Lens Starts Hazard and Caqueret in Champions League Game Against Como
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Lens is a football team from France.
Lens plays Como today in the Champions League.
Thorgan Hazard starts the game for Lens.
Maxence Caqueret also starts the game.
Lens has not played well lately.
Some fans are not happy with the team.
Lens wants to win and play better.
The team hopes to get a good result against Como.
This game is important for Lens.
Lens wants to show good football again.
Vocabulary15 words
- Champions League
- a big football competition in Europe
- lineup
- the players who start a game
- starts
- plays from the beginning of the game
- form
- how well a team plays recently
- fans
- people who support a team
- result
- the score at the end of a game
- team
- a group of players
- match
- a game between two teams
- club
- a sports organization, like Lens
- win
- to be better than the other team
- player
- a person who plays a sport
- game
- a sports event
- hope
- to want something to happen
- important
- having big meaning
- happy
- feeling good
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Quiz
Answer key
1. Como 2. Thorgan Hazard and Maxence Caqueret 3. Not very well
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Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
Lens is a football team from _____.
Lens plays Como today in the _____ _____.
Thorgan Hazard _____ the game for Lens.
Maxence Caqueret also starts the _____.
Lens has not played well _____.
Some _____ are not happy with the team.
Lens wants to win and play _____.
The team hopes to get a good _____ against Como.
This game is _____ for Lens.
Lens wants to show good football _____.
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