Student’s worksheet
Cricket
Activity 1 Reading skills
Objective: Understanding the rules of cricket through reading
a) After Reading the text below label the objects in the drawings
Text
Cricket is a sport played by two teams of eleven players on an oval-shaped field. In the
middle of the field is what is known as the pitch. The pitch is a hard, flat strip of grassy
earth around 18 metres long with a set of stumps at each end. The stumps are three sticks
of equal size around 90 centimetres high with 5 centimetres separating them. The bails
(small pieces of wood) are balanced on top of the stumps. Teams take turns at batting. After
tossing a coin, the batting team starts with two batsmen on the pitch at the same time, both
at different ends. The batting team tries to score by getting runs or hitting the ball over the
boundaries while the fielding team works to get the batsmen out. There are different ways of
doing this:
when the wicket keeper breaks the stumps
when a fielder catches the ball before it hits the ground after being batted
when the batsman is hit in the leg in front of the stumps
when the ball breaks the wickets
The winner is the team that scores more runs at the end of the game
Vocabulary
Oval-shaped: Form similar to an egg
Pitch: Rectangular zone
Flat strip of grassy earth: Hard surface of
grass
Stumps: Wooden sticks
Bails: Little wooden sticks
Wicket keeper: The player behind the
wickets
Fielders: players who try to get the ball after
the batting
Tossing a coin: To draw who starts batting
Boundaries: limits of a field
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Bowling team
The Cricket Field
Batting team
b) After Reading the text above order chronologically the following events in a cricket match.
a) Batting
b) Fielding (action of receiving a ball)
c) Running
d) Tossing a coin
e) Passing
f) Electing a captain
g) Choosing to field or bat
h) Bowling
i) Breaking the wickets
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Activity 2 Writing skills
Objective: To make clear the aims of cricket
Write clear and concise ideas about the aim of cricket. (The general aim or goal and the aim
for batting and fielding teams)
The general aim of the game is.....
The aim of the defenders is to...
The aim of the attackers is to....
Activity 3 Listening skills
Objective: Listening comprehension
After listening to the definitions one by one, write the number to the word it corresponds
Fielding
Bails
Wickets
Bowling
Batting
Catching
Scoring
Boundaries
Activity 4 Writing skills
Objective: To make clear the cricket skills
Write which are the complex skills we need to learn to play a cricket match?
The complex cricket Skills are ……………., …………………, …………………., and
………………………. Some simple skills used in cricket are ……………………………………..
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Activity 5 Warm up
Objective: To make an easy warm up for cricket
Write warm up activities in chronological order. Start with general exercises and develop to
more specific ones.
a) General exercises: 12-
a) Specific exercises: 123-
Cricket glossary
BAILS – Wooden crosspieces that sit on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
BOUNDARY – The perimeter of a cricket field, marked by an obvious fence or marker.
CLEAN BOWLED – When a batter is beaten by a ball and the stumps are broken.
CREASE – White lines that mark the pitch.
HIT WICKET – To strike and subsequently break the stumps with the bat resulting in the batter’s dismissal.
INNINGS – The period of time spent batting by a team or individual.
LEG BEFORE WICKET – If the ball hits the batsman without first hitting the bat, but would have hit the wicket
if the batsman was not there.
NO-BALL – An unfair rolled ball or the bowler stepped the crease.
NON STRIKER – A term used to describe the batter waiting at the bowler’s end.
RUN – The method of scoring during a game of cricket. Also a single unit of score.
RUN OUT – A way of being out. If either batsman is attempting to take a run, or to return to his crease after an
aborted run, and a fielder breaks that batsman's wicket with the ball while he is out of the crease.
STRIKE (STRIKER) – The name given to the batter who is facing the bowler. To be "on strike".
STUMPS – Wooden uprights of which there are three on which the bails are balanced to form the wicket.
TEST – A cricket match of International standard scheduled to last for 5 days.
WICKET – The collective term for 3 stumps and 2 bails at either end of the pitch.
WICKET KEEPER – Player who wears fielding gloves and stands behind the batter’s wicket ready to catch
the ball if the batter misses it.
WIDE – A ball that a batter cannot reach.
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Some Lacrosse facts
Lacrosse originated with the Native Americans of the
United States and Canada, mainly among the Huron
and Iroquois often as a part of religious ritual in order
to resolve conflicts, heal the sick and prepare for war.
Legend tells of games with more than 1000 players
from different tribes taking turns to play. It could be
played on a field many miles in length and width;
sometimes the game could last several days. Early
lacrosse balls were made of deerskin, clay, stone, and
sometimes wood. Lacrosse played a significant role in
the community and religious life of tribes across the
continent for many years.
Lacrosse may have developed as early as the 12th century
and since then it has undergone many modifications.
The French Jesuit missionary, Jean de Brébeuf, saw Iroquois
tribesmen play it in 1637 and he was the first European to
write about the game. He called it lacrosse.
Nowadays the sport has gained increasing visibility in the
media, with a growth of college, high school, and youth
programmes throughout the country.
The owners of Canadian hockey arenas invented a reduced
version of the game, called box lacrosse, it is an indoor
version of the game played by teams of six players. A match
consists of four fifteen-minute quarters. The goals in box
lacrosse are the same goals that in ice hockey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse
Activity 1 Reading/Writing skills
Objective: Understanding the rules of lacrosse
Fill in the gaps using information from the Ppt and the text above.
Text
The sport of lacrosse comes from a ritual game played by…………………………………….
Box lacrosse is a ……………………….. version of field lacrosse. Teams have ……….players.
The game is four parts of ……………. minutes. The game is played with a kind of stick with a
net at one end called …………….. Players have to take control of the ball and pass it in order
to try to …………… in the opponent’s goal. It is a fast and aggressive game where the
……………… with the ball carrier is permitted. The winner is the team that gets more goals by
the end of the match.
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Lacrosse field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse
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Activity 2 Warm up
Objective: To make a easy warm up for lacrosse
Write warm up activities in chronological order. Start with general exercises and develop to
more specific ones.
a) General exercises: 12-
a) Specific exercises: 123-
Final activity Spider Diagram
Objective: Summarize the whole content of the units.
Draw the spider diagram.
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Write below 3 rules of cricket:
1. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Write below 3 rules of lacrosse:
1. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
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