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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5 - You should've been there for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Check any words in bold that you don’t understand in a dictionary. Then discuss in pairs which sports each sentence describes.

Answer

  1. golf (drive = strong, long shot, often the first shot you take at a hole)
  2. Formula 1 / motor racing (track = the road or circuit that cars go round; overtake = go past a slower car)
  3. football – also, perhaps, hockey, ice hockey, handball (the goal in football is made up of two posts at the side and a bar or crossbar across the top, and a net that stops the ball when it goes into it)
  4. basketball – also, other American sports such as ice hockey and baseball, as well as volleyball, water polo and handball (a time-out is a short break in play which a coach of a team may call for when he or she wants to stop play and talk to players; tactics = a plan of how to play a game)
  5. football – also other team sports such as baseball, handball, ice hockey, basketball, rugby, cricket, and even tennis (team sports often have leagues, divided into divisions, and the top team in, say, division 2, is promoted to division 1 for the next season)
  6. tennis (in tennis, at the start of a point, the server gets two opportunities to serve the ball (i.e. hit it into play), a first serve, and a second serve – if the server misses both serves, it’s a double fault)
  7. football (if you tackle someone, you use your foot to take the ball off your opponent; if you shoot, you hit the ball towards the goal with your boot)
  8. rugby (when a player goes over the line and puts the ball down on the ground, he or she gets a try and five points – it is similar to a touchdown in American football)
  9. football / rugby / basketball – most team sports (a substitute is a player who replaces another player during a match)
  10. football / rugby (in football, a referee will show a red card to a player for dangerous play, and the player has to leave the pitch)
  11. tennis and other individual sports and racket sports (a coach is a person who trains and guides a player – if you sack him or her, you tell the person that you don’t want them to do the job any longer)
  12. boxing / wrestling / judo and other martial arts (in these sports, a group of judges score points and decide which fighter has won – if a match is fixed, the result is decided in advance, e.g. a boxer is paid to deliberately lose)

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