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Unit 3
Swimming across Borders
By
Dr. Amal Shousha
Acknowledgement
• This power point presentation is part of the
collaborative work of fifteen ELI / KAU female
English language instructors.
• The project comprises the PowerPoint
presentations which are presented to the
students, the worksheets uploaded on the
contributors websites and the revision units.
• The names of the teachers who collaborated in
the project are as follows according to
alphabetical order as per first name:
Acknowledgement (cont..)
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Ms. Amany Abuliel
Dr. Amal Shousha
Ms. Dahlia Yuosri
Ms. Fatima Atteya
Ms. Gehan Ismail
Ms. Hanan Orabi
Ms. Heba Tantawy
Ms. Ingie Zakaria
Ms. Jehan jahin
Ms. Manal Bassiouni
Ms. Marwa Eldeeb
Ms. Nahed Moussa
Ms. Ragia Magdeldin
Ms. Sherine Eldeeb
Ms. Zainab Hefnawy
Main idea of the Unit
Look at the picture, answer the following questions:
Who is the person in the uniform? Who are all the
people around him? What are they doing? Why?
Main idea of the Unit
• This unit explores the characteristics, abilities,
and achievements of athletes.
New Vocabulary
• Athletes (n.) : Someone who has sports abilities
• heroes (n.): a man who is admired for doing
something extremely brave (heroine)
• Admire (v.): to respect and like someone because
he/she has done something that you think is good.
• League (n.): professional baseball
• Plane Crash: plane accident
• Tolerate (v.): not have problems with
• Talent (n.): be naturally good at something
More New Vocabulary
• Broke the record: was better than the best
ever
• Outstanding (adj.): better than excellent
• Border (n.): line separating two countries
• Achievements (n.): things that you do
successfully
• Challenge (n.): something that is interesting
because it is difficult
More New Vocabulary
• Biography (n.): a book in which someone writes about his
own life.
• Autobiography (n.): a book that tells what has happened
in someone’s life written by someone else.
• Vita/ vitae (n.): a list of the most important events in a
person’s life with the dates of these events.
• Marathon (n.): a 26-mile 385 yards (42.2k) race.
• Cross- Country: distance race across land, instead of on
roads.
• Championship (n.):a competition to find which player,
team etc is the best in a particular sport.
• Ambassador(n.): representative of one’s country
Reading One: Swimming to open Borders
PP. 41- 44
• It is the story of Lynne Cox, a long – distance
swimmer who has not only broken records,
but who also swims to
focus attention on and
to lessen political tensions
among countries.
Reading Passage p. 42
Reading for Main Ideas
• Match the sentence beginnings on the left
with those on the right
1. Lynne Cox breaks
a lot of records
2. Lynne Cox can swim
in very cold water
3. Lynne Cox swims
between countries
a. because she wants
to encourage peace.
b. because she is very
fast and can tolerate
cold water.
c. because she has an
extra layer of fat
around her organs.
Answer Key
1. b
2. c
3. a
Reading for Details
1. Put the sentences in order by time; 1 for what
happened first, 2 what happened second …etc.
…… Lynne breaks the English Channel record.
…… Lynne swims off the coast of Southern
California.
…… Lynne swims across the Bering Strait.
…… Lynne swims between Argentina and Chile.
…… Lynne swims around the Cape of Good Hope.
Answer Key
The order is as follows:
2
1
4
5
3
2.Complete the sentences with the
number in the following list:
10 30 12 3 2.7 38 5
1. Lynne Cox started to swim when she was …… years old.
2. She swam …… miles across the Bering Strait.
3. The water in the Bering Strait was as cold as ….. degrees
Fahrenheit.
4. Lynne swam the English Channel in less than …… hours.
5. When Lynne was swimming around the Cape of Good Hope, a ….
foot shark came too close.
6. When she was swimming near Sweden, she had to watch out for
…… foot- long jellyfish.
7. Most people would die after about ….. minutes in very cold water.
Answer Key
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
5
2.7
38
10
12
3
30
Reading Two: The Athlete’s
Life PP.45- 46
• It presents the professional achievements of
three well- known athletes, Pele, Grete Waitz,
and George Foreman, in Vitae form. A vita is
a list of the most important events in a
person’s life with the dates of these events.
3. Focus on Vocabulary
1. Match situations on the left with appropriate quotes on the
right:
1. Encouraging a player
to accept a challenge.
a. “Put up with it just a
little longer.”
2. Telling a player that he is
outstanding.
b. “it’s hard. But I know you
can do it.”
3. Telling a player to
tolerate a difficulty.
c. “you ran that race faster
than anyone ever ran it
before.”
4. Complimenting a player
who broke a record.
d. “you did very well this
year: twelve wins and only
two losses.”
5. Summarizing the team’s
achievement.
e. “you ‘re better than most
players I know of. You ‘re
the best player on the
team.”
6. Praising a player for his
talent.
f. “you ‘re a natural athlete.”
Answer Key
1. b
2. e
3. a
4.c
5. d
6. f
2. Complete with words from the
list:
Borders- broke- encouraged- national- organsoutstanding- tolerate- waves
1. athletes’ hearts, lungs, and other major ……. are in excellent
condition.
2. An open- water swimmer must …. cold.
3. In the water, Lynne Cox can’t see the …… she crosses.
4. First, she ran in small local races; then when she was good
enough, she ran in …… races.
5. Big …… are a problem- they make swimming difficult.
6. She lost the race and wanted to quit, but her friends ….. her to try
again.
7.He was a (n) …… boxer; he won the
heavyweight championship.
8. In 1992, Yoko ….. the world record for speed
skating 1, 000 meters.
Answer key:
1. Organs 2. tolerate 3. borders 4. national
5. waves 6. encouraged 7. outstanding
8. broke
4. Focus on Writing
Transition words of time
They are used to :
1- show the relationships between the sentences
in a piece of writing.
2- show time relationships. They help the reader
understand which event happened first, which
happened second and so on.
Transition words are like : first, then, next, and later.
They are followed by a comma.
2. Complete the story with transition words of
time from the following list.
finally
first
next
then
Bonnie Blair could skate by the time she was two years
old, and by the age of four, she was in races. (1) ……….,
she skated in group races .(2)………., she took up speed
skating, where only two skaters race at a time. She won
many races. (3) ………, in 1984, she made the U.S.
Olympic team, but she didn’t win any medals. (4)………,
in 1988, Bonnie Blair made the U.S. Olympic team again,
and this time she won both gold and bronze medals.
Answer Key
(1)First
(2)Then or next
(3)Next or then
(4)Finally
The Present Progressive Tense
• We use this tense to refer to what is
happening at the moment of speaking.
• Form:
• Is / are / am + verb + ing
• He is walking to school now.
• They are helping their mother at the
moment.
• I am writing my report this afternoon.
More about the present progressive
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Spelling rules:
When we add the “ing” to the end of the verb we should:
1. cancel the “e” at the end of the verb
arrive ……………..arriving
write ……………….writing
2. double the last consonant if it has a vowel before it
run ……………..running
stop…………….stopping
3. not cancel the “y” at the end of the verb before adding “ing:
play……………..playing
carry …………..carrying
More about the present progressive
• Negative form:
is / are / am + not + verb + ing
Examples:
He is not coming to the office today.
I am not watching TV now.
You are not listening to the radio at the moment.
• Question form:
Yes/ No : Is / Are / Am + Subject + verb ing …….?
Examples:
Is she coming today?
Are they reading now?
Am I coming with you?
More about the present progressive
• Wh questions:
Wh word + is / are / am + subject + verb ing ………?
Examples:
Where are you going now?
When is she going shopping?
What am I doing at the moment?
Some words and phrases refer to the present progressive
such as: “now, at the moment, today, Look!, Listen!, this
week….”
2. Use the words to write sentences.
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2.
3.
4.
at/ I/ my/ friend/ smiling/ am
biking/ is/ across/ Robin/ America/ not
soccer/ they/ playing/ in/ not/ park/ are/ the
to/ game/ we/ trying/win/are/this
Answer Key
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2.
3.
4.
I’m smiling at my friend.
Robin isn’t biking across America.
They aren’t playing soccer in the park.
We’re trying to win this game.
3. complete the paragraph using the present
progressive tense of the verbs provided. Use
contractions.
I 1.(watch) a football game. My team 2.(play) for the
championship. For once I 3.(not watch) the game on TV. I
was finally able to get a ticket, and I’m actually at the
stadium! My team’s quarterback 4.(throw) the ball to one
of his receivers. The receiver 5.(run) down the field. The
players on the other team 6.(try) to stop the receiver from
catching the ball. But I think they 7.(not/ run) fast enough.
I think he might be able to catch the ball! But the man in
front of me 8.(jump) up and down. He 9.(make) it
impossible for me to see what 10.(happen). Too bad I
11.(not/ sit) at home in front of my TV!
Answer Key
1.’m watching
2.’s playing
3.’m not watching
4.’s throwing
5.’s running
6. Are trying
7.’re not running
8.is jumping
9.’s making
10.’s happening
11.’m not sitting
Good Luck
Best wishes
by
Dr. Amal Shousha