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Gabrielle Gibeault, ESL Teacher, CSVDCIn collaboration with Maripier Roy, ESL Consultant, CSVDC and Sandra Laine, Service national du RÉCIT, domaine des languesImage Source: pixabay.com, https://olympic.ca/athletes/ and Educlips
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Where is Pyeongchang?
Part 1 :
1. Label the capital of South
Korea.
2. Label Pyeongchang.
3. Label Gangneung.
Pyeongchang Mountain Cluster Gangneung Coastal Cluster
Part 2 : Complete the chart and find out where each winter sport will be played .
Rachel Homan
Date of Birth : April 28th, 1989Age : 28Height : 5’6Home Province : Ontario
Rachel Homan is the skipper, the captain, of her curling team. Her team includes
Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, and Lisa Weagle. Emma Miskew and Rachel
Homan have been teammates since the age of 11. She led her team to the gold
medal at the 2017 World’s Curling Championship. It was her third appearance in
the World’s Curling Championship where she won a bronze and silver medal. She
started curling at the age of 5 and started to compete in competitions at the age of
12. She participated in the Canada Winter games in 2007 where she won a gold
medal.
Justine Dufour-Lapointe
Date of Birth : April 28th, 1989Age : 28Height : 5’6Home Province : Ontario
Justine Dufour-Lapointe is the youngest of the three Dufour-Lapointe sisters
(Maxime and Chloe). Justine’s first Winter Olympic Games was in Sochi 2014. The
sisters became the 3rd set of sisters to participate in the same individual event at
the Olympic Games. She won a gold medal in freestyle skiing (moguls) and her
sister, Chloe, won the silver. Chloe and Justine, with their gold and silver win,
became the 3rd set of sisters to win both 1st and 2nd place in the Winter Olympic
Games. She started skiing at the age of 8. Her parents gave her cookies to ski with
her sisters. Justine always wears unicorn socks when she is competing. She has
won two bronzes, a silver and a gold medal for freestyle skiing (moguls) in the FIS
World Championships
Max Parrot
Date of Birth : June 6th, 1994Age : 23Height : 5’9Home Province : Quebec
Max Parrot is from the region of Bromont, Quebec. He is the son of Alain Parrot,
alpine skier and water ski jump champion. At the age of 10, Max Parrot changed
from skiing to snowboarding. At the age of 16, he won 3rd place at the St-Sauveur
Shakedown and it is at this moment he became a professional snowboarder. In
2014, Max participated in the Winter Olympic Games for snowboarding (slopestyle)
and won 5th overall. He won a silver medal in 2015 at the X Games in Aspen. In
2016 and 2017, he won back-to-back gold medals at the X Games in Norway. He
landed the first ever switch quadruple underflip in big air competition.
Alex Harvey
Date of Birth : September 7th, 1988Age : 29Height : 6’0Home Province : Quebec
Alex Harvey was introduced to cross-country skiing at the age of 3. His father is the
legendary cross-country skier Pierre Harvey (4- time Olympian for cross-country
and cycling). Alex Harvey participated in Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 Winter
Olympic Games. In 2011, Alex Harvey and his teammate Devon Kershaw won a
gold medal for team sprint at the World Championships. They became the first
Canadian men who would to ever reach the podium for cross-country skiing. In
2013, he became the first Canadian man to win an individual medal with his bronze
medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Kailie Humphries
Date of Birth : September 4th, 1985Age : 32Height : 5’6Home Province : Alberta
Kailie Humphries is from Calgary, Alberta. She has participated in two Winter
Olympic games (Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014) in bobsleigh. In the Vancouver
2010, Kailie and her teammate, Heather Moyse, won a gold medal. They became
the first Canadian bobsleigh team to ever win gold. In Sochi 2014, they won a gold
medal by winning by .10 of a second. Kailie and Heather were named the flag
bearers for the Sochi closing ceremonies. Kailie Humphries was named the 2014
winner of the Lou Marsh award as Canadian athlete of the year.
Charles Hamelin
Date of Birth : April 14th, 1984Age : 33Height : 5’7Home Province : Quebec
Charles Hamelin is from Ste-Julie, Quebec. Charles Hamelin first sport was
baseball but got into speed skating at the age of 9 after seeing it and thinking it
looked cool. His little brother, Francois Hamelin, will also be participating in the
PyeongChang Winter games. He is participating in his 4th Olympic Games. His
first Olympic Games were Turin 2006. He has won 4 Olympic medals, three gold
medals and one silver. He is the most decorated, has the most medals, male
Winter Olympian for Team Canada. In the 2016-17 season, he won 32
championship titles including 9 gold medals.
Marie-Philip Poulin
Date of Birth : March 28th, 1991Age : 27Height : 5’5Home Province : Quebec
Marie-Philip Poulin is from Beauceville, Quebec. She joined the national team
program in 2007 and has been on the team ever since. She has been in three
Olympic Winter Games : Vancouver, Sotchi, and PyeongChang. She was only 18
years old during the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 where she scored the two goals
in the gold medal match against the USA. In Sotchi, she was Canada’s leading
scorer with three goals and two assists. One of these goals led to the team tying
the game in the last minute of the Gold Medal game against USA and would again
score the winning goal to give Canada their 4th straight Olympic Gold medal. She
was nominated captain of the women’s hockey team for the national team in
PyeongChang.
Marianne St-Gelais
Date of Birth : February 17th, 1990Age : 28Height : 5’3”Home Province : Quebec
Marianne St-Gelais is one of the best 500m short track speed skaters in the world
and was ranked 1st in the 2016-17 season in the 500 metres. In 2009, she started
skating in the senior competitions for Team Canada after a successful junior career
and winning a gold medal in the the 2009 Junior World Championships. She
participated in the Vancouver and Sochi Olympic Games and will be going to her
third Olympics in PyeongChang. In Vancouver, she won two silver medals in the
500 m and the 1000m. In Sotchi, she would win another silver medal as part of the
3000m relay team.
Mark McMorris
Date of Birth :December 9th, 1993 Age : 25Height : 5’9Home Province : Saskatchewan
Mark McMorris is a snowboarder from Regina, Saskatchewan. He is always
looking to improve snowboarding and in 2011 he did just that by being the first
snowboarder to land a backside triple cork 1440. He was part of Team Canada in
the Sochi Games in 2014. Two weeks before Sotchi, McMorris would break his
ribs in the X Games in Aspen. He snowboarded through pain and would go on
and win an Olympic bronze medal. In March 2017, McMorris would suffer a
horrific accident while snowboarding in the mountains. He fractured his jaw, left
arm, pelvis, ribs, ruptured spleen and collapsed lung; however, this will not stop
McMorris for going to his second Olympic Games in PyeongChang.
Alex Gough
Date of Birth : May 12th, 1987Age : 31Height : 5’6”Home Province : Quebec
Alex Gough is a veteran member of Canada’s luge team and was part of the
national team in both the Vancouver and Sochi Olympic Games. She competes
in singles and in the team relay. In 2011, she became the first canadian luger to
win a gold medal at the World Cup Race breaking a 105-race streak held by the
Germans. She is currently ranked in the top 5 female lugers in the world. In
2014, she finished 4th in the singles event which is the best any Canadian Luger
has done before. She would participate in the relay team event where the
Canadian team would place 4th. She is working on improving the sport and
making Canada one of the best in luge.
Mikael Kingsbury
Date of Birth : July 24th, 1992Age : 25Height : 5’7”Home Province : Quebec
Mikael Kingsbury is a freestyle mogul skier for team Canada. In 2010 at the
Vancouver Olympics, Mikael witnessed Alexandre Bilodeau win a gold medal.
After the games, Mikael was inspired and competed in the FIS World Cup 2010
where he won Rookie of the Year. The following season, he went on to win 13
World Cup medals (8 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze) and won the Crystal Globe as
the overall World Cup champion. He was just under 20 years old making him the
youngest to win the Crystal Globe. In 2014, Mikael Kingsbury competed in the
Sochi Olympic Games where he won a silver medal behind Alexandre Bilodeau.
Tessa Virtue
Date of Birth : May 17th, 1989Age : 29Height : 5’4”Home Province : Ontario
Tessa Virtue and her partner, Scott Moir, have been competing together since
they were little children in Ontario. Tessa and Scott would make their Olympic
debut in 2010 at the Vancouver Winter Games. At the Vancouver Games, Scott
and Tessa went on to win a gold medal making them the youngest ice dancing
partners to win a gold medal. Tessa was 20 years old at the time. Tessa
competed with a leg injury which made walking very painful. In the fall of 2010,
she had surgery on her leg to relieve some pain. Scott and Tessa competed
again in Sochi, in 2014, where they won two silver medals (team and ice
dancing). In 2016, they moved their training base to Montreal under their new
coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.
Scott Moir
Date of Birth : September 22nd, 1987Age : 30Height : 5’7Home Province : Ontario
Scott Moir and his partner, Tessa Virtue, have been competing together since
they were little children in Ontario. Tessa and Scott would make their Olympic
debut in 2010 at the Vancouver Winter Games. At the Vancouver Games, Scott
and Tessa went on to win a gold medal making them the youngest ice dancing
partners to win a gold medal. Scott was 22 years old at the time. Scott and Tessa
competed again in Sochi, in 2014, where they won two silver medals (team and
ice dancing). In 2016, they moved their training base to Montreal under their new
coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon. They were undefeated in
the 2016-17 competing season. They will be competing again in PyeongChang.
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