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144 Activities Unit 10, exercise 27a Group B Baseball star Dustin Pedroia signed a new six-year contract worth a record $40.5m, which will keep him at the Red Sox until 2014. Pedroia was quoted as saying, “I’m extremely excited – I denitely want to be here a long time.” With that sort of wage, I’m not surprised. It was also reported this week that Manchester City, now the wealthiest football team in the world, oered £129 million for Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillias. And on top of this, they were willing to pay him £11 million a season to play. What with the recent controversy surrounding cricket players joining the Indian Cricket League because of the vast sums of money available and the recent trend of Olympic (amateur) boxers to turn professional, I’m starting to wonder what sport really is about today. Is money in sport out of control? is week saw the beginning of an unpleasant new development in the nancing of sport. Unit 4, exercise 29a Student A Read about the problem and then do 1–4. Your neighbour plays loud music in the evenings. You can’t concentrate when you study or do homework. You can’t hear your TV properly. The problem started a long time ago but is worse now. You made some helpful suggestions, e.g. that your neighbour should wear headphones. A month ago, your neighbour said: “I’m sorry. I’ll turn the music down.” You’ve knocked on your neighbour’s door twice this week to ask him to turn it down, but he didn’t answer. Think about language from the unit you can use to: 1 talk about how long the problem has existed. 2 say how many times something has happened. 3 say if there have been any changes or results. 4 soften what you want to say. Unit 4, exercise 29b Student A Read about the problem and add your own ideas to 2–4. Think about softeners you can use in the conversation. Your neighbour’s unhappy that you and your friends leave your bicycles in the entrance area of the house. 1 It’s a shared area. 2 Your neighbour doesn’t need the space because … 3 You and your friends only put their bikes there when … 4 After your neighbour talked to you, you … Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv