

Which word means parts of a sport are the basic skills and understandings that are needed to play?

• apprehensive

• technical

• deflected

• competition

If you deflected something that was moving, you made it go in a different direction.

Example:
The goalie deflected the ball away from the net.

Question:
When have you deflected something?

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​deflected

Open Ended

Use the word deflected in your own sentence.

The ___ deflected ___ away from the __.

Multiple Choice

Which word means something that was moving, you made it go in a different direction?

• apprehensive

• technical

• deflected

• competition

Match

Match the sentence with the correct word.

• At baseball practice we worked on ___ skills, like hitting.

• Ximena reached out and ___ the paper airplane toward Angeles.

• Elias is ___ about the trip because he doesn't like planes.

technical

deflected

apprehensive

• technical

• deflected

• apprehensive

If you are in a competition, you are in a contest against another person or team.

Example:
Tug of war is a fun competition between the third-grade classrooms.

Question:
What types of competitions have you been involved in?

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​competition

Open Ended

Use the word competition in your own sentence.

__is a fun competition between the __.

Multiple Choice

Which word means you are in a contest against another person or team?

• intercepted

• technical

• competition

• sprawling

If you intercepted something, you stopped it from getting to where it was going.

Example:
He intercepted a pass to take the football away from the other team.

Question:
What kinds of things might be intercepted?

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​intercepted

Open Ended

Use the word intercepted in your own sentence.

We won the game because ___ intercepted the ball.

Multiple Choice

Which word means you stopped it from getting to where it was going?

• intercepted

• technical

• competition

• sprawling

If you move in a sprawling way, you spread out your arms and legs.

Example:
Adeline moves in a sprawling way on the leaves as she looks up at the sky.

Question:
When would you move in a sprawling way?

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​sprawling

Open Ended

Use the word sprawling in your own sentence.

I move in a sprawling way on ___.

Multiple Choice

Which word means you spread out your arms and legs?

• intercepted

• technical

• competition

• sprawling

Match

Match the sentence with the correct word.

• Jorge ___ the ball so the other team didn't score.

• We watched an exciting ___ between two tennis champions.

• Raul's ___ body took up all of the beach towel.

intercepted

competition

sprawling

• intercepted

• competition

• sprawling