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__ ** Week 4 ** __

__ **Task** __

Create an imaginative story based around the London Olympic Games. Your story must include a New Zealand athlete, a lost piece of sporting equipment and a gold medal for New Zealand.

 M   ahe Drysdale is preparing to "Go for gold" for New Zealand in the Men's Single Sculls, with his amazing talent with rowing. He is gearing up in his wet suit, glasses and wait where is it, its not there, his lucky designer made, perfect fit, one of a kind, tailor made, caved in his hand grip shape paddles. He cant find them any where, no one has seen them around. What is he going to do he always wins with them. "10 minutes to go" says the event manager. Mahe Drysdale is even more nervous now. He is looking every where, trying to find them. "5 minutes to go" he runs over to his van and grabs some spear emergency paddles and runs back to the starting line. He is freaking out because he has not trained with these paddles, he never even thought that he would have to use them. He jumps into his rowing boat and tries to get use to the grip of the paddles. You can see he does not like them and feels uncomfortable. The buzzer goes and they are off. He hasn't started off good he is right at the back. Mahe is trying his best to catch up but it just isn't working. He stays at the back until the last 1km. Mahe pushes himself everyone is getting tired and Hahe pushes through, he is coming 4th now. Its the last 500m, he grabs hold of the paddles hard and speeds up. Mahe goes from 4th to 3rd to 2nd. Ist just him and a dude from Germany they both push as hard as they can. They are neck and neck, pushing each other. The German dude is slowing down and Mahe Drysdale uses the last bit of his energy. The German guy drops so far back as 4th place and Mahe Drysdale is so far in front of everyone he cant believe it. He crosses the finish and the second place rower comes in 1minute latter. Mahe Drysdale has just won the 2012 Men's Single Sculls Gold Medal!!

__ ** Week 3 ** __

__ **Task** __

Olympic Games Article:


 * Choose ONE sport that you are interested in and FIND a news article relating to that sport. Once you have done that, complete the following activities: **

1. Give the article a new HEADLINE

2. Rewrite the article in your own words

3. Find an image that relates to the article. [|Artical] 1. Big strokes to Gold For NZ. 2. Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan have won gold for New Zealand. They struggled coming fourth for a while until they hit coming through and winning it. 3.

__ ** Week 2 ** __

__ **Task** __

__ The Olympic Oath __

At the start of each Olympics, every athlete promises to play fairly and obey all of the Olympic rules. One athlete from the host country takes his oath at the opening ceremony on behalf of all athletes.


 * " In the name of all the competitors, I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams" **

I (Name) commit to fair play, co-operation and sportsmanship in The Olympic games. I shall commit to participation and I will try to exceed in everything I do. I shall respect all other competitors and congratulate them on their talents.

__ ** Week 1 ** __

__ **Task 1:** __ Select one New Zealand athlete going to the Olympic games and write a short biography about them. You could include personal information or concentrate on their sporting achievements. Include a photo.

__ **Task 2:** __
 * The Olympic Anthem **

Symbolism is one of the strong components expressed within the Olympic Games. The Greeks appreciated and honoured poets and their descriptive language as part of the Olympic spirit.

The "Olympic Hymn" of the modern era was written by Greeks Costis Palamis and Spiros Samaras. It was translated into French, and was used at the first Modern Olmpic Games held in Athens in 1896. Since 1960, it has been used at the Opening Ceremonies of each Olympic Games.

The hymn is played or sung during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Originally written in Greek, it has been "freely" translated into other languages and below is the main version.


 * Your task is to write a new Olympic anthem for the 2012 Olympic Games **



Full name: Alexander Mahe Owens Drysdale

Gender: Male

Height: 6'6" (199 cm)

Weight: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">100 kg

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Born: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">November 19, 1978 (Age 33) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Country: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">New Zealand <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">**Sport:** Rowing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Three-time defending world champion in the single sculls. He set the world record with a time of 6 minutes, 35.40 seconds in the single sculls at the 2006 World Championships. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> He won many Olympic Medals, these are them:
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2005 World Championships – Gold ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2006 World Championships – Gold ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2007 World Championships – Gold ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2008 Olympic Games – Bronze ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2009 World Championships – Gold ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2010 World Championships – Silver ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2011 World Championships – Gold ===

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">As Countries, as Nations <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">All around the world, no matter where you are <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Coming together, in many __Event__

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Exceeding limits, Flying <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Doing greater things then possible <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Just like in Olympia, many years ago <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Competing for Countries, to be the best

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Fighting to be the best <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Emotional time, showing pride <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Going Swifter, Higher, Faster! <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">This is the Olympic Games!

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