The Mountain Sports Challenge
You are invited to compete in an exciting mountain sports festival. Your choices will determine which sport you enter, how you prepare, and whether you achieve your goals.
A free Story Adventure for Teens at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Sport.
Story
- You receive an invitation to the Mountain Sports Festival happening next month. The festival offers three different competitions: rock climbing, mountain biking, and trail running. You have never done any of these sports before, but you are excited about the challenge. Your best friend Maya is also…
- You and Maya start training at an indoor climbing gym twice a week. The instructor, Coach Ravi, teaches you proper technique and safety rules. After two weeks, you feel stronger and more confident. However, one day Maya tells you she is nervous about the outdoor climb during the festival. She asks…
- You and Maya start training at an indoor climbing gym twice a week. The instructor, Coach Ravi, teaches you proper technique and safety rules. After two weeks, you feel stronger and more confident. However, one day Maya tells you she is nervous about the outdoor climb during the festival. She asks…
- During the festival, you encourage Maya at every difficult moment. She completes the climb successfully because of your support, and she is very grateful. However, you were distracted by helping her, and you made some mistakes on your own route. You finish the competition, but you do not place in…
- You encourage Maya to train harder and believe in herself, but you both agree to compete separately. During the festival, you focus completely on your own climb. You climb carefully, using all the techniques Coach Ravi taught you. You reach the top of the route before many other competitors. When…
- You decide to train for mountain biking alone. You rent a bike and start practicing on local trails three times a week. At first, it is difficult—you fall several times and feel discouraged. After a few weeks, you become more skilled and confident. Two weeks before the festival, you meet another…
- Training with Alex turns out to be a good decision. Alex shows you some tricks and better routes that you did not know about. You both push each other to ride faster and longer. However, one day during a training ride, you are riding too fast on a difficult trail because you want to keep up with…
- You decide to rest and let your arm heal properly. You stop training and focus on eating well and sleeping enough. On the day of the festival, your arm still feels a bit sore, but it is much better. During the competition, you ride carefully and do not push yourself too hard. You complete the race…
Vocabulary
- invitation
- festival
- competition
- challenge
- appeal
- instructor
- technique
- safety
- confident
- nervous
- outdoor
- performance
- distracted
- mistakes
- route
- rankings
- grateful
- achieve
- techniques
- competitors
- achievement
- results
- overall
- discouraged
- skilled
- competitor
- distract
- suggests
- tricks
- routes
- control
- bruised
- cuts
- compete
- prioritize
- responsible
- sore
- satisfied
- wise
- withdraw
Printable worksheet
This Story Adventure comes with a free printable worksheet: 2 parts for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Challenge sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Remember the story · Answer in a full sentence.
- A new ending · Write a new ending for the story. Use three story words.
Part 1: Remember the story
Answer in a full sentence.
- What is the main situation at the beginning of the story?
- What problem does Maya present to you?
- What problem does Maya present to you?