Forest Training

10/10/2020 4:37:00 PM

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Do you know?

  • Lasse Virén was born on July 22, 1949 in Myrskylä, Finland.
  • He was the first athlete to win gold medals in both the 5,000- and 10,000-metre races at consecutive Olympic Games: at Munich, West Germany, in 1972 and at Montreal in 1976.

Let's learn more about this athlete!

FACT: Lasse Virén set an Olympic record when he won the 5,000-metre race at Munich.

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Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

  • What did Lasse Viren do?
  • How did Lasse train?

What did Lasse Viren do?

  • He was a runner.
  • He was a trainer.
  • He made silver medals.

Lasse trained by _____.

  • relaxing more than practising
  • choosing tracks to run
  • running on forest trails

Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.

Forest Training

Olympic runners train hard. They have to get ready long before the Olympic Games start. Lasse Viren was from Finland. He was a runner. He ran long . He won gold medals in the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games.

How did Lasse train? He ran his own way. He ran all the time, but he didn’t run on tracks. Instead, he liked to run on forest trails. He felt running on the got his legs ready for anything. He also felt the uneven forest trails made him .

How did running on forest trails make Lasse mentally tough? Lasse could never relax. He had to be . This was because the ground was uneven. He had to watch for roots. He had to watch for rocks. Sometimes, he had to slow down. Other times, he could speed up. He could never stop paying .

Read and answer the following questions.


Lasse Viren achieves Olympic double in Munich. Image: runnerprogram.com

Olympic runners train hard. They have to get ready long before the Olympic Games start. Lasse Viren was from Finland. He was a runner. He ran long distances. He won gold medals in the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games.

How did Lasse train? He ran his own way. He ran all the time, but he didn’t run on tracks. Instead, he liked to run on forest trails. He felt running on the trails got his legs ready for anything. He also felt the uneven forest trails made him mentally tough.

How did running on forest trails make Lasse mentally tough? Lasse could never relax. He had to be alert. This was because the ground was uneven. He had to watch for roots. He had to watch for rocks. Sometimes, he had to slow down. Other times, he could speed up. He could never stop paying attention.

Source: Daily Warm-ups Reading Grade 2

What Olympic Games did Lasse win gold medals in?
  • 1962 and 1964
  • 1968 and 1976
  • 1972 and 1974
  • 1972 and 1976
This story is mainly about _____
  • why the Olympic Games started.
  • how one Olympic runner trained.
  • the even tracks at the Olympic Games.
  • when the Olympic Games were in Finland.
If you are alert, you are _____
  • paying attention.
  • staying tough.
  • standing straight.
  • feeling relaxed.

Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.

  1. He ran long .
  2. He felt running on the got his legs ready for anything.
  3. He also felt the uneven forest trails made him .
  4. Lasse could never relax. He had to be .
  5. He could never stop paying .

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

  1. He is ill so he stays at home.
  2. Many people walked by this nature .
  3. Even men need to cry sometimes.
  4. What's the between Hanoi and Danang?
  5. I'm not feeling very today because I did not have enough sleep last night!
  6. I knocked on the door to get my mother's .