Brazil Players Laugh During Indigenous Welcome Ceremony in Australia
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Brazil's football team traveled to Australia for a friendly match.
Before the game, there was a special indigenous ceremony. Indigenous people are the first people of a country.
This ceremony is a ritual. A ritual is a special action that people do for tradition.
Some Brazilian players started to laugh during the ceremony. This made a bad impression, or a brutta figura in Italian.
The match was Australia against Brazil. This is a friendly match, a game that is not part of a big competition.
Coach Carlo Ancelotti chose the team. He picked four special attacking players. People called this group a "fantastic quartet."
The match happened after the World Cup. This is the biggest football competition in the world.
People can watch the game on TV or online, using streaming. Streaming means watching video on the internet.
Vocabulary15 words
- indigenous
- the first people who lived in a place
- ritual
- a special action people do for tradition
- brutta figura
- a bad impression; looking bad in front of others
- friendly match
- a game that is just for practice, not a big competition
- Ancelotti
- the coach of the Brazil team
- World Cup
- the biggest football competition in the world
- streaming
- watching video on the internet
- quartet
- a group of four people
- coach
- the person who leads and trains a sports team
- tradition
- something people do because it is old and important to them
- impression
- what people think about something after they see it
- ceremony
- a special event with actions for an important moment
- attacking
- trying to score goals in football
- competition
- a contest between teams or people
- team
- a group of players who play together
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1. Some Brazil players laughed 2. Ancelotti 3. After the World Cup
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Brazil's football team traveled to _____ for a friendly match.
Before the game, there was a special _____ ceremony.
This ceremony is a _____.
Some Brazilian players started to _____ during the ceremony.
This made a bad impression, or a _____ in Italian.
The match was Australia against _____.
Coach Carlo _____ chose the team.
He picked four special attacking players, a "fantastic _____."
The match happened after the _____.
People can watch the game on TV or using _____.
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