EXTRA PRACTICE
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G1
1
Match the two halves of the sentences.
1
If I needed more money for my sport,
2
I would get a lot fitter
3
Our players might win more matches
4
If more people were interested in this sport,
5
We would host a dragon-boat festival
6
What would you do
a
I’d try to get funding from a company.
b
it would receive more funding.
c
if they practised more seriously.
d
if you won a lot of money?
e
if I played more sport.
f
if we thought enough boats would enter.
2
Complete this text with the correct form of the
verbs.
What
1
you
(do) if you
2
(not have)
enough money to continue your sports club?
I’m in that position now. I run a badminton club, and
we’re in danger of closing because we don’t have
enough members. If we
3
(have) more members,
we
4
(get) enough money to pay the sports centre
that we play in. They’ve put their prices up – if their
prices
5
(not be) so high, we
6
(be) in a
better position. If we
7
(not have to) spend all
our money on paying for the club, we
8
(have)
enough money to advertise for more members. The other
problem is insurance – we have to have insurance, and
that costs money, too. If we
9
(not have) insurance,
we
10
(have to) pay a lot of money if someone had
an accident.
One way of getting more members would be to accept
any players into the club, but if we
11
(do) that, we
12
(get) people who can’t play well enough. Can
you give me any advice?
G2
3
There are mistakes in four of these
sentences. Find the mistakes and correct them.
1
We can’t get funding enough for our club.
2
There are too much aspects to this problem.
3
They aren’t showing enough interest in our idea.
4
Most of our players aren’t enough competitive to win.
5
I can’t play another game. I’m too tired.
6
There are too many adverts for expensive trainers
on TV.
7
It costs much too money to do this sport.
8
My sports psychologist told me I wasn’t risk-seeking
enough.
KL
4
Complete the conversation below with the
words and phrases in the box.
I’d a tricky question to be honest think
Let me mean
A:
OK, here’s a question for you. Imagine you can have
all the TV sports channels free for six months, or you
can become a free member of a gym for 12 months.
What would you do?
B:
Hmm, OK, now that’s
1
!
A:
I know it is. So, TV or gym? What’s it going to be?
B:
Well, I’m not sure.
2
see. I love football,
especially the English Premier League, but,
3
,
I think
4
take the gym membership.
A:
Really? I
5
, those TV sports channels are
very
expensive. Especially the big English games that you
like.
B:
I know! However, I
6
I’d take the gym
membership instead of the TV sports channels.
V1
5
Find the sports in V1 for these descriptions.
1
It’s played by two teams of 11 people.
2
This involves a lot of people on a river.
3
This can be played with two or four people. It’s very
fast.
4
This is like a fight between two people, with no
equipment.
5
This is usually done on the sea. You can do it alone
or with other people.
6
You can do this alone or with others. You have to
have bikes.
V2
6
Complete these sentences.
1
Some women don’t like football, but
.
2
Despite the growing number of female fans,
advertisers
.
3
The number of female football fans is increasing,
so
.
4
Although a record number of female fans watched
the World Cup,
.
V3
7
Choose the correct adjectives 1–4 in this job
advert for a tennis instructor.
We are looking for the right person to
teach the tennis stars of the future
You will work on your own and be responsible for
all the tennis instruction at the club, so you must be
1
competitive / self-sufficient
.
We need a
2
sociable / risk-seeking
person who will
spend a lot of time with our young people, both playing
tennis and socially. You will need all your skills to teach
the children to be
3
competitive / non-competitive
in
their matches. You will need to try new ways of
teaching and take risks in this job, so we can’t accept
candidates who are too
4
risk-seeking / cautious
.
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