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UNIT 2  LESSON 4: SPORT

MY BROTHER AND ME

Last summer I went to Wimbledon and I saw the best tennis match ever! My favourite player was playing my second favourite player and it was exciting until the last moment. Fortunately, my hero won the match! I took lots of photographs.

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Now you know I love tennis, but my brother hates it. He dislikes most sports except football. He wants to see all the matches, even if they are on the telly very late at night. Sometimes they start at eleven in the evening and they end at one o’clock in the night! My parents would never let me see a match that late, but because my dad is a football lover as well, Josh can watch too. It’s not really fair, is it?

The thing with my brother and me is that whatever he loves, I hate. And the other way around it’s the same. I love dancing shows, which he thinks are awful. He loves rugby and there’s nothing I hate more than that. I fancy quizzes on TV, while he wants to put it off as quickly as possible. Of course we start talking and then shouting until my mum or dad come between us and shut off the telivision because we fight.

But there’s one thing we like watching together and that’s extreme sports. Probably because we are both too scared to do those things ourselves. It is very exciting to watch people who are doing some sort of marathon. They start skydiving, then they have to climb a mountain. But that’s not all. When they are on top of the mountain they get on a mountain bike and they have to get down on that. It’s nearly impossible but they do it anyway.

We have seen something very exciting lately. It was something called street luge. I have never seen it before. It is an extreme sport too, which is really extremely dangerous. It’s like skate boarding, but the board is a little longer and the person isn’t standing, but lying on it on his back. In the picture you can see how they do this. Feet first, head last. They wear their regular clothes and a helmet. And then they go downhill. Really fast. And you know what? They only use their feet to stop.  They are going downhill at 140 km per hour and the only brakes they have are their feet. I was so scared that I nearly wet my pants while I was watching them. My brother loved seeing this. He was laughing about it and said that these guys need a new pair of shoes every time they have gone down the hill.

 

I think this is about the only time that me and my brother spend time together and even like it.

match 

exciting 

until 

as much as

to dislike

​

except 

even 

if 

the telly 

at night

​

in the evening 

would 

to let 

that late

fair

​

whatever 

the other way around

the same

to fancy 

while 

​

to put/shut off 

possible

to shout

between 

extreme sports

​

probably 

both 

exciting 

to watch

skydiving

​

to climb 

nearly impossible

anyway

lately

street luge

​

extremely dangerous

board 

to stand

to ly

back

​

feet 

head 

to wear 

helmet

downhill

​

to use 

brakes 

to wet my pants

to spend 

wedstrijd

opwindend/spannend

tot

zoveel als

niet leuk vinden

​

behalve

zelfs

als

de tv

s nachts

​

s avonds

zou

laten

zo laat

eerlijk

​

wat dan ook

andersom

hetzelfde

leuk vinden

terwijl

​

uitzetten

mogelijk

schreeuwen

tussen

extreme sporten

​

waarschijnlijk

beide/allebei

spannend

kijken naar

parachute springen

 

klimmen

bijna onmogelijk

toch

pasgeleden

straat boarden liggend

​

heel erg gevaarlijk

skateboard

staan

liggen

rug

​

voeten

hoofd

dragen (van kleding)

helm

bergafwaarts

​

gebruiken

remmen

in mijn broek plassen

doorbrengen

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