The London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012
July 27th to August 12th
August 29th to September 9th

Have a look at some passages of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Click on the pictures to go to the websites.

• First part: Find information about the history of the Olympic Games.

Read a text about the history of the games.Then do the two tasks and complete your worksheet.



• Second part: Find information about the history of the Olympic truce.

Read a text about the history of the Olympic truce and do the activities and complete your worksheet.



• Third part:Find information about the London's Olympic story.

Read a text about the London's Olympic story.Then do the two tasks and complete your worksheet.



• Fourth part: facts and figures about London 2012.

Read the text and complete the sentences on your worksheet.



• Fifth part: Find information about the history of the Paralympic Games.

Read a text about the history of the Paralympic Games. First, do the activity "preparation" and complete your worksheet.Then read the text and do the two tasks in order to complete your worksheet.



• Sixth part: Find information about the founder of the Paralympic Games.

Do the preparation task and complete your worksheet. Then read the article, do the two tasks and complete your worksheet.



• Seventh part: find information about the origins of football and the origins of the name "marathon".

Watch the videos and answer the questions on your worksheet. You can do the games about the vocabulary and the idioms as well.

• To revise what you learn about the history of the Olympic Games, you can download the game "Who wants to be a millionaire?" to play the game again.

• You can watch again the slideshow about the olympic champions here.

Code et design par Mme Béatrice Sailly. 2010.
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