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Educational and fun audiobooks for children and families. A variety of genres await and each podcast comes with podcast specific questions assessing retrieval, sequencing, SPaG, prediction, inference and note taking skills. Ideal as an independent classroom activity, intervention exercise OR homework task.
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Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Women In Sport:50 fearless athletes who played to win ep. 4
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Episode 4 - Junko Tabei, Wilma Rudolph, Jody Conradt, Billie jean King and Patti McGee
Junko Tabei
Why do you think some men did not want to climb with her?
How many women did Junko take to Mount Everest?
What happened to her team when the avalanche hit?
What is meant by the term ‘seven summits’? Can you find out whet these 7 are?
Wilma Rudolph
Which disease did Wilma contract as a child?
Why could she not get treatment at a local hospital? How did this situation make her a fighter?
In the two games she participated in, which medals did she win?
How come her victory parade was almost cancelled?
Jody Conradt
In which state was Jody born?
How were the rules of women’s basketball different to those of the men’s game?
Find out how much $1,200 is and do you think this is enough money for three sports teams
How many consecutive games did the Lady Longhorns win with Jody as coach?
Billie Jean King
How old was Billie Jean when she won the doubles at Wimbledon
What was the male and female prize money amounts for Wimbledon 1968? Is this fair?
When did the USTA finally award equal prize money?
Do you think her win at “Battle of the sexes” just changed tennis, or had a wider significance?
Patti McGee
Why do you think Patti took up skateboarding? What was the sport she loved most?
What does the word ‘daredevil’ mean? Can you find a suitable synonym?
How did she become the fastest woman on a skateboard? Do you think you could do that?
What was ‘First Betty’ ?
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