We're starting the year with a kick on the theme of football! The novel we'll be reading and exploring in class will be 'Bend It Like Beckham' by Narinder Dharmi. Of course most people think of a film not a book and of course we'll be watching the film too.
So, now it's your turn to kick of your year with your views on football, girls playing it and the idea of sport and gender, whether certain sports are more male or more female. What do you think about this issue? Do some sports require personality types or characteristics that are generally more associated with one gender than another? Or is this idea 'red herring' that could be called 'sexist' and in fact it is the case that either gender could equally well display any of the diversity human characteristics that exist? Post your views on this now!
Then visit Sport at the British Council learnenglish site:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-sport-home-page-for-navigation.htm