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BBC Learning English 

Words in the News  

27 June 2012 

South Africa's female footballers 

Transcript: 

In training for the Olympics.  

South Africa's women's football team is the first in the country's history to 

qualify for the games.  

Although the team is dreaming of winning gold, their debut is about more than 

the glory alone. 

Women's football is not yet professional in South Africa, so the team wants to 

raise the profile of the sport and inspire more young female athletes. 

Vocabulary: 

In training for  

Practising for  

to qualify for 

to get to the final stage of a competition 

glory 

great achievement, high honour 

professional 

something people are paid to do 

to raise the profile of 

to increase awareness of  

Watch the video online:    

South Africa's female footballers  http://bbc.in/LsJDlg 

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from 

BBC news reports.  

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly. 

training / to qualify for / glory / professional / to raise the profile of 

1. All eyes may be on the England football team as they battle for Euro 2012 

success, but a more mechanical squad from Devon is also bidding for ________. 

2. Ugandan track event athletes have blamed their failure ________________ 

the Olympics on the inferior track they were forced to use for time trials. 

3. Although a former _________ diver, it was his first time under water in more 

than a decade and his morale was high after the 100 hours were up, organisers 

said. 

4. "We can look forward to welcoming many elite Olympians and Paralympians to 

these shores," she said. "This will help ______________________ the sports 

and facilities we have on offer and I hope will inspire our local athletes of 

tomorrow." 

5. Uefa has confirmed there were "isolated incidents of racist chanting" aimed at 

Netherlands players during an open _____________ session for Euro 2012. 

Answers:  

1. All eyes may be on the England football team as they battle for Euro 2012 

success, but a more mechanical squad from Devon is also bidding for glory. 

Source:  Plymouth University robot footballers bid for success 

2. Ugandan track event athletes have blamed their failure to qualify for the 

Olympics on the inferior track they were forced to use for time trials. 

Source:  Uganda athletes anger at Happy Science Olympic mix-up    

3. Although a former professional diver, it was his first time under water in 

more than a decade and his morale was high after the 100 hours were up, 

organisers said. 

Source:  Essex ex-Royal Engineer Mark Colman breaks underwater record 

4. "We can look forward to welcoming many elite Olympians and Paralympians to 

these shores," she said. "This will help to raise the profile of the sports and 

facilities we have on offer and I hope will inspire our local athletes of tomorrow." 

Source:  Olympic torch: Comedian Kielty carries torch in hometown 

5. Uefa has confirmed there were "isolated incidents of racist chanting" aimed at 

Netherlands players during an open training session for Euro 2012. 

Source:  Euro 2012: Uefa confirms 'isolated racist chanting' towards Dutch