Level: Pre-Intermediate and above

Brief description:

How much do you know about sports and games? This quiz is designed to test students’ knowledge of sports and games, while reviewing the use of question words.

Instructions:

Answer as many questions as you can. Then review the grammar of question words. a) Which of these countries has never won the football World Cup: England, the United States, Uruguay or France?

b) What does the acronym FIFA stand for?

c) How long does an official American football game last?

d) When were the Olympic Games in Beijing, China?

e) How often do the Summer Olympics happen?

f) How many spots are there on a dice?

g) How many spades and clubs are there in a normal pack of cards?

h) What kind of games are PC games?

i) Who is recognized as the ‘most successful human virtual game heroine’?

j) What is the best-selling video game console of all time?

k) Why are online video games addictive?

Quiz Answers:

a) The United States

b) International Federation of Association Football (The letters are actually in the French order, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association)

c) 60 minutes (four quarters of 15 minutes)

d) 2008

e) Every 4 years

f) 21 spots

g) 13 spades and 13 clubs (also 13 hearts and 13 diamonds = 52 cards total)

h) PC games are computer games (PC = Personal Computer)

i) Lara Croft from Tomb Raider was recognized by the Guiness Book of World Records as ‘the most successful human virtual game heroine’

j) The PlayStation 2, with over 150 million consoles sold

k) There is still much debate, read more about this problem: http://tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/education/studying-english-with-tuoi-tre-news/articles/online-game-addiction-a-deadly-habit-1.34537

Grammar:

Review of question words:

Look at the question words in bold in the quiz. Which question word(s) do we use to ask about:

1. A time? _____When_

2. A place? __________

3. A person? __________

4. A period of time? ________

5. A thing? ___________ / __________

6. The class or type of thing? ________

7. The way you do something? _________

8. The number of times you do something? __________

Grammar Answers:

1. when

2. where

3. who

4. how long

5. what (many possible answers) / which (only a few possible answers)

6. what kind

7. how

8. How often

Practice:

Make your own quiz using the question words above. You can make the quiz about sports or games, or about music, or history or another topic. Give your quiz to a friend and test their knowledge!

Glossary:

• Spot (noun): a small, usually round area of colour which is differently coloured or lighter or darker than the surface around it (Điểm, chấm)

• Dice (noun): a small cube (= object with six equal square sides) with a different number of spots on each side, used in games involving chance (Hột xí ngầu)

• Spade (noun): a playing card with one or more black shapes like pointed leaves with short stems printed on it (Quân bích trong bộ bài)

• Club (noun): a playing card showing the black sign with three leaves (Quân chuồn trong bộ bài)

• Pack (noun): a set of playing cards (US: deck of cards = pack of cards) (Bộ bài)

• To recognize (verb): to show official approval or acceptance for someone or something (Công nhận)

• Virtual (adjective): not real; used of things on the Internet or computer (Ảo)

• Heroine (noun): a woman people admire because she has done something brave or good, a female hero (Nữ anh hung)

• Video game console (noun): an electronic device that is designed to play video games with a TV (Thiết bị trò chơi điện tử, máy chơi trò chơi điện tử có màn hình TV)

• Addictive (adjective): describes an activity that you cannot stop doing once you have started (Nghiện)

• Federation (noun): a group of organizations, countries, regions, etc. that have joined together to form a larger organization or government (Liên đoàn)

• Association (noun): a group of people who work together in a single organization for a particular purpose (Hiệp hội)

This material is provided by the Australian Centre for Education and Training (ACET).