Teaher s notes LEVEL 1 David Bekham Teaher Support Programme Bernard Smith Summary Pages 1 7 David Bekham is a very famous English footballer. David Bekham was born in London in 1975 into a footballloving family. The young David was not very good at shoolwork and spent all his spare time playing football. He was enouraged by his father, who was a Manhester United fan, and joined Manhester United when he was 16. He played his first game for them a year later, and went on to help them win many trophies, inluding the European Champions Cup. He played his first game for England when he was 21. He was sent off against Argentina in a World Cup math, whih England lost. When he was 25, he beame the aptain of England s national football team. Pages 8 14 Getting sent off the pith in 1998 made Bekham unpopular, but he sored England s only goal when they beat Argentina in the 2002 World Cup math. One year later Manhester United sold him to Real Madrid, the best team in the world, for twenty-five million pounds. He is married to Vitoria ( Posh Spie of the famous pop group, the Spie Girls) and they have beome one of the most famous and glamorous ouples in the world. David is always in the newspapers and magazines beause of his football, his family, his house, his ars and his hair. Bekham loves hildren, and he has opened his own football shools in Greenwih and Los Angeles. He is just an ordinary family man at heart, and a wonderful model for young people all over the world. Bakground and themes Fame and stardom: David Bekham is not just a football star. He has beome an international ion, of great interest to the media and to people who don t even like football. He is, of ourse, a brilliant footballer. He is also goodlooking, rih and married to a pop star. Some people think that he is boring. He never gets into trouble, never auses sandal and obviously adores his wife and hildren. So why are people so interested in him? Probably beause his story offers hope to ordinary young people everywhere. Youth poliy in football: Bekham was signed on by Manhester United for their youth training programme when he was young. Now he himself has opened his own football aademy. Football and money: Bekham agreed to a $250 million five-year deal with the LA Galaxy in Los Angeles. He is one of the highest-earning athletes of all time. Disussion ativities Pages 1 7 Before reading 1 Disuss: Talk about David Bekham. Show students the piture on the book over and ask Who is he? Ask students if they know anything about David Bekham. Have them look at the pitures on pages 2, 3, 5 and 7 to help them talk about him. After reading 2 Role play: Students work in groups of three and at out this onversation. Student A: You are 11-year-old David. You want to enter a football ompetition for 15 year olds. Student B: You are his father. You want David to go, but you think he is too young and small. Student C: You are his teaher. You think he should spend less time on football and more on shoolwork. Pages 8 14 Before reading 3 Disuss: Talk about the headings. On the board, write down the headings Posh and Beks, The World Cup 2002: Bekkamu! Bekkamu!, Goodbye to the Reds and A Family Man. Ask students what they think they are going to read about. If possible, bring in some related magazine pitures to help them. After reading 4 Disuss: Have students work in small groups to disuss the following questions: Why did David go to Los Angeles, do you think? Will he be happy there? 5 Disuss: Do footballers today earn too muh money? Voabulary ativities For the Word List and voabulary ativities, go to www.penguinreaders.om. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 David Bekham - Teaher s notes of 1
Ativity worksheet LEVEL 1 David Bekham Teaher Support Programme Photoopiable While reading 1 Are these sentenes right (3) or wrong (7)? Look at the pitures in the book and find out. a David kiks the ball with his right foot. b In the piture on page 3, David is on the left. David was fat when he was a boy. d He was aptain of England in 2000. e A lot of Frenh people are his fans. f He sored two goals against Argentina. g His wife s name is Brooklyn. Pages 1 7 2 What omes first? What omes next? Put these sentenes in the right order. a David beame the aptain of England. b England won the game against Greee. David saw an advertisement on television for a football ompetition. d Manhester United won three big ompetitions. e England played Argentina in Frane. f David played his first game for Manhester United against Brighton. 3 Make the sentenes right. a David is a famous Amerian footballer. b David sored England s first goal against Greee. David kiked a Frenh player. d David was sent off for the seond time in 1998. e David went to a Manhester United football shool after he left shool. f David played his first game for Manhester United when he was 16. g David played his first game for England in 1992. h David s first game as England s aptain was against Frane. Pages 8 14 4 Complete eah sentene with a word from the box. beat married met moved opened said sored telephoned won a In 1999 David Vitoria. b David Vitoria after a football game. David Vitoria six times a day. d Brazil the World Cup 2002. e David his football shool in 2005. f David some good goals in the World Cup 2006. g It s time for a new aptain, David in 2006. h Real Madrid Real Mallora and they won La Liga. i In 2007 David to the USA. 5 Write a number from the box in the spaes. You will not use one of the numbers. 4 5 7 1 23 6 12 9 5 7 3 a There were Spie Girls. b After months Posh and Beks were in love. England played Argentina on June 2002. d England beat Argentina 0. e David has hildren. f David wore a shirt with the number for Real Madrid. g David wears a shirt with the number for England. h David played for Manhester United for years. i David played for Real Madrid for years. j David is going to play for LA Galaxy for years. After reading 6 Whih of these words desribe David Bekham? Tik (3). a bad b a football star good-looking d lever e famous f a film star g a family man h tall Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 David Bekham - Ativity worksheet of 1
Progress test LEVEL 1 David Bekham Teaher Support Programme Photoopiable 1 Math a e and 1 5. a Manhester United:.. b Vitoria:.. Bekkamu:.. d Real Madrid:.. e LA Galaxy:.. 1) Bekham in Japanese 2) a football lub in the USA 3) a football lub in England 4) a football lub in Spain 5) Bekham s wife 2 Choose the right answer. a Where was David Bekham born?.. 1) He was born in London. 2) He was born in Manhester. 3) He was born in Madrid. b What does Bekham want to do in the USA?.. 1) He wants to be a Hollywood star. 2) He wants to make football famous there. 3) He wants to play with Zidane, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Raul and Figo. How does Bekham make a lot of money?.. 1) He makes money from football. 2) He makes money from advertisement. 3) Both 1 and 2. d What is Bekham s first son s name?.. 1) Cruz. 2) Romeo. 3) Brooklyn. e Where did Bekham open his football shools?.. 1) In Manhester and Madrid. 2) In London and Los Angeles. 3) In Manhester and Los Angeles. 3 Are these sentene right (3) or wrong (7)? Underline the mistakes and make them right. a David s wife is a film star. b In 1997, David was more famous than Vitoria. David wasn t famous in Japan before the World Cup in 2002. d David sored the winning goal against Argentina during the World Cup in 2002. e Brazil beat England in the World Cup final in 2002. f David makes more money than Vitoria. g David sored goals in two World Cup ompetitions. 4 Put the words from 1 8 in the right plaes. 1975 David was born in a... 1986 age: 11 David won the ompetition at the b... age: 13 David went to a football shool for boys at Manhester United. He went there... 1991 David joined d... 1992 age: 17 David played e.. for Manhester United. 1996 age: 21 David played for f.. for the first time. 1998 age: 23 David got a red ard in the game against g.. during the World Cup. England lost. 1999 age: 24 David married h... Manhester United won three big ompetitions. 1 Argentina 2 England 3 Bobby Charlton Football Shool 4 his first game 5 Vitoria 6 London 7 Manhester United 8 every summer holiday 5 Math a g with 1 7. a In 2000.. b In 2001.. In 2005.. d In 2006.. e In 2007.. 1) David sored some good goals during the World Cup finals in Germany. After that, he stopped being the aptain of England. 2) David beame the aptain of the England team. 3) Real Madrid won La Liga. David joined LA Galaxy. 4) David sored the seond goal in the game against Greee. England was able to go to the World Cup finals. 5) David opened his football shool. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 David Bekham - Progress test of 1
Answer keys LEVEL 1 David Bekham Teaher Support Programme Book key 1 2 Open answers 3 Brazil beat Turkey. The sore was Brazil 1, Turkey nil. Turkey beat South Korea. The sore was Turkey 3, South Korea 2. Brazil beat Germany. The sore was Brazil 2, Germany nil. 4 a Argentina b Manhester United Italy d Bayern Munih 5 a red b thin angry 6 Open answers (a She is a singer and she writes musi. b In 2002 they were in Japan and Korea. In 2006 they were in Germany. Brazil won in 2002. Italy won in 2006. He is in Los Angeles. He plays for LA Galaxy.) 7 a 3 b 7 7 d 3 e 7 f 7 g 7 8 a He played and sored goals in three World Cup ompetitions. b He wants to teah football to hildren in many ountries. He is trying to make football famous in the United States. 9 10 Open answers Disussion ativities key 1 Possible answers: He s a football player. He s English. He is the aptain of the England team. His wife is one of the Spie Girls. There s a film alled Bend It Like Bekham. 2 Open answers 3 Possible answers: Perhaps we are going to read about his marriage and family life. I think we re going to read about the World Cup games in Japan and Korea. I think the Reds means Manhester United. He left Manhester United. 4 Possible answers: Perhaps the money was too good to say no. I think he wants to be friends with Hollywood stars. I think he ll be happy. The weather is nie in Los Angeles. I think he ll be unhappy there. Amerian people love Amerian football, baseball and basketball. 5 Open answers Ativity worksheet key 1 a 3 b 7 7 d 3 e 7 f 7 g 7 2 a 3 b 6 2 d 5 e 4 f 1 3 a Amerian: English b first: seond a Frenh: an Argentinean d seond: first e after: before f 16: 17 g 1992: 1996 h Frane: Italy 4 a married b met telephoned d won e opened f sored g said h beat i moved 5 9 is not used a 5 b 6 7 d 1 Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 David Bekham - Answer keys of 2
Answer keys LEVEL 1 David Bekham Teaher Support Programme e 3 f 23 g 7 h 12 i 4 j 5 5 b,, e, g and h 6 Open answers Progress test key 1 a 3 b 5 1 d 4 e 2 2 a 1 b 2 3 d 3 e 2 3 a 7 film star: singer b 7 David: Vitoria, Vitoria: David 7 wasn t: was d 3 e 7 England: Germany f 3 g 7 two: three 4 a 6 London b 3 Bobby Charlton Football Shool 8 every summer holiday d 7 Manhester United e 4 his first game f 2 England g 1 Argentina h 5 Vitoria 5 a 2 b 4 5 d 1 e 3 Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 David Bekham - Answer keys 2 of 2
Teaher s notes LEVEL 1 Pelé Teaher Support Programme Rod Smith Summary This book is a biography of the legendary Brazilian soer player Pelé. It traes his life from his early days as a poor boy who played barefoot beause his family ould not afford soer shoes, to his later life as an ambassador for the Brazilian government, and one of the most suessful soer players the world has ever seen. Pages 1 7: Pelé was born in 1940 into a poor family. His father was a soer player. He wanted Pelé to be a soer player too, but his mother wanted him to be a dotor. Although he was good at soer, Pelé s dream was to work at an airport. However, when he was eight years old, he witnessed an air rash and gave up his dream of working with airplanes. Pelé learnt to play soer from his father and soon beame the best player in town. He formed a soer team with his friends and they soon won the hampionships. At the suggestion of a loal manager, Pelé joined the famous Brazilian team, Santos. He sored a lot of goals for the team and was soon famous. Pages 7 15: In 1957, Pelé was aepted onto the Brazilian national team. He played in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and sored six goals in all, whih helped Brazil win the hampionship. He later went on to play in the 1966 and 1970 World Cup hampionships too. While wathing a girl s soer math in 1958, Pelé met a young girl, Rosemeri Cholby, who later beame his wife. Pelé s soer shedule often took him away from home, whih was diffiult for his family life. In 1974, Pelé retired from Santos and moved to New York in order to bring soer to the United States. He played for three more years before retiring from the game. After this, Pelé worked as an ambassador for the Brazilian government and also for the international organization UNICEF, whih helps hildren in trouble around the world. Bakground and themes Ambition: Pelé is born into a poor family, who ould not even afford to buy him soer shoes, but it did not stop him from playing. He works hard to be a good soer player, and by working hard, he ahieves his goals and beomes a world famous and suessful player. Values: When Pelé retired from soer, he was very famous and very rih. Instead of simply enjoying his retirement, he ontinued to work to help those less fortunate than himself. He used his talents to improve his life and ontinued to use his talents to help others improve theirs. Disussion ativities Before reading 1 Disuss: Ask students to look at the front over of the book. Who is the man? Where is he? Do students know anything about Pelé? If so, ask them to write a list of things that they know about him. If not, ask students to look at the piture and talk about what they think about him. What nationality is he? What kind of harater is he? What is he doing in this piture? 2 Group work: Put students into groups. Give them five minutes to hoose a famous sport star (for less able students ask them to hoose a sport). Eah group should prepare a few sentenes about their sport star/sport but without using the star s/sport s name. Eah group takes it in turns to read out their sentenes to the lass. The lass guesses the sport star/sport. Alternatively, ask students to work individually and to write a few sentenes about their favourite sport star/sport. After reading 3 Role play: Put students into pairs. Ask one student to take the role of Pelé s father and the other to take the role of his mother. Tell students to imagine that they are Pelé s parents talking about their son after Brazil s suess in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Ask them to prepare a onversation between his mother and father. They should use their imagination and think about how they both feel about the suess of their son. Walk round the lass and help the students with their dialogues. Give students time to pratise before asking onfident pairs to role play their dialogues in front of the lass. Voabulary ativities For the Word List and voabulary ativities, go to www.penguinreaders.om. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Pelé - Teaher s notes of 1
Ativity worksheet LEVEL 1 Pelé Teaher Support Programme Photoopiable While reading Pages 1 3 1 Are these sentenes true (T) or false (F)? a Pelé s real name is Pelé Edson Arantes do Nasimento. b His nikname at home was Dio. Pelé was born in Brazil. d He played a total of 1,363 mathes and sored a goal in only half of them. e Besides soer, Pelé is skilled at mediine and flying. f When Pelé was 4 years old his family moved to Bauru, where his father had a good job. g Pelé s first game of soer was played with a ball made of paper. h His dream was always to be a soer player. i Pelé was not a good student at shool. j Pelé s family loved eah other, even though they had a lot of problems. 2 Finish these sentenes. Math A and B. A a When Pelé got his first job he was b At Bauru station, Pelé worked as a When Pelé witnessed a plane rash B 1) 8 years old. 2) 18 years old. 3) offie leaner. 4) shoe leaner. 5) he deided to work at an airport. 6) he lost his dream of working with planes. 3 Pelé s mother wanted her son to beome a dotor. Why do you think she wanted this? Write a few sentenes. Pages 4 7 4 Put the names in the orret plaes. Santos September 7 Valdemar de Brito Baquinho Ameriquinho Dondinho a Pelé s soer teaher was his father,. b Pelé and his friends started a soer lub alled. The name of their team hanged to when they were given new shoes. d In Bauru, the main soer lub ran a team for young players alled. e was the manager of this team. f was a very famous soer lub in Brazil. 5 Look at the piture on page 6. Write a new aption for the piture. Pages 7 11 6 Answer these questions. a When did Pelé join Brazil s national team? b How old was he at that time? How many goals did Pelé sore in his first World Cup? d How many players did Brazil normally take to the World Cup? e How many World Cup mathes did Pelé attend? Pages 11 12 7 Answer these questions. a Who was Zito? b What was the name of the diffiult girl? The diffiult girl later beame Pelé s wife. How old was she when they met? d Where was she working at the time that they met? Pages 12 15 8 Close your books. Choose the orret answers. a Pelé played for Santos for.. 1) 8 years. 2) 18 years. 3) 20 years. b Between 1956 and 1974, Santos won.. 1) The World Cup three times, the South Amerian Club Championship three times and the Brazilian Championship five times. 2) The World Cup five times, the South Amerian Club Championship three times and the Brazilian Championship three times. 3) The World Cup five times, the South Amerian Club Championship five times and the Brazilian Championship five times. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Pelé - Ativity worksheet of 1
Progress test LEVEL 1 Pelé Teaher Support Programme Photoopiable 1 Math the people (a e) with the quotations (1 5). a Rosemeri Cholby to Pelé... b Pelé s father to his mother... Zito to Pelé... d Pelé s mother to Pelé... e Valdemar de Brito to Pelé s father... 1) Dio has soer player s legs. 2) He s a very good soer player. He an try for a job with Santos. 3) She works in a musi store. 4) There s no money in the game. 5) But I don t like soer. 2 Look at the sentenes below. There are 10 mistakes. Corret them. Pelé is the number one star in the history of Amerian football. He was born in Brazil in 1940. His nikname at home was Edson. His father was a dotor named Dondinho. His mother wanted him to be a soer player. As a young man Pelé wanted to be a dotor. Pelé s first job was as a shoe leaner at Bauru airport. He joined Santos when he was 10 years old. The first World Cup he played in was in Spain. He sored six goals and Brazil lost. His wife Rosemeri was a big soer fan. 3 Answer these questions. a Whih languages does Pelé speak?.. 1) Portuguese, Frenh, Italian, Spanish, English 2) Portuguese, Frenh, German, Spanish English 3) Portuguese, Frenh, Swedish, Italian, English b How many ountries did Pelé visit during his soer areer?.. 1) 68 2) 77 3) 88 What was the name of Pelé s mother?.. 1) Dio 2) Celeste 3) Celine d The soer World Cup Championships take plae every.. years. 1) four 2) five 3) six e When Pelé was 11 he played in a team alled September 7. Some people alled them.. 1) The Amerians 2) The team with no shoes 3) The beautiful game 4 Finish the sentenes and omplete the rossword puzzle. d e a a A word to desribe a sportsman or woman who wins the most medals. b In 1958, Brazil Sweden to win the World Cup. In 1965 Pelé Rosemeri Cholby. d Pelé played his math in 1977. e Pelé ould not play in all of the mathes of the 1966 World Cup beause of. 5 Put these sentenes in the right order. Number them 1 10. a Pelé worked as shoe leaner. b He and another player alled Zito beame good friends. Pelé met a young girl alled Rosemeri. d Pelé was aepted onto the Santos team. e Pelé moved to New York. f He played his final game for Santos. g He started to work for the Brazilian government. h In 1948, he started shool. i Pelé started his own soer team with his friends. j In 1958 he played in his first World Cup. 6 Math A and B. A B a win 1) A person who supports and wathes a partiular team. b sore 2) A group of people who play or work together. stadium 3) A person who works as the boss of a team. d team 4) To ome first in a ompetition. e fan 5) A plae where sports events are held. f manager 6) To win a point in a ompetition. b Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Pelé - Progress test of 1
Answer keys LEVEL 1 Pelé Teaher Support Programme Book key 1 Open answers (Pelé is a famous soer player. He is from Três Corações, Brazil. His first job after shool was in a shoe fatory. The name of his first soer team was September 7.) 2 a manager, fan, stadium, sore b final, injury, ball, team fatory 3 a Celeste (Dio s / Pelé s mother) b Dio (Pelé) Dondinho (Pelé s father) d Valdemar e the manager of Santos f Pelé 4 5 Open answers 6 a 6/six b 3/three 7/seven d 5/five e 1995 7 10 Open answers Disussion ativities key 1 3 Open answers Ativity worksheet key 1 a F b T T d F e F f F g T h F i T j T 2 a 1 b 4 6 3 Open answers 4 a Dondinho b September 7 Ameriquinho d Baquinho e Valdemar de Brito f Santos 5 Open answers 6 a 1957 b 17 6 d 22 e 4 7 Possible answers: a A friend who also played for Santos b Rosemeri Cholby 14 d She was working in a musi store. 8 a 2 b 1 Progress test key 1 a 5 b 1 3 d 4 e 2 2 Pelé is the number one star in the history of Amerian football soer. He was born in Brazil in 1940. His nikname at home was Edson Dio. His father was a dotor soer player named Dondinho. His mother wanted him to be a soer player dotor. As a young man Pelé wanted to work in mediine an airport. Pelé s first job was as a shoe leaner at Bauru airport station. He joined Santos when he was 10 15 years old. The first World Cup he played in was in Spain Sweden. He sored six goals and Brazil lost won. His wife Rosemeri was wasn t a big soer fan. 3 a 1 b 3 2 d 1 e 2 4 a C H A b B M A R R I E D P 5 a 1 b 5 6 d 4 e 8 f 9 g 10 h 2 i 3 j 7 6 a 4 b 6 5 d 2 e 1 f 3 A d F I N A L T e O I N J U R Y Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Pelé - Answer keys of 1