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Sports in our Life
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Sport is very popular in our country. It helps people to become strong and healthy. It is popular among young and old people. People all over the world are fond of sports and games.
Athletics is the most popular sport in Ukraine. People call it the queen of all sports. Athletics includes running and jumping.
The most popular winter sports are: skating, skiing, hockey. I like to skate and to ski very much. I can breathe fresh air. People enjoy shooting, hunting, figure-skating, ski-jumping, tobogganing. It’s so nice to go to the skating-rink on a frosty sunny day.
The children like to sledge in winter. I liked to sledge in my childhood.
The most popular summer sports are: swimming, rowing, cycling, track-and-field athletics, sailing, and yachting. Various games, such as: football, handball, volley-ball, basket-ball, tennis are very popular too.
As for me, I like to ride a bicycle in summer. I like to play badminton, basket-ball, and volley-ball very much. All these games help me to rest after my lessons or after a hard work. I like to swim in the lake in summer. I think that it is very useful for my health.
In my childhood I played hopscotch, hide-and-seek and other different games. I think that all these games were a little sport for me.
Now I try to do morning exercises every day. I visit my Physical training lessons at the College. We play different sports games there. We learn running, jumping, skiing there too. We have our Physical training lessons in the gymnasium. I enjoy my Physical training lessons very much.
I like also to play draughts, chess at home when the weather is bad.
Many students of our College go in for such kinds of sports as: athletics, gymnastics, tennis, volley-ball, swimming, boxing, football, basket-ball, skating, skiing, hockey, figure-skating and chess. They train themselves not only at our Physical training lessons, but also at sports schools or at sports sections. Many of them are very good sportsmen. They always take part in sports competitions which take place in our College. Our College basket-ball team took the first place in the competitions.
As for me, I do not take part in sports competitions because I am not very strong in running and jumping. But I like sports very much. My favourite kinds of sports are: volley-ball and figure-skating. I like to play volley-ball. I am fond of figure-skating. But I can watch it only on TV.
So, I can say that everybody must go in for sport to be strong and healthy. We must remember such proverb: health is better than wealth.
Sport helps people to keep in good health. If you go in for sports, you have good health and don’t catch cold. We must do morning exercises regularly.
Vocabulary to the text:
to sledge – кататися на санчатах
hopscotch – гра в класи
hide-and-seek – хованки
*Exercise 10. Answer the following questions:
1. What are the most popular summer sports?
2. What are the most popular winter sports?
3. What do you do during your Physical training lessons?
4. What kinds of sports do many students of our College go in for?
5. Where do they train themselves?
6. Where do they take part?
7. What games did you play in your childhood?
8. How does sport help people? Does it help them to keep in good health?
9. What are the most popular indoor games?
10. What are the most popular outdoor games?
11. What can you say about physical exercises?
Exercise 11. Which word does not belong to each group? *Explain why as in the example:
Example: soccer, cricket, table tennis, rugby.
Table tennis doesn’t belong to the group because the others are all played on a field or pitch.
1. Swimming, skiing, sailing, canoeing.
2. Running, motor racing, horse racing, sailing.
3. Tennis, volleyball, badminton, baseball.
4. Basketball, table tennis, rugby, cricket.
5. Tennis, volleyball, basketball, American football.
Exercise 12. Read and dramatize the dialogue. Make up your own using this one as a model:
A: What are the most popularsports in your country?
O: To my mind, football, hockey and chess.
A: And what kinds of sport do you go in for?
O: Well, as a matter of fact, I am fond of chess, football, basketball, tennis and a few others.
A.: Oh, are you? But what is your favourite kind of sport?
O.: Probably chess and football are the ones I like best.
A.: Shall we go to the football match next week?
O.: Sure. There will be a very interesting and important game. We really must go. What are the most popular sports in the UK?
A.: Cricket, boat racing, football, fishing, and swimming are the most popular in our country.
O.: Is fishing a sport?
A.: Yes, it is. Fishing or angling is very popular in the UK. There are over 1, 000 official angling clubs in our country and their number is growing.
Exercise 13. Answer the following questions filling in the gaps in each line with one of the words given in the boxes:
1) Where do we do/play these sports?
| a board a field | a rink a court |
| a track a pool | a ring a pitch |
1. On the____: tennis, volleyball.
2. On the____: athletics, motor racing.
3. On the____: ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating.
4. On the ____: swimming.
5. On the ____: cricket, baseball, soccer, football.
6. On the____: American football, cricket.
7. On the____: chess, checkers, draughts.
8. In the ___: horse riding.
2) What equipment do we use to play these sports?
| a bat a piece a net a racquet a puck a stick gloves |
1. We use____ to play baseball, ice-hockey and to do boxing.
2. We use____ to play volleyball and tennis.
3. We use ___to play tennis and squash.
4. We use____ to play ice hockey.
5. We use____ to play chess; checkers and draughts.
6. We use____ to play ice hockey.
7. We use____ to play cricket and baseball.
3) What do we call a period of time in these games?
| a half a game a round a set |
1.____: in tennis and volleyball.
2.____: in baseball, chess, volleyball, tennis, football, ice hockey, cricket, and American football.
3._____: in baseball and boxing.
4.____: in football, soccer and American football.
4) What do we call people who take part in these sports and games?
| an umpire | a quarterback | a linesman | a fan |
| a referee | a forward | a goalkeeper | a cheerleader |
1. ______: in football, American football and boxing.
2. _______: in any spectator sport.
3. _______: in cricket, tennis, volley-ball and baseball.
4. _______: in football and tennis.
5. ______: in American football and rugby.
6.: in football and American football.
7. _____: in football, ice hockey, handball, water polo, American football and rugby.
8.: in any kind of team games, but especially in American football.
*Exercise 14. Guess what sports are mentioned below:
1. We pass the ball with the racket above the net.
2. Skates are the main equipment for it.
3. This kind of sport is impossible without a pool.
4. The sportsmen use the sword for it.
5. Eleven players of one team play in the field against eleven players
of the other team.
*Exercise 15. Complete the texts with the words below the texts:
1. Basketball is a … which you can play … and outside. There are two teams in this game. You need a… and two baskets. You have to lead the ball and throw it into the of the opposite team. The … gets the point every time when its player throws the ball into the basket. The … is the team, which gets more points by the … of the game.
(basket, game, winner, ball, end, inside, team)
2. Tennis is a game for two …. You can play it indoors and …. For this … you need a court, a low …, a racket and a special ball. You have to beat the … with the tennis racket and send the ball to the opposite part of the …. If your partner can’t beat the ball back, you get a point. The … is the person, who gets more points by the end of the game.
(players, winner, court, game, ball, outdoors, net)
**Exercise 16. Speak about the sports you like.
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