TOPIC 11

Panama is a country of Athletes. We have excellent athletes in

different sport disciplines and we have won different prizes in
international and world contests. Some of our famous athletes
are: Irving Saladino, Roberto Duran, Eilin Coparropa, Mariano
Rivera, Roman Torres, Felipe Baloy, Carlos Lee, and Alonso
Edward.
…On 2018, It was
OBJECTIVES the first
participation of
x To categorize sports practiced in Panama.
Panama in a
world soccer
x To answer questions about sports and recreational activities.
cup?
 Can you mention three sports you
have practiced?
1.______________________________
2.______________________________
3.______________________________

TOPIC
EXPLANATION READ CAREFULLY AND PRACTICE

Sports are classified in: adventure, aquatic, strength and agility,

extreme, mountain and motorized. Some examples are:

Hockey Archery Hiking

Hockey is a Archery is Hiking is an

game sport played activity in
played on by shooting which
field or ice. an arrow and
people take
In Panama using a bow.
long walks.
it is played
on field.

Swimming Diving

Swimming is a Diving is a beautiful

water sport sport where athletes
where athletes plunge into water
compete by performing different
swimming fast. styles.

Motorcycle
Racing
Motorcycle Canoeing is a sport
Racing is a sport where one gets into a
practiced by both little boat made for
professionals and the sport called
amateurs on a canoe and uses a
roads, tracks, single-bladed paddle
closed circuits, to steer the canoe.
and natural
terrain.
 Look up the meaning of these words in your
VOCABULARY
English-Spanish dictionary.

✔ lake ✔ cord ✔ bridge

✔ oscillate ✔ dissipate 9 hot –air balloon
✔ bungee jumping ✔ crane
✔ surfing
✔ structure ✔ building
✔ stretch

READING
COMPREHENSION READ CAREFULLY

I a
am Juan and I am extreme sport lover. Let me
share with you my best experience doing these
sha
kinds of sports.
kin

One of the best experiences of my life was to do

On
bungee jumping. Do you know what budging
bun
jum
jumping is? It is an activity that involves jumping
from a tall structure while connected to a
large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a
larg
fixed structure, such as a building, bridge or
fixe
crane;
cra but it is also possible to jump from a movable
object,
obj such as a hot-air-balloon or helicopter.
The thrill comes from the free-falling and the
rebound. When
reb the person jumps,
the cord stretches and the jumper flies upwards
again as the cord recoils and continues to oscillate
aga
up and down until all the kinetic energy is
dis
dissipated.

remember that sunny, quiet, and beautiful day. My

I re
first jump was from an old bridge at the Alajuela
firs
lake. I always jump there. It is a jump of 84 meters
lak
(252 ft.) of free falling. It is just fantastic. Some
(25
people think it is dangerous, but if you use the
peo
cor
correct safety equipment it can be a unique
exp
experience in life.

Wh about you? Do you dear to jump?

What
 ACTIVITY 1 READING COMPREHENSION

After reading several times, answer the following questions.

1. What is the title of the reading?

_________________________________________________________________.
2. What is bungee jumping?

__________________________________________________________________.
3. How does Juan consider himself in terms of sports?

___________________________________________________________________
4. Where does Juan do Bungee Jumping?

5. How high is the jump from the Alajuela bridge?

__________________________________________________________________

ACTIVITY 2
COMPLETE THE CHART

Classify sports in the following chart. You can provide your own examples.

Aquatic Adventure/ Mountain Strength/ Motorized

Extreme Agility

football baseball fishing snorkeling and diving

STRUCTURE
rafting surfing boxing hiking
SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
karate archery motorized racing bungee jumping
 STRUCTURE YES/NO QUESTIONS

Affirmative Negative
Auxiliary + subject +verb + object

Short Answers Short Answers

Do you like adventure sports? Yes, I do. No, I don’t.

Does she play volleyball? Yes, she does. No, she doesn’t

Do you like
swimming?
Yes, I do.

I love it.

ACTIVITY 3 COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE MISSING WORDS

1. __________ you like basketball?

Yes, ______________________-

2. _______________ Joshua practice hockey?

Yes, _________________. He loves this sport.

3. ___________________ Henry practice motorized racing?

_________________, he ________________. He practices bungee jumping.

4. Do the Panamanian soccer team go to the international competition?

Yes, It_________________.
 FIND THE SPORTS

BASEBALL SOCCER

FOOTBALL GYMNASTICS

HOCKEY SWIMMING

SOFTBALL GOLF

TENNIS KARATE