Sport injuries

 

Choose one of the following testimonies about the recovery of sport injuries and then, answer the questions below:

 

N°1: SOCCER. The Hit That Ended Briana Scurry’s Soccer Career

 

N°2: SNOWBOARD. The Crash Reel’s Kevin Pearce recalls horror of snowboard crash

 

N°3: BODY BUILDING. Sports Injury Recovery: Distal Bicep Rupture of Sebastian Maclean.

 

N°4: RUGBY. Thom Evans.

 

Questions:

PART A – Research

1.- What is the name of the sports person?

2.- What is the name of the injury?

3.- How and when did it happen?

4.- Did he/she recover? How?

5.- What were the consequences of this injury in his/her career?

 

PART B – Personal case

1.- What is your favorite sport?

2.- What are some common injuries? Make a list of 5 and write a brief description of them.

 

PART C – Written task

Write down a 120-180 story for an international magazine. The story must begin with the following words:

When I felt the blood on my face, I knew that something wrong was going on.