Have a nice vacation

Have a Nice Vacation

Dear 8th graders,

This semester was really great. I´ll miss you. Have a great time during your vacation.
See you in August.

Teacher Renata

Exercises

Here is a grammar exercise. Try to do it and send the answers.

Write complete questions.

1) What ________________________________ for lunch?
My mother cooked spaghetti for lunch.
2) Where ________________________________ two years ago?
My relatives worked in a snack bar two years ago.
3) When ________________________________ soccer?
I played soccer last Friday.
4) Why ________________________________ his car?
My dad sold his car because it was old.
5) Who ________________________________ candy?
Fanny bought candy.
6) Who ________________________________ flowers to?
John gave flowers to Stephani.

World Cup

Pelé
Pelé helped to make football one of the world’s favourite sports. He was born with the name Edson Arantes do Nascimento in Brazil, on October 23, 1940. His father was a football player, but in those days football players didn’t get a lot of money. When Pelé was ten, he began to work, cleaning people’s shoes in the street. On Saturdays he went to the football stadium and cleaned the shoes of people watching the matches there. One day Pelé said he wanted to be a professional football player. His mother was angry but Pelé said, ‘Mother, I was born for football’. Pelé began playing football for a small team near his home, and when he was only sixteen, he went to play for the Santos Football Club. He got four goals in his first match. When he was seventeen years old, he played for the Brazilian team in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Brazil won the match with Sweden five goals to two (5‐2). Pelé got two of these goals, and Brazil won the World Cup for the first time. Pelé played for Brazil, too, when they won the World Cup in Chile in 1962 and in Mexico in 1970. He is the only football player to win three World Cups. November 19, 1969, was a very important day for Pelé. There were 80,000 people in the stadium watching him play for Santos. They wanted to see him get his 1,000th goal. When he got the goal, he took off his famous number 10 shirt and put on a number 1,000 shirt. In all his 1,363 football matches, Pelé got 1,281 goals. That’s nearly one goal in every match! Pelé helped to stop a war for a time, too. In 1967 he played a football match in Lagos, in Nigeria. At that time there was a war in Nigeria, but the war stopped for 48 hours for everybody to watch Pelé playing football. Pelé stopped playing professional football in Brazil in 1974. But today – all this time later — many people remember him and think he is one of the truly great footballers of all time. He called football ‘the beautiful game’ and he played truly beautiful football.