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English for Communication | Alvin Bersamin

REVIEW

A. Find all the words in the story associated with sport.

Read the story of a young man “Tiger Wood.”

The year of the Tiger

It was the last day of U.S Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

As the slim, young man walked up to the eighteenth hole he took up
his baseball cap and wave to the crowd. A few minutes later the ball fell into
the hole and the crowd went wild. Tiger Woods was the new champion.

At 21 Tiger was the youngest ever champion, and won with the best
ever score. He was also the first black golfer to win a major tournament.
Everybody wanted to know him. He appeared on several TV show. The
President of the United States, Bill Clinton, called him up and the sports
company. Nike, offered him a contract for $40 million.

Tiger (his real name is Eldrick) Woods was born on 30 of December
th
1975 in Cypress, California. His mother, Kultilda, was from Thailand. His
father, Earl, was an American army officer and keen golfer. As a baby Tiger
watched his father, and he started to play golf as soon as he was old enough.
When he was three years old he was already a very good player, and he
soon started to win tournament. In 1991 he became the youngest ever Junior
champion. In November 1996 he became a professional, and less than six
months later he beat the best players in the world to win the US Masters.

Some people think that Tiger is going to be even better in the future.
“He’s going to win more tournaments, of course,” says golf commentator,
Jeff Binns. “But Tiger Woods is more important than that. He hits the ball
harder and further than anyone else. He's young and good-looking too, so
millions of kids are going to take up golf now, and they’re all going to want
to play like the Tiger.

(Adapted from Life lines, elementary, Tom Hutchinson, p.93)

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