Girls' and boys' teams Lesson 69 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Josh in Bristol sneers «You kick like a girl» at Maya, and her next shot flies into the top corner; how hard you kick comes from technique and practice (plant foot, swing, contact with the laces), not from being a boy or a girl at this age. 2 Nerves are the same chemistry for everyone: the butterflies before a cup final are adrenaline moving blood away from the stomach to the muscles, in boys and girls alike. 3 Women's sport is big and growing: England's Lionesses won the Euros in 2022 and again in 2025, and the Red Roses won the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup, while men and boys play netball too, so any sport is open to anyone who loves it. 5 Before puberty boys and girls have very similar muscle, speed and strength, and practice matters most. 6 Bigger differences in strength and speed appear in the teens, when boys make much more testosterone. 7 How hard and clean you kick a ball depends on technique and practice. 8 Pre-match butterflies are adrenaline moving blood from the stomach to the muscles, and boys and girls make it the same way. 9 In England the FA lets boys and girls play in mixed teams up to under-18; the limit used to be under-11. 10 On 31 July 2022 England's women beat Germany 2–1 after extra time in the Euro final at Wembley in front of 87,192 fans, a record for any Euro final, men's or women's, and millions more watched on TV. 11 England reached the 2023 Women's World Cup final and then won Euro 2025, beating Spain on penalties (3–1 in the shootout) after a 1–1 draw. 12 England's Red Roses won the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham, beating Canada 33–13. 14 Girls in a mixed team who get passed to less get fewer touches and fewer chances to show their skill. 15 Some girls prefer mixed teams and some prefer girls' teams; it is a choice about fun and friends, not about level. ← previous The coach who shouts and parents on the touchlinenext → The kid who is always on the bench↑ back to Medicine This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/69-girls-and-boys-teams/