B1 - Baseball Dreams

Baseball Dreams by Lisa Mary Vecchione. B1 | 1000 Headwords | Original

Madison is a young girl with a big dream - to play for her high school baseball team.
Encouraged by her best friend, Sheila, she tries out for the only team there is at school - the all boys’ team. When she makes it, not everyone is happy to see a girl playing baseball. However, her problems have only just begun! To stay on the team, she needs to buy a new baseball glove and baseball cleats! But where will she get the money?

Syllabus
Verb tenses : Present Perfect Simple: the first/ second etc. time that… ; Present Perfect Simple: negative duration (haven’t … for ages); Past Perfect Simple: narrative, reported speech
Verb forms and patterns : so/neither/nor + auxiliaries in short answers
Question tags : Verb + object + full infinitive (e.g. I want you to go.) Verb + object + infinitive give/take/send/bring/show + direct/indirect object Causative have/get
Modal verbs could : possibility; might (present and future reference): possibility; ought to: obligation; don’t have to/haven’t got to: lack of obligation; used to + infinitive (past habits)
Types of clause : Defining relative with zero pronoun; Clauses of purpose

Tags
Sport | Friendship | Family | School

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