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    1) A study of over 100,000 football matches in Europe found that referees are more likely to penalize taller players when they tackle shorter opponents. 2) Researchers also tested this idea on football fans who tended to believe the smaller player would be the victim in situations where the taller player tackled them. 3) One of the researchers, Steffen Giessner, notes that in unclear situations referees have to make fast decisions, and assumptions about player size could influence these calls. However, the effect of height on refereeing decisions requires more analysis.

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    1) A study of over 100,000 football matches in Europe found that referees are more likely to penalize taller players when they tackle shorter opponents. 2) Researchers also tested this idea on football fans who tended to believe the smaller player would be the victim in situations where the taller player tackled them. 3) One of the researchers, Steffen Giessner, notes that in unclear situations referees have to make fast decisions, and assumptions about player size could influence these calls. However, the effect of height on refereeing decisions requires more analysis.

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    1) A study of over 100,000 football matches in Europe found that referees are more likely to penalize taller players when they tackle shorter opponents. 2) Researchers also tested this idea on football fans who tended to believe the smaller player would be the victim in situations where the taller player tackled them. 3) One of the researchers, Steffen Giessner, notes that in unclear situations referees have to make fast decisions, and assumptions about player size could influence these calls. However, the effect of height on refereeing decisions requires more analysis.

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    News-based English language activities from the global newspaper

    March 2010
    Level ≥ Lower intermediate
    Style ≥ Lesson plan
    Welcome to the Guardian Weekly’s special news-based materials to support learners and teachers of English.
    Each month, the Guardian Weekly newspaper selects topical news articles that can be used to practise English
    language skills. The materials are graded for two levels: advanced and lower intermediate. These worksheets
    can be downloaded free from guardianweekly.co.uk/learningenglish/. You can also find more advice for
    teachers and learners from the Guardian Weekly’s Learning English section on the site.

    Standing tall brings trouble for footballers


    Materials prepared by Janet Hardy-Gould

    Instructions
    Lesson focus: reading, roleplay
    Materials sheet: copies of the article and photograph
    Time: 55 minutes

    1 Ask students: What will happen in South Africa this June? a [ ] When there are tackles, referees often penalise
    Football World Cup. Who won the cup last time? Italy. Who smaller players.
    might win this time? Why? 3 mins b [ ] Peter Crouch might be the tallest player in the
    2010 World Cup.
    2 Go through football vocabulary from the article. Draw a c [ ] The researchers studied over 100,000 European
    football pitch on the board. Ask a student to come to the matches.
    front. Read out the words below one by one. The class d [ ] The researchers tested their ideas with some
    must tell the student where to write the words on the football fans.
    pitch; some words can also be illustrated. For example, e [ ] The fans thought that the smaller footballers
    the student writes “manager” at the side of the pitch would be victims.
    and draws a figure on a bench. Vocabulary: manager, f [ ] Steffen Giessner thinks that referees often make
    footballer/player, ball, referee, team, striker, midfield slow decisions.
    footballer, defence/defender. 8 mins g [ ] Taller strikers do the most fouls.
    Answers: a F smaller – taller b T c F European matches
    3 Put the class into pairs with dictionaries to find the – fouls d T e T f F slow – fast g F taller strikers – smaller
    meaning of tackle and foul. They can then find three midfield players
    more football-related words to add to the board. 6 mins
    6 Focus students back on the photo of Peter Crouch
    4 Tell students they are going to read about research and the referee. Ask them to look carefully at the body
    into football. It is study about referees and how they language. As a class decide: where they are, what has
    penalise players. Explain the words in italics. Ask: Do you just happened, how Crouch feels, how the referee feels.
    know players who are often penalised? Why are these Ask students to write an eight-line dialogue between
    particular players penalised? 4 mins the referee and Crouch including the following words:
    5 Write up these sentences. Students read the article and decision, referee, tackle, foul, tall, victim, aggressor.
    decide if sentences are true or false. They must correct Brainstorm possible opening lines as a class. Students
    the false ones. Ask students: Do you think the research write their dialogues in pairs. Some students act out their
    sounds true? Why/Why not? 14 mins dialogues to the class. 20 mins
    News-based English language activities from the global newspaper

    March 2010

    Materials sheet Article: Standing tall brings


    trouble for footballers
    1 As the managers of national football teams begin to
    choose their players for this summer’s World Cup, most
    of them won’t be listening to the ideas of social psycholo-
    gists. Perhaps they should.

    2 Research has shown that football referees are more likely


    to penalise taller players when they tackle smaller oppo-
    nents. This is bad news for England striker Peter Crouch
    who at 2m in height could be the tallest footballer in the
    World Cup.
    3 A study of more than 100,000 fouls in domestic, Euro-
    pean and international football showed some interesting
    results. The bigger the height difference between the two
    players then the more chance the referee will decide in
    favour of the shorter one.

    4 Academics from Rotterdam school of management in the


    Netherlands also tested their ideas by asking football fans
    to look at images of two players running towards a ball.

    Ref’s view ... England’s Peter Crouch in trouble Owen Humphreys/PA


    5 When asked which of the footballers would end up on
    the ground more people thought that the smaller player
    Student tasks would be the victim and the taller one the aggressor.

    1 Football vocabulary: 6 “You will always get moments in a game when the situ-
    manager footballer/player ball referee team ation isn’t very clear and the referee has got to make a
    striker midfield footballer defence/defender fast decision. This is where assumptions could influence
    them,” said Steffen Giessner, one of the authors of the re-
    2 Read the article and decide if these sentences are true port. “There is an effect with height, but we can’t say how
    or false. strong it is.”
    a When there are tackles, referees often penalise
    smaller players.
    7 The researchers thought that their results might be due
    b Peter Crouch might be the tallest player in the
    to taller footballers often playing in defence, where fouls
    2010 World Cup.
    might be more common. But a closer look at their data
    c The researchers studied over 100,000 European
    revealed that the largest number of fouls were done by
    matches.
    smaller midfield footballers against other players in the
    d The researchers tested their ideas with some
    same position.
    football fans.
    e The fans thought that the smaller footballers
    would be victims. 8 There is another explanation: that taller players really are
    f Steffen Giessner thinks that referees often make more aggressive. The only way to decide would be to film
    slow decisions. many matches and analyse the refereeing decisions.
    g Taller strikers do the most fouls.
    Original article by Peter Walker, rewritten by Janet
    Hardy-Gould

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