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The 2016 Olympic Games will start in less than four weeks. Your InterCom editor is excited as always to watch people from all over the world, each bringing their own language and culture, competing in a spirit of peace. As a resident of Tracktown USA (Eugene, Oregon), she is also looking forward to watching competitors on the TV that she has watch competing in person on our own University of Oregon campus. In this and coming weeks we’ll be sharing Olympics-related resources that you can use in your classroom.

A great place to start for content is the Rio 2016 website itself, which is available in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. The site covers both the Olympic and Paralympic games. If you teach one of these languages, head to the main website at https://www.rio2016.com. You can start by having your students learn about the different Olympic sports with these spectator guides: https://www.rio2016.com/esportes (you can toggle among the four languages at the top of the page). What are the dominant countries in each sport? Who in your classroom follows or participates in the different sports? Is there a particular athlete from a country that speaks your target language that you can follow?

From tes, here is a reading comprehension lesson for French learners, again based on an article from the Rio 2016 website: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-comprehension-rio-olympics-11314886

From our sister LRC, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, comes a special series about the Olympics on their Brazilpod site. Access this series at http://linguadagente.coerll.utexas.edu/

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