FCE Part 1 Exercise 2

Football or soccer is played around the world and it dates back as far as the Middle Ages. At that ________ it was very different from the game we play today as any number of players could take part in the matches and it usually developed into a free-for-all.

• Stage

• Time

• Term

• Season

In its modern _________ football is less than two hundred years old.

• Shape

• Fashion

• Form

• Pattern

In 1846, the first rules to govern the game were _________ up at Cambridge University.

• Drawn

• Made

• Given

• Sent

The number of players was _________ per side, which made things much more orderly than before.

• Limited

• Counted

• Checked

• Designed

Later, in 1863, the Football Association was _________ up to help promote the game in Britain.

• Born

• Pulled

• Called

• Set

In 1904 FIFA, the world governing __________ of football, was founded. It organises the World Cup tournament every four years.

• Team

• Group

• Body

• Collection

Professional football has become the most popular __________ sport in the world as well as more people play this as a team sport.

• Viewer

• Audience

• Witness

• Spectator

Other kinds of football are popular, but less _________, for example American Football and Australian Rules Football.

• Widspread

• Enormous

• Vast

• Large