Improving athletics teaching in schools - Module 9

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Expert Proficiency Resource Book, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

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The Elevating Athletics Fund is an (0) ___ sponsored by AVIVA, a major UK financial institution. It aims to ensure that all children have a positive first experience of athletics, and hopes to make participation in a range of sports both attractive and rewarding to all children. The fund was launched against the (1) ___ of research that revealed that 52 percent of teachers felt inadequately prepared to teach basic athletics skills. The (2) ___ on which the work of the fund is based is that the fundamental skills of athletics, (3) ___ running, jumping and throwing, (4) ___ a good performance in many other sports and so should be taught as enabling skills before a child goes on to sport-specific training. The fund is designed to make an (5) ___ at grassroots level and so was set up with a (6) ___ to providing practical training and support for every single sports teacher in the UK. In doing so, it hopes to raise the (7) ___ of athletics teaching in schools, and thereby bring sporting success within the (8) ___ of a much wider cross-section of the population.

Improving athletics teaching in schools

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