Activity 2a Work in pairs. Answer the questions. 5 min
Objective: to prepare for the next activity
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to write down the new words. (fi ght, coach, champion,
defeat, ring, again) They listen and repeat.
STEP 2: The pupils answer the questions:
1 What famous boxers do you know?
2 Do women do boxing?
3 What do the words fi ght, coach, champion, defeat, ring, again mean?
Activity 2b Work in pairs. Ask and answer. Complete the text. 10 min
Objective: to enable pupils to ask and answer questions
STEP 1: The pupils look at the photos and answer the questions: “Who is this?
What’s her profession?” Accept all answers. Say they will learn about her while
doing Info gap activity.
STEP 2: The pupils read their texts and prepare questions.
STEP 3: The pupils work in pairs and ask questions. They listen to answers and
complete their texts.
Answer key:
Laila Ali was born on December 30, 1977 in the USA. Ali began boxing
when she was 18 years old. She started her fi ghts in 1999 and fi nished in 2007.
Her father is a champion and the most famous boxer in the world. When she told
him that she wanted to box professionally, he was very unhappy because boxing
is a very dangerous profession. “I move in the ring just like my dad and I am
very strong”, she said. She is tall (178 cm) and has 75 kg. Her coach trained her
like a man. She is a niece of famous boxer Rahman Ali, the younger brother of
Muhammad Ali who was an Olympic champion.
In her fi rst match, on October 8, 1999 Ali boxed April Fowler and won.
Although this was Ali’s fi rst match, many journalists came because she was
Muhammad Ali’s daughter.
Then Ali had eight wins one by one. On the evening of June 8, 2001, Ali and
Frazier fi nally met. Ali won and became a world champion again. She had 24
fi ghts and she won all of them.
In the match on February 2, 2007 in South Africa Ali defeated O’Neil. It was
Ali’s last professional fi ght.
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