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Classroom resources | Playing a ‘cascarita’ with words
Inspired by poetry and stories about soccer, students of all ages might enjoy a cascarita—an informal, improvised game—with words instead of a football. (Jan 6)
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To admire a footballer is to admire something very close to pure poetry or abstract painting. It is to admire form for form’s sake, without any rationally identifiable content. (Mario Vargas Llosa, El País, 1982)
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- China | ‘Penalty Phase,’ by Gay Talese (chapter 43)
- Ukraine | ‘The Dynamo Team,’ by Anatoly Kuznetsov (chapter 38)
- Translations | No último minuto (‘In the last minute’)
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- The Writers’ League | Israeli trophy leads to ‘emptiness of the day after’
- The Writers’ League | For 3 days in Tel Aviv, football becomes more than metaphor
- Translations | How ‘newspapers’ become ‘body bags’ when translating the global game
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