Lesson 4

Vocabulary

1. Choose the correct words.

1. There were more than 11,000 competitiors / staff at the Rio Olympics, but only a few of them won medals.

2. Tarek was an organiser / spectator of the concert. He asked important musicans to play at it.

3. Our school has a chess pandemic / tournament every year. A lot of people want to enter.

4. there are only eight teams left, so this is the finals / quarter-finals.

5. The tall player is incredible / impossible. He wins all his matches easily.

6. I would like to thank all of the spectators / staff for working so hard in the hotel today.

7. There were nearly 80,000 viewers / spectators in the stadium, and they all enjoyed the sports.

2. Match the words that have a similar meaning. then find their opposites and circle them.

3. Look at the words in bold in the text. Replace each one with a word from the box that has a similar meaning.

a fantastic: an incredible.

contest: tournament.

winners: champions.

players: competitors.

people: spectators.