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B. State whether the given statements are True or False.

a. The original name of tennis is ‘lawn tennis’.
b. Ladies’ wheelchair doubles comes under junior events.
c. Most of the tickets are distributed through online booking.

d. The Wimbledon Championship is usually played in June and July.
e. The players can practise matches in the main show courts at any time.
f. The prize money for the singles winners was £2.35 million.

C. Answer the following questions.

a. How is Wimbledon different from other Grand Slam tournaments?
b. State the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.
c. What are the five main events of Wimbledon?
d. What can tennis fans do if they don’t win a ticket in the public ballot?

e. Why was Wimbledon Centre Court fitted with a rectangle roof?
f. What is inscribed on the of Gentlemen’s Singles trophy?
g. Who won the Gentlemen’s Singles and Ladies’ Singles in 2019?

D. Why is it important to have tournaments for wheel chair users?

Pronunciation

Read the following part of the poem "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst
Trenité. Try to pronounce each word correctly.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
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