English 7 · Unit 6: Sports and games · Cambridge Global English Stage 7
6.7 Improve your writing
15 questions · e.g. I've always been ____ on sport.
Questions
1. I'm 12 years old and I've always been ____ on sport.
Check2. From the age of five I loved ____ a ball around a field.
Check3. At primary school we didn't do much ____ sport.
Check4. …but I was always ____ around at top speed.
Check5. …____ trees and racing up and down the exercise bars.
Check6. When I was ten my dad and I joined a ____ club. I loved it, especially going down the river.
Check7. I loved it, especially going down the river ____.
Check8. My dream is to become the fastest long ____ runner in the school.
Check9. I've got the stamina and the ____ to succeed, I think.
Check10. What is the first sentence of Georgia's paragraph?
- I swim at my local pool once a week.
- My name's Georgia Adams and I live in London.
- I'm 14 years old and I've never been brilliant at sport.
- However, I really enjoy being active.
11. What comes after "I'm 14 years old and I've never been brilliant at sport"?
- He's only 13 but he swims much faster than me!
- I do it because swimming makes me feel really alive.
- I love the feeling of speed.
- However, I really enjoy being active, but not in a competitive way.
12. What comes after "I swim at my local pool once a week, winter and summer"?
- And I also go skiing with my family.
- I do it because swimming makes me feel really alive.
- He's only 13 but he swims much faster than me!
- I'm 14 years old.
13. What comes after "And I also go skiing with my family in Switzerland every year"?
- I love the feeling of speed and the wind in my face as I come down a mountain.
- My name's Georgia Adams.
- I do it because swimming makes me feel really alive.
- He's only 13 but he swims much faster than me!
14. What is the last sentence?
- I don't have any big sporting ambitions for the future.
- I love the feeling of speed.
- He's only 13 but he swims much faster than me!
- However, I really enjoy being active.
15. Which sentence comes just before "He's only 13 but he swims much faster than me!"?
- I love the feeling of speed.
- …one day I'd like to win a swimming race against my brother Ben.
- I swim at my local pool once a week.
- My name's Georgia Adams.