Learning activity 3

Evidence: The tennis tournament

Imagine you are arranging a trip to nearby city for a tennis tournament next
Saturday. You want your best friend to go with you, but, she/he has a very busy
schedule and needs to return by Sunday.

For this evidence, you will need to complete three parts. For the first part (A),
you need to have a look of the information about the tournament. For part B,
you have to plan a schedule for the day and write it down. Finally, for part C,
you will write an email to your friend persuading her/him to come with you.

Let’s begin!

Part A

Have a look of the Colombia International Tennis Open official website. Then,
read the order of play, which is the official schedule for games that has been
released by the tournament officials.

Fuente: SENA
 Fuente: SENA

Order of play

Day 6 – Saturday 10 January

Gentlemen's singles – Semifinal 1

Ronald Jankovic (SRB)
Center Court V.
Max Fender (SUI)
starting at Gentlemen's singles – Semifinal 2 (Not before 5:00 p.m.)
2:00 p.m.
Patrick Smith (AUS)
V.
William Sodenberg (SWE)
Boys' singles – Final
Manuel Giraldo (COL)
V.
Tim Pritchard (UK)
Senior gentlemen's doubles – Final (Not before 3:00
p.m.)
Court 1 Guy Mathiu (FRA)
starting at Pete Pioline(FRA)
1:00 p.m. V.
Rick Jones (USA)
Patrick Jones (AUS)
Lady's singles – Final (Not before 8:00 p.m.)

Jalena Monvic (SRB)

V.
Samantha Rogers (AUS)

Part B
For this part of the evidence, you need to write a schedule for the day in which
you consider the following aspects.

 Commuting: You live in a different city. Consider the transportation means

you will be using for getting to Bogota and register the time you will be
arriving. The same instruction applies for considering your return to your
home city / town.

 Transportation: Consider the time you will be moving from the train station,
bus station, or airport, to the Salitre Tennis Center. The same instruction
applies your return to the place from which you are departing (airport, train
station, etc.).

 Food: Consider the times of the day in which you will be having breakfast,
lunch and dinner. (You can also include some time for snacks in between
games if you wish so).

 Games: Based on the order of play and your personal interests, decide
which games you will be attending and include those in your schedule.

 Accommodation (optional): This applies only if you have considered

staying in Bogota and arriving to you home town or city on early Sunday
morning.

Now, write your schedule. One example has been done for you.
 Saturday January 10
Time Activity
5:00 a.m. We will have left home.
5:45 a.m. We will have arrived at the airport.
7:45 a.m. We will have taken the plane.
8:15 a.m. We will have arrived in Bogota
We will have arrived at the Hotel where we are going to
8:50 a.m.
stay.
9:20 a.m. We will have breakfast
12:00 a.m. We will have had lunch
We will have arrived at the bus station to go to the
01:30 p.m. central court where the first part of the tennis
tournament begins.
We will be participating in the game Senior Knights
03:00 p.m.
Doubles - Final.
4:00 p.m. We will have eaten a snack.
We will be participating in the game Simple knights -
5:00 p.m.
semifinal 2.
8:00 p.m. We will have arrived at the Hotel.
8:30 p.m. We will have dinner.
Domingo 11 de enero
Tiempo Actividad
5:00 a.m. We will have left the hotel.
5:30 a.m. We will have arrived at the airport.
7:30 a.m. We will have taken the plane.
7:55 a.m. We will have arrived in Medellin.
8:40 a.m. We will have come home.

Part C

For this part of the evidence, you need to write an email to you best friend in
which you describe your plan in detail. Your idea is to persuade and convince
her/him to come and join you. Consider the following:

 You friend needs to be back home by 9:00 a.m., Sunday morning.

 Your friend is not a big fan of tennis, but you are, so, you need to include
interesting details about the players, the games and the tournament.
 Use the schedule to demonstrate how you will have done a lot of activities
during the day. For this purpose, you need to use the future perfect tense; for
example: By 5:00 a.m. we will have left home.

Now, write you email. Be as creative as possible.

[Your name here]

To: CAMILODURAN05@EDW.com
From: DIANARINCON95@EDW. com
Subject: Tennis trip!!!!
Date:

Dear Camilo,

I am writing to make you an incredible invitation to a tournament that will take place in Bogotá,
Colombia on Saturday, January 10, it is called the Colombia International Tennis Open, which
takes place in the renovated courts of the High Performance Center, a tournament that, from
one u otherwise, it gives this country a better status as an organizer of major sporting events.
Which seems to me to be a great opportunity for us to get to know this beautiful city and its
incredible climate.

There we will carry out a series of activities which will include participation in two great games
that are: Men's Singles - Semi-Final 2 one of the most awaited by lovers of this sport as I know
you don't know much so, I will tell you a little about each player and some interesting facts,
Patrick Smith who is an Australian professional tennis player considered in this country as one
of the best in this sport since 2012 has so far won 1 ATP Challenger Series title in individual,
and 13 more in the doubles modality, on the ATP World Tour, against William Sodenberg is a
winner of 20 individual titles in Grand Slam tournaments, the highest number in the history of
men's tennis and has maintained the number 1 position in the ATP ranking for a record time of
310 weeks, 237 consecutive. It currently ranks fourth in the ATP Classification. On the other
hand, the Senior Gentlemen's Doubles game - Final Tennis is a sport with a long tradition in
France, being one of the great powers such as French player Guy Mathiu, who currently
occupies third place in the ATP Rankings. His best position in the ranking was # 3, Pete Pioline
French tennis player is the only player to have reached the top ten in the ATP ranking (in 2000