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1. CONTEXT
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Wimbledon
Listening Questions 1
1. How much did the Wimbledon winners receive in prize money in 2017?
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2. Who won the men’s title in 2016?

2. QUESTIONS.
3. Going into 2017, how many titles had the Williams sisters won in total?
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4. Who did Federer share a record with in 2017 and how many Wimbledonchampionships had they each won?
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5. How many times did Martina Navratilova win Wimbledon in a row?
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Listening Questions 2

3. LISTEN

1. How many of Steffi Graf’s 22 Grand Slam titles came at Wimbledon?
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2. What did Serena Williams achieve by winning the 2017 Australian Open?
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3. What did Rafael Nadal win in June 2017 and many Grand Slams did thatgive him at the time?
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4. Prior to Wimbledon 2017, who had won the most Grand Slam titles for men
and how many did he have?
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5. What is Hawk-Eye and which of the four Grand Slams first used it?
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1. How do you feel about the ‘bukatsu’ culture in Japan and what areits benefits?
2. How has technology influenced and changed various sports?

4. CHECK ANSWERS

TRANSCRIPT 1
The 2017 edition of Wimbledon started on Monday, July 3rd and ended on Sunday, July 16th.
Wimbledon is one of tennis’ four Grand Slams and the only one that’s played on grass. The
other three are the Australian, French, and US Opens. Wimbledon’s very first tournament washeld in 1877. Both the 2017 men’s and women’s winners received 2.2 million British pounds inprize money.

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In 2016, Andy Murray won the men’s title while Serena Williams won the women’s. For Murraythis was his second championship and for Serena it was her seventh. The victory put her two
ahead of her older sister, Venus.

5. CHECK VOCABULARY
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In what is known as the Open era, Switzerland’s Roger Federer shared the record for mostWimbledon championships with America’s Pete Sampras at 7 going into Wimbledon 2017.
Federer won 5 titles in a row between 2003 and 2007. Sampras won his last Wimbledon title in2000. As for the women, Martina Navratilova was alone at the top of the list with a total of 9titles, six of which she won in a row starting in 1982.
One of the things Wimbledon is famous for is their rule regarding clothing. There are someexceptions, but basically a player’s clothing and accessories must be white.

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1. The officials had to look at the replay several times to __________ whether
the player had caught the ball.
2. Jane finished __________ her brother in this year’s race.
3. Smartphones have __________ the way we do business.
4. Last week I had the same thing for lunch 3 days __________.
5. Everyone must submit their reports by 12:00pm. There will be no _______.

7. SHADOWING

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Another former Wimbledon champion is Steffi Graf. Graf, who was born in what was then West
Germany, won the tournament a total of 7 times, her first victory coming in 1988 and her last
one in 1996. Over the course of her great career she won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. InJanuary 2017, Serena Williams moved one Grand Slam singles title ahead of Graf to become
the second most successful player of all time, when she won the Australian Open.
In June 2017, Rafael Nadal won his 10th French Open in Paris. Nadal has won all four Grand
Slam tournaments including two at Wimbledon (2008 and 2010). His victory in Paris was his
15th Grand Slam singles title and put him second overall, 1 ahead of Sampras and 3 behindFederer.

55And finally, technology has revolutionized many sports, including tennis. One very interesting
example is the technology that is used to determine whether a ball landed in or out when aplayer challenges a call. Wimbledon used the system called Hawk-Eye that was developed by
Hawk-Eye Innovations. In 2006, the U.S. Open was the first Grand Slam tournament to use
Hawk-Eye.