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Track 10:

CRAZY COMPETITIONS!

There are lots of competitions in the USA and some of them are a bit crazy!

A. The Idiotarod The Idiotarod is an annual race in twenty different US cities.


Each team must have five people and a shopping cart. One person usually
rides in the cart and four people pull it. Teams can decorate the shopping
cart but they can’t change the wheels. All the teams have to start and finish
at the same place but they don’t have to run on the same roads. The
members of each team must cross the finish line together and they mustn’t
finish without the cart!

B. The Mud Bowl Championship Mud Bowl football is similar to normal


American football, so players can pick up the ball and run with it. There are
also two teams, but the match is shorter. The winner is the team with the
most goals at the end of sixty minutes. The really big difference is that the
players have to play in a field with half a metre of mud!

Track 11:

1. Learning to win and lose is important in a child’s education because it


teaches you about life. So I think competitive sports in schools are good for
teaching children. They’re also good for their physical health, because when
children try to win, they work harder and get more exercise. The other good
thing about competitive sports is that you learn to work well in teams when
you play in matches. Competitions are a great lesson in teamwork.

2. Some children aren’t good at sport, so when school sports are


competitive, they always lose. That’s really bad for the child. The fact is that
not all children are the same and some children don’t like doing sport. I think
schools in my country should be more like the schools in Finland. They get
good results but they aren’t competitive and they don’t have competitive
sports either. So when a child can’t do a sport very well, that’s OK as long as
they do their best and try hard at everything they do.
3. We have a sports day at my school and the children love it. Yes, winning
is nice for a child, but the whole day is also a lot of fun. So, overall, I don’t
think there’s a problem with having competitive sports in school – the
problem is with some of the mothers and fathers. Some parents hate losing
and they get very competitive. When there’s a race or a match, some of
them shout at their kids. They think it’s the Olympic Games or something!

Track 14:

In Bolivia, football is the country’s national sport but the country is also
famous for another sport – wrestling. Local people like watching the wrestling
and it’s very popular with tourists. It’s an exciting mixture of sport, drama
and entertainment. When modern wrestling started in Bolivia in the 1950s,
the competitors were all men, but nowadays women are also competing in
the ring. The city of El Alto is a good place to watch the wrestling. Hundreds
spectators go to the fights in the evening. This evening, the crowd is sitting
round a huge wrestling ring and they shout: ‘Bring them on! Bring them on!’
Suddenly, the commentator is speaking into a microphone: ‘Ladies and
Gentlemen. It’s time for Yolanda and Claudina!’ The crowd is screaming with
excitement as two women in colourful clothes enter the ring. Yolanda and
Claudina are like famous pop stars. They smile and wave to their fans. The
music stops and the referee starts the fight. Claudina jumps on Yolanda.
Then Yolanda throws Claudina on the floor. As Claudina lies on the floor,
Yolanda smiles and waves to the crowd. Then, Claudina gets up and pushes
Yolanda onto the ground. One minute Yolanda is winning. The next minute,
Claudina is winning. The spectators go crazy! Away from the ring, many
wrestlers are women with families. At home Yolanda has a normal and quiet
family life. She has two daughters and she makes clothes for a living. Her
father was also a wrestler, so it’s a family tradition. In answer to the
question, ‘Would your daughters like to become wrestlers one day?’ Yolanda
says they wouldn’t. She answers: ‘My daughters ask me why I do this. It’s
dangerous and they complain that wrestling doesn’t bring any money into
the house.’ So why does she do it? Yolanda loves wrestling because of her
fans, and she has lots of them. One of her fans is called Esperanza Cancina.
She pays $1.50 (a large part of her salary) to sit near the ring. Esperanza
likes watching the wrestling because she says: ‘We laugh and we forget our
problems for three or four hours’

Track 15:
Track 16:

1 interested

2 should

3 friends

4 write

5 half

6 what

(yeah, 30s, vậy thôi á)

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