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Olympic Games Moderns

LESSON 4

Activity 11. In pairs. Look at the video "Modern Olympics", the transcription is under the activities.

Activity 12. Talk about the video with your classmate (curiosities and interesting things).

Activity 13. Now press button "Activity 13". Crossword about Sports, you have word clue to guess the word.

Activity 14. Now press button "Test". Kahoot. This test we are going to do all the class at the same time.

Extra Activity. Special Olympic.

Modern Olympics

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the modern olympic games began as a
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dream of the french romantic historian
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and educator pierre de coubertin
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inspired by the ancient greek olympics
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and the peace and shared bond of
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athleticism and sportsmanship that they
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fostered Coubertin aim to create a more
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modern and secular version of the games
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coubertin succeeded in creating the
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International Olympic Committee in 1894
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and with it held the first modern
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Olympic Games two years later in 1896
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they were first held in their ancestral
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home of Greece and were open to amateur
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athletes from around the world 13
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countries participated in the first game
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the Greeks were eager to host this kind
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of spectacle that celebrated a national
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cultural legacy the 19th century site
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surge of nationalism and the creation of
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many new nation states in Europe
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including newly independent Greece the
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desire to prove their dominance in every
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outlet from imperial conquest to harold
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and cultural accomplishments naturally
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found a place in international sport
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athletic success at a new international
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event was an opportunity for greece to
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prove its prestige to the rest of europe
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yet it was in dire financial trouble so
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the Olympic organizers and the
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government alike appealed to the Greek
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people's sense of national pride to help
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fund the games in 1936 Nazi Germany was
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given the chance to hold the Olympics
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hesitant at first Hitler was persuaded
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by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
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to use the games as an opportunity for
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propaganda both inside and outside of
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Germany the German government put large
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amounts of resources into making their
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Olympics a notable event including
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financing a new stadium for the games
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the most famous example to come for this
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effort was lean eerie French das
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critically acclaimed film olympia the
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film romanticized the berlin olympics
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the idea of the perfect athlete and
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emphasized the perception of Aryan
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supremacy that Nazi ideology
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after World War two the USSR decided to
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branch out on the global stage in
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multiple ways the Cold War was beginning
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to command the attention of the
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international community and the
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communist bloc saw the Olympic victories
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as a way to prove the superiority of
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communism to the West East Germany in
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particular was so dedicated to achieving
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Olympic success that it forced many of
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its athletes to take
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performance-enhancing drugs in order to
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win as a result the small communist
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country consistently one large number of
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medals behind only the US and the Soviet
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Union governments were not the only
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actors invested in Olympic politics in a
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more dramatic show of Cold War tensions
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during the nineteen fifty-six Melbourne
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Olympics a fight broke out between the
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Soviet and Hungarian water polo teams
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over the Soviet repression of the
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hungarian revolution in the united
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states the government and the Olympic
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Committee were starting to find that
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something needed to be done about the
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Olympic superiorities of the communist
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bloc particularly in women's events the
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United States was lagging behind the
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medal count this was a large factor and
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why the title nine law was passed in
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1972 giving female students the same
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access to sports and sports resources as
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men after the Cold War ended and the
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former communist bloc was not as much of
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a contender for medals other countries
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saw the Olympics as an opportunity to
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show the world their emerging power and
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prestige the most notable example of
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this can be seen in china in the 2008
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beijing olympics the chinese
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meticulously put an enormous amount of
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resources and effort in making beijing
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worthy of an impressive olympic event to
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prove its Nationals ideas this even
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meant raising neighborhoods and
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restricting industry to reduce pollution
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yet the opening ceremonies are largely
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hailed as the most impressive yet taking
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three years to perfect and China hauled
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in a record 100 Meadows up 63 metals
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from the previous games
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despite the individual achievements of
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athletes and the initial intention of
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the Olympic Games the legacy of the
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Olympics has given countries an
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opportunity to compete with each other
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and I hire more political level and
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showcase to the world the abilities of
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their people as a whole represented
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through their athletes nationalism has
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consistently pervade the Olympic Games
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and continues to do so into a more
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globalized post-cold war world
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