Antoine Dupont: "This Competition Feels Different"
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Antoine Dupont plays rugby for France. People call the team Les Bleus. He is the captain of the team.
France will play a game against Fiji. This game is part of a big rugby competition between nations.
Dupont said this competition feels different. He said it has a different saveur, which means 'flavor' or 'feeling'.
The French team is also thinking about sad news. The team is feeling deuil, which means 'grief'. This is a hard time for them.
The players want to play well for their team and their country. They remember what happened, and they will not forget it.
France wants to do well in this competition. The game against Fiji is an important match for them.
Vocabulary15 words
- captain
- the leader of a sports team
- competition
- a contest between teams or people
- saveur
- a special feeling about something; like a flavor
- deuil
- a sad feeling after a loss; grief
- nation
- a country and its people
- match
- a sports game between two teams
- rugby
- a sport played with an oval ball
- team
- a group of people who play sport together
- France
- a country in Europe
- Fiji
- a country made of islands in the Pacific Ocean
- player
- a person who plays a sport
- important
- having great value or meaning
- feeling
- an emotion you have inside
- country
- a nation with its own government
- remember
- to keep something in your mind
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1. A French rugby captain 2. Fiji 3. False
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Antoine Dupont plays rugby for _____. People call the team Les Bleus. He is the _____ of the team.
France will play a game against _____. This game is part of a big rugby _____ between nations.
Dupont said this competition feels _____. He said it has a different _____.
The French team is also thinking about sad news. The team is feeling _____, which means grief.
The players want to play well for their team and their _____. They remember what happened, and they will not forget it.
France wants to do well in this competition. The game against Fiji is an _____ match for them.
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