Self-study activity:
Watch the video and complete the blanks in the transcript with the missing words. The activity is suitable for Intermediate students.
Sport is the most (1) ... international language.
Sports get people together and it just makes you forget about everything.
Sport has an international reach that is (2) ... (3) ... . There are more nations competing in the Olympic Games than there are members of the United Nations.
We may disagree on politics and religion but in (4) ... of sport we agree that this is a beautiful game. But whoever wins wins and whoever loses is ok too.
Britain does have a very special (5) in sport, and in world sport because it was the British who (6) ... most of the rules for most of the games played in the world.
Sport is deep in the (7) ... of every community in all parts of this country. There’s no question about that.
We love any sport. You can’t (8) ... the crowd anywhere, to mean Great Britain.
British fans don’t just go and (9) ... British athletes. They understand that sport at its highest level, which is of course borderless.
Competing in the UK is always a pleasure as an athlete and the events are very well run you´re not gonna have to worry about anything except your (10) ... .
Tennis at Wimbledon, football at Wembley, we now have an international track and field center, we will have probably the best (11) ... provision for cycling anywhere in the world.
I take a pride in Britain being a strong sporting nation.
Having the Olympics here is just gonna be phenomenal. The way British sport is at the moment in terms of the way they are achieving and the way they (12) ... the last Olympics is really exciting.
We now appreciate winners in a way we never have a (13) ... to a few years back.
We as a nation, we thrive on (14) ... who we are. I think the Games in particular and these next ten years will put the Great back into Britain.
Key:
1 powerful 2 beyond 3 compare 4 terms 5 play 6 set 7 DNA 8 beat 9 support 10 performance 11 legacy 12 achieved 13 chance 14 showcasing
