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Activity 7 Worksheet – Sports linking
1. Sports
Look at these sporting personalities. Match the two columns.
1 Venus Williams a English football player
2 Diego Maradona b Spanish Formula 1 driver
3 Bobby Robson c American golfer
4 Marion Jones d Swiss tennis player
5 Martina Hingis e British athlete
6 Michelle Wei f Pakistani cricket player
7 Fernando Alonso g American tennis player
8 Imran Khan h Argentinian football player
9 Suzuki Ichiro i Filipino boxer
10 Manny Pacquiao j Japanese baseball player
2. Online texts
Discuss these questions:
• While youwere reading theSimpleEnglishWikipedia textaboutBobbyRobson, did you click on any of the hyperlinks? Why/why not? (If you were reading it on the projector screen, or on paper, which links would you have liked to follow? Why?)
• Doyoufinditeasytoreadanonlinetextwithmanyhyperlinks?Why/whynot?
• Doyouthinkthereweretoomany/notenoughhyperlinksintheRobsontext?
• ExactlywhatinformationintheRobsontextwashyperlinked?Arethesehyperlinks a good choice? What hyperlinks would you include or leave out if this was your online text?
• Whatistheeffectofincludinghyperlinksinanonlinetext?
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3. Venus Williams
Read this text in 30 seconds:
Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980 in Lynwood, California, United States) is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player and Olympic gold medalist who has won 13 Grand Slam titles, including 5 singles, 6 women’s doubles, and 2 mixed doubles titles. Williams is the older sister of fellow former World No. 1 tennis player Serena Williams. The Williams sisters are noted for their power games, and Venus holds the record for the fastest serve ever recorded by a female player in a main draw match (128.8 mph). Venus Williams played against French player Marion Bartoli in the Wimbledon final on July 7. Williams won her fourth Wimbledon final on July 7, 2007.[From Simple English Wikipedia: simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Williams;
accessed 14/01/2012]
Discuss:
• Wastheexperienceofreadingthistextdifferent?Ifso,howandwhywasit different?
• Imagine that you wrote this text about Williams for Simple EnglishWikipedia. Circle the words you would hyperlink. What kinds of sites would you hyperlink to? Compare with a partner, and explain your hyperlink choices. Then look at the original Simple English Wikipedia entry online and compare.
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