Are you ready for some football?

This weekend the New England Patriots will play the Denver Broncos in the AFC championship game. The winner of this game will play in the Super Bowl. The best player for the Denver Broncos is Peyton Manning. He is the quarterback for the Broncos. Manning, who was a first round pick, broke many records in the 2013 season. If Manning and the Broncos wins this game on Sunday he will be going to the Super Bowl, which is being played in New York this year, for the second time in his career. The best player for the Patriots is their quarterback, Tom Brady. Brady, who was a seventh round pick, has won three Super Bowls and has been in five total. If Brady and the Patriots win, it will be the sixth time him and his head coach, Bill Belicheck have gone to the Super Bowl together. These two quarterbacks have played each other many times over the past fifteen years, with Brady coming out victorious more often than not. After a heart breaking ending to their season last year, Manning and the Broncos have all the motivation to win this year and return to the sports biggest event.

Vocabulary
Records: An achievement by a person or team that no one else has done.
Championship: The most important game of the year. The two best teams play to be the best one.
Super Bowl: Footballs championship game.
Motivation: Desire to want to succeed.
Winner: Person or team who plays better.
Patriots: Team from New England who were named to describe early Americans.
Broncos: Team from Denver named after a wild horse.
Victorious: Winning a game or competition.
Quarterback: A position on a football team.
Heart breaking: An expression to describe extreme sadness.

Vocabulary Assignment 

Fill in the blank using the vocabulary words.

1. The                    was so difficult to control after the race.
2. Sometimes people need the right                              to get their work done.
3. The                                   is the most viewed event in the world.
4. Tiger Woods was the                         of the 1998 US open.
5. I hope my team wins today so we can play in the                              game next week.
6. Losing a really close game is so                                 .
7. George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson are all considered                           .
8. If you can throw a football far, you should think about playing                       .
9. If you work really hard and get a little lucky, you can breaks a lot of                              .
10. I scored more points than my opponent so that made me                       .

Grammar Point:
The vocabulary assignment for this post gives students a chance to take new words that they have learned and put them into sample sentences. These sentences only have one correct matching word, so when they place the correct word in the correct sentence, they will see and hear what context that word belongs. It will help them learn to read around words to figure out the definition of a word that they do not know.