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    Learning Activity 1 Evidence: Forum "Football Vs The Others"

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    The document discusses the popularity of football in Colombia compared to other sports. It notes that while Colombia has excellent athletes in sports like cycling, boxing, and BMX, football is by far the most popular and receives most of the government sports budget and television coverage. However, some argue this is unfair to athletes in other sports who must work harder to gain support. The learning activity asks readers to discuss which sports they follow, their views on the unequal popularity and support of football, and ideas for how to boost other sports in Colombia.

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    Learning Activity 1 Evidence: Forum "Football Vs The Others"

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    The document discusses the popularity of football in Colombia compared to other sports. It notes that while Colombia has excellent athletes in sports like cycling, boxing, and BMX, football is by far the most popular and receives most of the government sports budget and television coverage. However, some argue this is unfair to athletes in other sports who must work harder to gain support. The learning activity asks readers to discuss which sports they follow, their views on the unequal popularity and support of football, and ideas for how to boost other sports in Colombia.

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    The document discusses the popularity of football in Colombia compared to other sports. It notes that while Colombia has excellent athletes in sports like cycling, boxing, and BMX, football is by far the most popular and receives most of the government sports budget and television coverage. However, some argue this is unfair to athletes in other sports who must work harder to gain support. The learning activity asks readers to discuss which sports they follow, their views on the unequal popularity and support of football, and ideas for how to boost other sports in Colombia.

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    Learning Activity 1 Evidence: Forum "Football Vs The Others"

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    The document discusses the popularity of football in Colombia compared to other sports. It notes that while Colombia has excellent athletes in sports like cycling, boxing, and BMX, football is by far the most popular and receives most of the government sports budget and television coverage. However, some argue this is unfair to athletes in other sports who must work harder to gain support. The learning activity asks readers to discuss which sports they follow, their views on the unequal popularity and support of football, and ideas for how to boost other sports in Colombia.

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    Learning activity 1

    Evidence: Forum “Football vs the others”

    Colombia has always been an outstanding country when it comes to sports.


    Names such as Martin Emilio “Cochise” Rodriguez, Antonio Cervantes “kid
    Pambelé” and more recently, Mariana Pajón and Nairo Quintana, are points of
    reference when talking about cycling, boxing and BMX.

    But, although we have excellent athletes in all these sports, football is by far the
    most popular and most supported sport in our country. A great part of the
    budget that is designated to sports goes just to football. Most of the sporting
    events broadcasted on national television are related to football. This can be
    seen as unfair with other sports where athletes have to make a bigger effort to
    receive support and attention from the government.

    Answer the following questions in your participation in the forum:

     What sport do you follow in Colombia and why? (If you don’t follow
    sports here, or at all, explain why not.)

     I dare to say that I love football because it makes me feel happy and
    although I love football, I rarely paly it. I think that in everything there are always
    two sides to the coin, heads or tails, I mean that while players are playing, fans
    are watching. So, for that reason when my team plays in Bogotá, I wear my team
    jersy and I accompany them from the tribune.

     What do you think about the popularity of football and the fact that it
    receives more attention from the government than other sports? Is it
    fair?

     I consider It’s not fair, for as long as I can remember, Football has all the
    attention from the government than others sports, not at all but the
    majority. I think it is because there are more population interested in
    football, it gets more attention from the government. You know, wherever
    you go, you come across a soccer field and if the majority of the population
    likes football, the government will take advantage of the situation to
    manipulate the people.
     What can we do in order to help athletes in other disciplines to have
    better conditions and support?

     Unless the population changes their preferences in sport, I think it is a


    complex dilemma to solve, but I think is a good idea to do awareness
    campaigns and acceptance of new sports because this would attract the
    attention of new investors and even the government.

     How can we motivate national channels to broadcast a wider type of


    sport programs and not just football?

     Only if we attract the attention of new sponsors, other sports will have more
    relevance in the media and more people would choose to prefer or practice
    a new sport. After that happens, it will be possible to attract the attention of
    the government, which would improve the conditions of these sport.

    Use adverbial clauses in your answers (at least 4 examples), and vocabulary
    and ideas about sports studied in this learning activity (at least 6 words from
    the vocabulary). Remember to use connectors and punctuation.

    For the second part of this activity you have to read your partners’ posts, select
    one and through the link “Responder” write your opinion about it. Use the
    vocabulary and ideas about sports studied in this learning activity. Remember
    to use connectors and punctuation.

    Steps to participate in the forum:

     Click the Activity 1 button in the main menu. Then click on Evidence:
    Forum “Football vs the others”.
     Enter to the sequence, click on Responder, then click on Enviar.
     Select one of the partner’s commentaries and then express your opinion
    clicking on the button Responder.
     Type the subject and the content with your opinion, then click on Enviar.

    Criterios de
    evaluación
     Describe situaciones empleando clausulas adverbiales de tiempo y
    opinión teniendo en cuenta la estructura y el vocabulario requerido.

     Emplea vocabulario técnico relacionado con actividades físicas.

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