Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, is considered the best player of all time. Pele was born on October 21st, 1940 in the countryside of Bazil.  Pele 's father was a professional player and taught Pele how to play football when he was very young.

Pele started his career at the age of 15 when he started playing for Santos Football Club. In 1958, Pele won the World Cup for the first time at the age of 17. It was the first time the World Cup was broadcast on television. People all over the world have watched Pele play Cheong and cheering.

Pele won three World Cup and scored 1281 goals in 22 years. In 1999, he was voted the football player of the Century. Pele is the national hero of Brazil. During his career, he became well-known around  the world as "The King of Football."

 Read again and answer the questions.

1. Where was Pele born ?

2. Why do people call him : The King ò football?

3. When did he become Football Player of the Century ?

4. How many goals đi he score in total?

5. Is he a professional Football Player?

in Midfield, from where he regularly scores goals. Ronaldo started kicking a ball around when he was three. He played very skillfully. When he was ten years old, he joined Sporting Lisbon and became the only player in their history.

In 2009, Ronaldo joined his boyhood heroes Real Madrid and became the most expensive footballer in history. He earned a lot of money at that time. He broke Real’s scoring record in his second season with 53 goals in all competitions. In 2012, Diego Mara Dona said Ronaldo was “the best player on the planet”.

 He was said to be the best player on the ________.

A. world 

B. planet 

C. history 

D. supermarket

in Midfield, from where he regularly scores goals. Ronaldo started kicking a ball around when he was three. He played very skillfully. When he was ten years old, he joined Sporting Lisbon and became the only player in their history.

In 2009, Ronaldo joined his boyhood heroes Real Madrid and became the most expensive footballer in history. He earned a lot of money at that time. He broke Real’s scoring record in his second season with 53 goals in all competitions. In 2012, Diego Mara Dona said Ronaldo was “the best player on the planet”.

 He began to kick a ball when he was_______.

A. ten 

B. three 

C. twenty 

D. fifty three

Roger Federer is probably the best and most famous tennis player in the world today. He was born on August 8th, 1981 in Balse, Switzerland. His parents encouraged him to start playing tennis when he was eight years old. He won his first Wimbledon title, the Wimbledon Junior, when he was sixteen. Over the next few years, he played all over the world. In Australia he played for his country in the 2000 Olympic Games. Then in 2003 he began to show how good he was. He started the year by winning two tournaments in a row, in Dubai and Marseilles. He also won his first Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships. In 2004 he won three out of four Grand Slam title. When he is not playing tennis, Federer is busy with his special project, the Roger Federer Foundation, which helps disadvantaged children.

1. When and where was Roger Federer born?

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2. When did he win his first Grand Slam title?
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3. What did he do in 2004?
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4. What is the name of his special project?
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5. Who does his project help?
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Roger federer is probably the best and most famous tennis player in the world today. He was born on August 8th, 1981 in Basle, Switzerland. His parents encouraged him to star playing tennis when he was eight years old. He won his first Wimbledon title, the Wimbledon Junior, when he was sixteen. Over the next few years, he played all over the world. In Australia he played for his country in the 2000 Olympic Games. Then in 2003 he began to show how good he was. He started the year by winning two tournaments in a row, in Dubai and Marseiles. He also won his first Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships. In 2004 he won three out of four Grand Slam titles. When he is not playing tennis, Federer is busy with his special project, the Roger Federer Foundation, which helps disadvantaged children.

1. When and where was Roger Federer born?

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2. When did he win his first Grand Slam title?

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3. What did he do in 2004?

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4. What is the name of his special project?

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5. Who does his project help?

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- Thanks

in Midfield, from where he regularly scores goals. Ronaldo started kicking a ball around when he was three. He played very skillfully. When he was ten years old, he joined Sporting Lisbon and became the only player in their history.

In 2009, Ronaldo joined his boyhood heroes Real Madrid and became the most expensive footballer in history. He earned a lot of money at that time. He broke Real’s scoring record in his second season with 53 goals in all competitions. In 2012, Diego Mara Dona said Ronaldo was “the best player on the planet”.

 Where was Cristiano Ronaldo from?

A. England 

B. The South 

C. Portugal 

D. USA

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Ex1: Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:

   Benjamin Franklin ..... was born .....  (be born) in Boston in 1706. He .................. (be) the fifteenth of the seventeen children of the poor candlemaker. He .............. (go) to school only one year. He .................. (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of fourteen he ................... (decide) to be a write. He .................. (copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he .............. (become) the best known writer in his time.

   When he ............. (be) seventeen, he ............... (leave) Boston and ................ (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He ................. (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and ............. (retire) from bisiness as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he .................. (spend) the next forty years for his government. He .................. (play) an important role in the founding of the USA.

   Franklin ..................... (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He .............. (draw) electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ............. (write) one of the first text books on electricity. He ........... (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other practical tools. He ............... (make) a study of water and .............. (discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even ............... (invent)  bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and .............. (need) them himself.

  Franklin .................. (do) all these things and many more because he ............. (believe) he ............. (can).

Part 3: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. (15 points)
A POP STAR
John Lennon was (0)born in Liverpool in 1940. He was always (1).................................on music and played in a pop group (2) ........................................ school and Art college .
John (3).................................. married to Cynthia in 1962 and they had a son (4)............................... name was Julian. At that time, John was a member of a group (5)................................“ The Beatles” . Many beautiful songs (6) .................................. written by John and wherever the group went, crowds of fans gathered to see them . They (7).................................... scream and faint when “ The Beatles” played and lots of people have their hair cut in a Beatles style. Soon, everyone had heard (8)..................................... “The Beatles” and John was (9).............................. richer than he had ever thought.
Having achieved world-wide success, John started to make records (10)................................. his own after 1968 , and it was in the same year when (11).................................... marriage to Cynthia came to an end. He had met Yoko Ono (12).......................... he married the following year. John lost weight and grew his hair long , as can (13) ................................ seen on the covers of the records that he made with Yoko. He set up home in the United States and had a son called Sean.
Many people considered John Lennon to be (14) ............................... most talented of all “The Beatles”. He sang about peace and love and so when he was murdered by one of his fans, outside his New York apartment , the whole world (15).................................... shocked . More than 50,000 fans turned up to a ceremony in his memory. He was only forty when he died.

in Midfield, from where he regularly scores goals. Ronaldo started kicking a ball around when he was three. He played very skillfully. When he was ten years old, he joined Sporting Lisbon and became the only player in their history.

In 2009, Ronaldo joined his boyhood heroes Real Madrid and became the most expensive footballer in history. He earned a lot of money at that time. He broke Real’s scoring record in his second season with 53 goals in all competitions. In 2012, Diego Mara Dona said Ronaldo was “the best player on the planet”.

 He became a ________ superstar.

A. volleyball 

B. football 

C. tennis 

D. badminton