Miguel's text on FIFA World Cup

FIFA WORLD CUP  

 The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of World War II.

  The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month – this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s). The World Cup is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 final.

  The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; Germany with four titles; Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title each.  

The World Cup is among the world's most widely viewed sporting events; an estimated 715.1 milllion  people watched the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany.  

The most recent World Cup was held in Brasil in 2014. The next World Cup will be hosted in Russia in 2018

   

 Questions :  

1-TRUE AND FALSE 

 a) There are 32 teams playing the World Cup. 

  b) The tournament takes place every four years.  

  2-OPEN QUESTION

a) How many world cup has Germany won?

b) What is the meaning of FIFA?

 3-SYNONYMS

a)Tournament (p.1): 

b)Contest (p.2): 

c)Celebrated (p.3): 

d)Interval (p. 2):