USB vs MCA: A Match With Different Goals
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USM Biskra will play MC Alger in a football match. People call this team USB. People call the other team MCA.
The two teams want different things from this game. This is called a duel with different goals.
MC Alger wants to win. The team wants to go up the table. The table shows which teams play well.
MC Alger wants to reach the podium. The podium is for the top teams in the league.
To do this, MC Alger must win in Biskra. This will not be easy. Every match in the league is hard.
MC Alger also wants to play well after games in other competitions. A competition is a group of games between teams.
The team wants to keep winning. They want to do well at home and away from home.
This match is important for MC Alger. It is a big step for their season.
Vocabulary15 words
- duel
- a contest between two people or teams
- table
- a list that shows how good each team is
- podium
- the top places in a competition
- competitions
- games or contests between teams
- league
- a group of teams that play against each other
- home
- a team's own stadium
- away
- playing in another team's stadium
- season
- the time when a sport is played each year
- match
- a game between two teams
- win
- to be the best in a game
- football
- a sport played with a ball and two teams
- top
- the best or highest place
- stadium
- a place where sports games happen
- score
- the number of points a team gets
- national
- about the whole country
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1. USM Biskra 2. To move up the table 3. The top places in the league
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USM Biskra will play _____ Alger in a football match.
The two teams want different things from this _____.
This is called a duel with different _____.
MC Alger wants to go up the _____.
MC Alger wants to reach the _____.
To do this, MC Alger must _____ in Biskra.
Every match in the _____ is hard.
MC Alger wants to play well after games in other _____.
The team wants to keep _____.
This match is important for MC Alger's _____.
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