Inside Out David Beckham
WORKSHEET A
David Beckham, one of the world’s most famous footballers, was born in London in 1975 and grew up in the south of England. Both his parents are football fans and support Manchester United, a very popular team from the north of England. It wasn’t surprising, therefore, that Beckham grew up with a love of football and a dream that one day he would put on the famous red shirt of Manchester United. As a young footballer he developed the characteristics that would later make him so successful. He played with a lot of energy and skill, and became especially good at kicking the ball very accurately over a long distance. In 1989, his dream came true when someone from Manchester United saw him playing and asked him to become a junior player at the club. He began playing regularly for United’s first team in 1995, aged 20, and went on to help the club win lots of trophies. When he was 21 he played his first game for the English national team, and at the age of 25 he became captain. His career has had some low points, however. During the 1998 World Cup, for example, he was sent off for kicking an opponent in a very important game for England against Argentina. By the late 1990s, Beckham (or ‘Becks’, to use his nickname) had become a celebrity because of his good looks, his stylish clothes, and most of all his marriage in 1999 to the singer Victoria Adams (also known as ‘Posh Spice’) from the British pop group The Spice Girls. For years it seemed ‘Posh and Becks’ were on the covers of almost every gossip magazine. In early 2003 Beckham had a bad argument with his manager at Manchester United, so later that year he left for Spain to play for Real Madrid. By this time he had become the richest footballer in the world, not only because of his huge salary but also because he had advertising contracts for lots of different products. He now lives with Victoria and their three young sons in Los Angeles, where he plays for a team called LA Galaxy. He and Victoria are still frequently photographed, often while socialising with their celebrity friends.
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Inside Out David Beckham
WORKSHEET B
Exercise 1 Team A Here are the answers to some questions about the text on Worksheet A. Work with your group and write the questions. When you have finished, Team B will have to answer them as part of a quiz. 1. In 1975. 2. He went to Madrid/Spain after he left Manchester United. 3. They are red. 4. They got married in 1999. 5. He was sent off. 6. She was/is a singer. 7. His nickname is Becks. 8. They support Manchester United. 9. They have three children. ………………………………………………………………………………………….. Team B Here are the answers to some questions about the text on Worksheet A. Work with your group and write the questions. When you have finished, Team A will have to answer them as part of a quiz. 1. He was born in London. 2. Her name is Victoria. 3. He was 20. 4. Because he had a bad argument with his manager. 5. Her nickname is ‘Posh’ (or ‘Posh Spice’). 6. They live in Los Angeles. 7. Because he kicked an opponent. 8. Manchester is in the north of England. 9. They don’t have any daughters.
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Inside Out David Beckham
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Exercise 2 Student A You have the same grid as your partner, but with different words completed. Take it in turns with your partner to describe the words in the grid, and fill in the gaps. When you have all the words, the name of the position David Beckham usually plays will read from top to bottom. 1
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