Sporting heroes
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RESOURCE 77
Unit 6
Culture
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Section A
Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
I
n the English Premier League, there are four big teams. In twenty years, from 1996 to
2015, Manchester City
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(win) the league twice, Arsenal three times,
Chelsea four times and Manchester United eleven times.
In 2016 something amazing
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(happen). In 2009 Leicester
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(be) in the third league. They
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(move) up to the second
league and in 2014
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(go) up to the fi rst league, the Premier League.
They nearly
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(return) back down straight away. In the summer of 2015,
they
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(get) a new manager, the Italian Claudio Ranieri. Fans
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(not be) happy. Ranieri
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(be) manager of Greece when they
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(lose) to the Faroe Islands. But Leicester
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(start) well.
They soon
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(reach) the top of the league. Everybody
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(wait)
for them to start losing, but they
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(keep) winning. At the end of the
season Leicester
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(fi nish) fi rst, with eighty-one points. Arsenal were
second, with seventy-one. It
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(be) Leicester’s fi rst-ever top-league win in
their 132-year history.
Section B
Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
L
awrence Lemieux
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(be) a Canadian Olympic sailor. At the 1988
Olympic Games in Seoul he
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(begin) well and, before the fi fth race,
was in second place. He
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(know) he could win a medal – maybe
even the gold medal. The day of the race was very windy. Suddenly, a yacht from
Singapore
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(turn) over. Lawrence
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(notice) the boat turn
over and
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(see) the sailors in the dangerous sea. He
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(stop)
racing and
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(sail) to the men to save them. He
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(pull) them
out of the water and
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(wait) for the rescue boat to collect them and take
them back to the land. He then
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(continue) again, but it was too late.
He
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(fi nish) twenty-second in that race and eleventh overall. There
are no medals for coming eleventh, but Lawrence
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(get) a medal. It
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(not be) a gold, silver or bronze medal. It was a special medal from
the president of the International Olympic Committee for his brave action. Who
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(win) the gold medal in 1988? Not many people remember, but lots of
people remember Lawrence Lemieux and what he
16
(do) on that windy
day in South Korea.
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