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Thai Boxing

Boxing is popular in many countries Two fighters wear boxing ~ on their hands A bell rings The boxers hit each other until one knocks out the other Each part ofthe fight is , three minutes long It iscalleda round

Thai boxing is different

The boxing match beginswith music from

drums and flutes Then the two fighters kneel

and pray to God Next they a slow dance

10 that copies the movements of Thai boxing

During this dance, each fighter tries to show

the other that he is best

Then the fight begins In Thai boxing, the

fighters cankick With their feetand hiteachother

1; with their elbows and knees Of course, they hit with their hands too Each round is three minutes long Then the boxers have a two-minute rest Most boxers can fight only five rounds because

this kind of fightingis verydifficult

20 Thai boxing began over five hundred

(500) years ago If a soldier lost hisweapons in

abattle, he needed to fight with just his body The soldiers learned how to useallthe parts of

their body In 1560, the Burmese army cap

-25 tured Naresuen, the King of Thailand, in a

war King Naresuen was avery good boxer He

won his freedom from Burma by defeating all

the best Burmese fighters 'X'hen he returned to

Thailand, his people were very proud of him 30 Thai boxing became a popular sport

competition

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gloves match kick proud

round weapons captured knocks out

kneel elbows battle freedom

copies pray flutes drums

1 The boxers hit each other until one the other

2 The boxing begins with music from

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3 In Thai boxing, the fighters can with their feet

and hit each other with their and knees

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6 He won his from Burma by defeating all the best

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8 Then the two fighters and -

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10 When he returned toThailand, his people werevery -of him

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match copies kneel weapons

freedom drums flutes knock

captured pray elbows boxers

gloves kick battles proud

1 Itis cold today Youshould wear -,. and a hat

2 Many people of the world make music with and

3 There is a tennis on television tomorrow afternoon

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10 Most countries in the world spend too much money on _

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11 There are terrible In a war

12 Kenya was a British colony It won its in 1953

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1 composer a. a kind of music

2 caffeine b anything

3 object c the sister of a prince

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1 Most boxing begins with a _

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3 Thai boxers before the fight

a grina b knock out c pray d capture

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6 made Thai boxing apopular sport

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1 What boxers wear on their hands? What is.one part of a fight called? How does a Thai boxing match begin?

4 What the boxers before they start fighting? Why theydo a slowdance?

6 How is Thai boxing different from other boxing? What isthe length of a round in Thai boxing? Why did Thai soldiers learn to box?

9 How did King Naresuen win his freedom? 10 How did his people feel about this?

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1 Thai boxing has music before the match

2 Most Thai boxerscan fightonly a short time Thai boxing is different from other boxing

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Curling is a popular sport in Canada However, it probably started in Scotland or Holland around three hundred (300) years ago There are two teams with four people on

5 each team in curling They play on a sheet of

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Each player slides two heavystones toward

the "house" circle at the opposite end of the ice

10 sheet The stones weigh almost twenty kilos

Each stone is flat on the top and bottom and

has a handle on the top The player uses the

handle to slide the stone The player !!!!!!8! the stone off the ice, and it curls or ~ as'it

15 slides along It does not go in a straight line While one player throws the stone, his

teammates sweep in front of the stone This smoothes the ice The players believe that the stone travels faster on smooth ice, and it can

20 go farther The captain of the team

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"Sweep!" and the teammates start sweeping the ice

Usually people sweep the floor or the sidewalk with a broom They don't sweep as a

25 spon Curling is an unusual game

straipt line

captain~leader/yells=says loudly

flat (adj): phAng,det

smooth (v):tarn nh!n, tam phAng

swing (v):.danh yell (v):la het,thet I~n

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sweep teammates handle curling

yells smoothes flat sidewalk

straight swings captain curves

1 is a popular sport in Canada

2 The player the stone off the ice and it curls or

as it slides along

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curly " straight sweep

sidewalk teammates captain

handle smooth swing

1 When Gary saw his friend down the street, he to

him

2 Pam's hair is wavy, Ruth's hair is _-: -'- , and Keikos hair

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3 Paper is -' _

4 Mrs White is going to cut the grass and sweep the

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5 Children like to in the swings a.t our park

6 A suitcase has a on it This makes it easy to

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factory pilot tribe

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gloves My company plans to build a new -

-2 What is the temperature? It cold today

3 You can write with a ballpoint pen or a pencil

4 There were wet on the floor near the shower

5 The dancers their feet into the air

6 The sounds lovely

7 Each Arab has its own name

S Glen his clothes after he took them out ofthe dryer

9 Bobcan't what tocook for dinner He doesn't

know what to cook

10 you like to go out ~o dinner tonight? 11 Some people buy sugar for their coffee

12 The uses meters and grams

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_ *1 Either the Scots or Dutch invented curling _ *2 Canadians play curling all year round

3 Jhey play curling on a sheet ofice They play it with a ball

5 The playersthrow small stones

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9 Team members sweep the ice toclean it

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1 Where is curling popular?

2 Did Canadians invent this game?

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*4 Do Canadians play this game in summer?

5 How the players slide the stones?

*6 Why isthis game called curling?

'7 Why the players sweepthe ice?

8 When does the captain of the team yell, "Sweep!"?

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1 Canadians invented and play the unusual spon of curling

2 Curling players sweep and slidestones on the ice

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LESSON

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What other sports does this

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2 Are the players wearing uniforms?

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Lacrosse is another popular sport in

Canada It isone of the oldest organized spons

in {\merica The Native Americans in northern

New York State and southern Ontario, Canada,

s invented lacrosse They used it to train for war

They invented this game before Columbus

arrivedinthe New World

People play lacrosse outdoors The field is

seventy meters long At each end of the field

10 there isa ~ The goal is aD&!- There are ten

players on each team Each player has a stick

called acrosse The players hit a ball that is 21

centimeters around and weighs 140 grams They try to hit the ball into the net as many

15 times aspossible Lacrosse is a very fast game

because the players can catch and pass the ball

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At one time lacrosse was the national

summer spon in Canada It is also popular in

20 Britain and Australia

practice

goallnet

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1 At one time lacrossewas the summer sport in Canada

2 At each end of thefield there isa- _

3 is another popular sport in Canada Lacrosseis a vety fast game because the playerscan catch and

the ball ata with theirsticks

5 They usedit to for war

6 The is seventy meters long

7 The goal is a

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training goal

passed field

national speed

passed

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1 The basketballplayer the ball to his teammate The teammate made a basket

2 New firefighters get in how to fight fires

3 In volleyball,the teams hit the ball back and forth across the

4 What is the oflight? How fast does light travel? Each country has a flag.The British,French,and

American flags are red,white,and blue

6 Asoccer hasa at each end

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Match the words that mean the same

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1 over a competition

2 battle b independence

3 dozen c thing

4 wherever d before

5 match e take

6 object f flute

7 accept g fighting

8 freedom h pray

9 row finished

10 receive j anywhere

11 pre- k line

12 adult

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1 Lacrosse was the national summer sport in , -'

a Canada c Australia

b England d New YorkState

• invented lacrosse

a Columbus

b Native Americans

c Canadians

d A team

3 They invented lacrosseto forwar

a fight c train

b pass ,'" u • ~, • d sweep

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b in a stadium

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a Eight c Fifteen

b Twenty d Thirty

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a quickly c slowly

b heavily d yearly

*8 is the national sport of the United States

a Soccer c Basketball

b Boxing d Baseball

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The asterisk (*) means you have to think of the answer You cannot find it in the text

1 Who invented lacrosse?

*2 How is lacrosse like Thai boxing? What countries play lacrosse?

4 How many goals are there?

5 How many players are on each team? What does each player have? What the players try to do? Why is lacrosse a fastgame?

*9 Why don't they play lacrosse in winter in Canada? *10 What is an organized sport!

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Which is the main idea of this chapter? Choose one

1 The Native Americans invented lacrosse, a fast game that is popular in

Canada

2 Lacrosse is an outdoor game that is very fast In lacrosse, two teams use sticks to hita ball

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Sumo wrestling is a national sport in Japan Every year there are six tournaments, and millions of Japanese watch them on television A tournament is a~of matches

Sumo is almost as old as the nation of Japan itself Stories say that there was sumo wrestling over two thousand (2,000) years ago History says that there were national sumo

tournaments in the eighth century

10 Often, athletes are thin and can move very quickly It is beautiful to watch them play However, sumo wrestlers weigh from 100 to 160 kilos One famous wrestler weighed 195 kilos Sumo wrestlers not look beautiful,

15 and sumo wrestling is a very slow sport

Sumo wrestlers start training when they are boys They exercise to make their bodies strong They also eat and eat and eat

They wrestle in a round ring with a sand 20 floor.A wrestler loses the match if he leaves the

ring He is also the loser if any part of his body ~ his feet touches the floor Each wrestler tries to push the other down on the floor or out of

the ring Sometimes one'wrestler just steps aside

25 when the other wrestler mshes toward him Then that wrestlerfallsdown or fallsout of the ring

Sumo is not verypopular in other countries,

but the Japanese love it Even young people find this traditional sport exciting

one after another

people who play sports well

but

tothe side hurries

exciting ~ boring

wrestling (n):mOn dflu v~t series (n): loat,chuoi ring (n):vo dAi

tournament (n):cucc thi dau athlete (n):van d¢ng vien traditional (adj):truyen thong

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series steps touches

sumo wrestling

exercise aside except exciting tournaments ring athletes rushes

1 Sometimes one wrestler just _

when the other wrestler _

toward him

2 A tournament is a of matches

3 He is also the loserif any part of his body his feet

the floor

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6 Often are thin and can move very quickly

7 Everyyear there are six ,and millions ofJapanese

watch them on television

8 They wrestle in a round with a sand floor

9 They to make their bodies strong

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Put theright wordin the blanks

athletes

stepped senes

wrestle tournament touch rushed except aside exciting exercise ring

1 Sumo is in a round Thai boxing is in a square one

2 Only two people box or at the same time

3 Stan put his math homework He said he would

do it later

- , play basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, and many other kinds of sports

5 Everyone Amah! is in class today She is absent

6 What number is missing ftom this ? 3, 6, 12, 15

7 The students are organizing a ping pong Sign up

if you want to play

8 Marie from the Student Union to class because she was late

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10 Oscar told me some news He won ascholarship 11 Walking and running are good _

12 John on a piece ofpaper that was on thefloor

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Match the words that are the opposite

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1 deliver -' capture _

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1 Every year there are sumo tournaments

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2 says that there were sumo tournaments in the eighth century a Astory c History

b An athlete d A wrestler Most athletes are

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b out of the ring d a and b

8 The Japanese think that sumo is _

a exciting c embarrassing

'b boring d pleasant

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The asterisk(*) means you have to think of the answer You cannot find it in

the text

1 Where is sumo wrestling popular?

2 What is a tournament?

3 Is sumo an old sport?

4 How are sumo wrestlers different from other athletes?

5 How sumo wrestlers train?

6 Describe a sumo ring

7 How doesasumo wrestler lose the match?

*8 Is sumo exciting?

*9 Is itgood foraperson toweigh 160 or 195kilos?

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Which is the main idea ofthis chapter? Choose one

1 Sumo wrestling between two overweight men isa popular traditional Sport in Japan

2 The sumo wrestling ring isround and has a sandfloor

3 A sumo match isslow, and the wrestlersare veryoverweight

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The Tarahumara live in the mountains in

the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico

This is an area of high mountains and deep

tropical valleys. It sometimes snows in the

5 mountains in winter The Tarahumara live in

cav~ or in wooden orstone houses They have

smallfarms There arenot many roads Other Mexican tribes use horses or

donkm

for travel The Tarahurnara walk wherever they

10 need to go They carry heavy baskets on their

backs.

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ballahead of them while they run Before they

start racing, they plan where and how long they will run They might run just afewminutes, or they might run for several hours., Sometimes

20 they run in teams, and sometimes each person

runs as an individual.

The women's races are similar except that

the women not kick aball They throw a

wooden

hoop

25 hoop isaring orcircle.

TheTarahurnara have other games and sports

They even play akind of lacrosse However, they are funous because they can run sofast and so far

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hoop backs

ahead

circle similar

caves lacrosse valleys

wherever donkeys individual

1 Other Mexican tribes use horses or- for travel

2 When the men race, they kick a wooden ball of

them while they run

3 This is an area of high mountains and deep tropical _

4 Perhaps this is why the Tarahumara are runners

5 They carry heavy baskets on their ~_

6 The women's races are except that the women

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8 A hoop is a ring or _

9 Sometimes they run in teams, and sometimes each person runs as an

10 The Tarahumara walk

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11 The Tarahumara livein , or in wooden or stone houses

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,1 The teacher told the children to hold hands and form a large

2 The sumo wrestler and the runner are both athletes, but they are not

3 can carry a lot on their , but

sometimes they arelazy

4 As Betty and Pat drove along thehighway, they could see beautiful

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weapon drum proud elbow

handle swept yell fields

net speeding touch athletes

excited senes exercise except

,1 Helen the floor after she washed the dishes

2 Some people fish with a hook and line Others use a _

3 Mr and Mrs Black have several of corn on their

farm

4 You can open the desk drawer by pulling on the -'

5 There are from several countries in the

competition for the world cup -,

6 The children were when they went to Disneyland

7 It is important toeat good food and get lots of _

8 Tarahumara playa while they dance

9 Do all of the exercises the last one Don't that

one

10 The first unit in this book has a of lessons on

animals

11 The police stopped me because I was -r e- _

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1 Chihuahua is a state in Mexico

2 It is hot in the valleys where the Tarahumara live They buy all their food in stores

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6 The Tarahurnara men areexcellent runners, but thewomen are not

7 The winners of the races receivemoney

8 They usually race down the mountains The women kick a ball as they race

_ 10 The Tarahurnara are famous because they playlacrosse

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The asterisk (*) means you have to think ofthe answer You cannot find it in

the text

1 Where the Tarahumara live? What is the land like there? Does it ever snow?

4 Where they get their food? How they travel?

6 How most Mexican tribes travel? Describe how the men race

8 Do they always run in teams?

9 How is a women's race different from amen's race? 10 What is a hoop?

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Which isthe main idea of this chapter? Choose one

1 The Tarahumara liveincaves and wooden and stone houses inthe state of Chihuahua in Mexico

2 The Tarahumara are excellent runners and can race for several hours

without getting tired

3 The Tarahurnara women's races are similar tothe men's

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1 These are the seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia,

Europe, North America, and South America Tell what continent these places are on Use the map on page 223

a Finland

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c France h Mount Everest

d Senegal Canada

e Argentina

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c Rome h Ontario

d Hokkaido the Amazon River

e New Mexico j Alaska

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5 dry dryer

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nationality

7 excite excitement

8 think thought

9 run running

runner 10 please pleasure

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'free dry

national

excited

pleasant pleased Put the correct word form in the blanks Use a word from Line in Sentence 1,and so on Use the right verb forms and singular and plural nouns

1 What is a ?What does a ~ -,

gram ofwater weigh?

2 Azipper up and down Each -opens or closesthe hooks

3 Achimney sweep has the to breathe inside a chimney He is to this because he wears air equipment

4 The Burmese captured Naresuen He won his by

boxing Then he was He returned to Thailand

5 You'can your clothes in aclothes

When they are ,take them out

6 Where are you from? What is your ?What does

your flag look like?

7 My cousin's family went to Disney World in Florida The children

were very They got tired from all the

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8 What are you about? Is your family inyour

often?

9 Tom five kilometers every morning He isafast

is good forhim

10 This is a city.I am to be

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Write the past tense of these verbs

1 step speak 11 think

2 mix try 12 grow

3 keep meet 13 lose

4 lead pay 14 shop

5, build 10 sell 15 send

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Memorize these verbs Then use the past tense of each verb in a sentence

Simple Past Simple Past

1 drive drove slide slid

2 sweep swept catch caught

3 drink drank feel felt

4 fly flew forget forgot

5 hear heard 10 run ran

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Choose one or more of these topics and write answers

1 Which sport in

Unit

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Describe it

3 In the United States, famous athletes insome popular sports, for

example, football or.baseball, earn a lot of money Inyour country,

any famous athletes earn a lot of money? Who pays them? Do you

think it is a good idea for famous athletes to earn a lot of money? Why

or why not?