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Physical Education KS3 / GCSE: Speaking Sport

Famous sports stars share their ion for learning another language. Contributors include Jonny Wilkinson, Gary Lineker, sco Molinari and the GB diving team.

These clips are taken from the BBC series Speaking Sport.

Suitable for: PE and Modern Foreign Languages at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland or 4th Level in Scotland.

Watch a training session with Dennis Pugh and sco Molinari and learn some Italian.

Italian vocabulary and pronunciation with sco Molinari

Watch the Olympic divers Tonia Couch and Tom Daley train with their Chinese coach Li Peng.

Mandarin vocabulary and pronunciation with Tonia Couch

Olympic windsurfer Bryony Shaw talks about her sport, her language skills and experiences of training in Spain.

The languages of Olympic windsurfing

 

 

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