Objective IELTS Advanced Unit 2
Try to agree on the past, present and future trends in the things below. Start with whichever you find easiest or most interesting.
(Local/ National) government spending on sports
Attendance at gyms
Commercialism of sports
Corporate sponsorship of sports
Coverage of sports in the news/ in newspapers
Domestic players going to foreign leagues
Domination of leagues by the biggest teams
Foreign players in domestic leagues
Gym fees
Gym membership
Interest in traditional sports
Interest in Western sports
Interest in watching women’s teams who play traditionally male sports
Interest in the private lives of sports people
Internationally important sporting events in this city
Number of spectators in stadiums
Obesity
People competing for your country who don’t have a strong connection to your country
Pressure on youth team players
Public interest in their country or city bidding for big sporting events such as the Olympics
Salaries for sportsmen
Sports on free TV
Sports on paid TV
Sports participation
Sports publications and their popularity
Standard of public sporting facilities
Success of national teams and sportsmen
Success of teams based in this city
The fame of sportsmen
Ticket prices
Transfer fees
TV viewing figures for sports
What forms did you use to talk about the future?
What other future forms are there? What kinds of sporting events could you describe them with?
What tenses would you use to describe these sporting events?
– 2020 Olympics
– 2013 Tokyo Sports Festival
– The next time you play sports or do exercise
– The next time you watch sports
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