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Brothers Volodymyr and Vitaliy Klychko
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Vitaliy Klychko (born 19 July 1971) and Volodymyr Klychko (born 25 March 1976), collectively known as The Klychko brothers are Ukrainian heavyweight boxers.
They reside in Germany, where they are media stars. Both brothers made their professional debute on November 6, 1996 in Hamburg. Since then both have been heavyweight world champions in boxing. They have stated they will never fight each other.
After a series of injuries, Vitaliy had a career break of almost four years. In his comeback fight in Berlin on October 11, 2008 he defeated Samuel Peter to regain the title of WBC world heavyweight champion. At that time Volodymyr was already world heavyweight champion with the WBO, IBF and IBO. That was the first time in history with two brothers world champions at the same time. Vitaliy retained the WBC Heavyweight Championship in 2011. On July 2, 2011, Volodymyr won the WBA Title, which means that the Klychko brothers hold all of the World Heavyweight Titles collectively.
The Klychko brothers jointly run the professional boxing promotion companies " K2 Promotions" and " K2 East Promotions", as well as the " Klychko Brothers Fund", a charity organization. They appear together on German TV shows and commercials, have a common website klitschko.com and support each other's training and fights.
On the 8th of September 2012, they had a combined professional boxing record of 103 wins and 5 defeats. Brothers Vitaly and Volodymyr Klychko always show the highly professional boxing.
Vocabulary to the text:
a heavyweight boxer – боксер у важкій вазі
to reside / to live - жити
to state - заявляти
to fight each other - бити один одного
a series of injuries - ряд (низка) поранень
a career break - кар’єрна перерва
comeback fight - бій після одужання (повернення0
to defeate - завдавати поразки;
defeate - поразка
to retain the title - повернути титул
to run the professional boxing promotion companies – відкривати рекламні компанії професійного боксу
a charity organization – благодійна організація
to appear – з’являтися
a commercial - реклама
a common website – спільний вебсайт
to support each other's training and fights – підтримувати тренування і бої один
одного
a combined professional boxing record –об’єднаний рекорд професійного боксу
Exercise 8. Answer the questions:
1. How are the Klychko brothers known?
2. Where do they reside nowadays?
3. What do the Klychko brothers run jointly?
4. What happened on the 8th of September 2012?
*Exercise 9. Speak on the following statements:
1. Share your opinion on the role of the sponsors for the development of sport.
2. There is an opinion that professional sports damage the people's health and life. Do you agree?
3. At what age should children go in for sport in a professional way?
4. Are there any age limits for different kinds of sport?
5. The children's parents are sometimes too ambitious about the successes of their children and they push the children into this or that kind of sports. Are the parents right?
6. There are sports which look like merry-making; they don't need any facilities or equipment and are available for all. Which of the following have you tried or would like to try? (hopscotch – гра в класи; hide-and-seek - хованки; jumping on a rope; playing snowballs; making a snowman; sledging).
7. What kind of exercises do you do to warm up your muscles?
8.What famous Ukrainian sportsmen do you know?
**Exercise 9. Speak about your favourite sport and sportsman. You can use the followung information about some famous sportsmen:
Ronaldinho: Football player
(Ronaldo de Assis Moreira)
· Born 21 March 1980, the city of Porto Alegre.
· He is a Brazilian footballer who is now playing for Brazilian club Atlé tico Mineiro and for the Brazilian national team as a forward.
· He started his career with playing for Grê mio, then later for clubs Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and Milan.
· He is a two-time winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year (2004-2005) and has also been honored with the European Footballer of the Year (2005) and the FifPro Player of the Year (2005).
· He began playing at the age of seven. At this time he first got the nickname “Ronaldinho”, because he was really small and more over all guys he was playing with, were older than he.
· When he was thirteen years old, he once scored 23 goals in one game.
· In 2005, Ronaldinho and Brazilian dancer Janaí na Mendes had a son, named Joo.
· Ronaldinho was not included on the 2010 Brazilian team that competed in the World Cup in South Africa.
Vocabulary to the text:
FIFA - Міжнародна федерація футбольних асоціацій
FifPro - Міжнародна федерація асоціацій професійних футболістів
nickname – прізвисько
the World Cup – чемпіонат світу з футболу
Maria Sharapova: Tennis player
(Maria Yuryevna Sharapova)
· Born April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Siberia, Soviet Union.
· She is a Russian professional tennis player.
· In 2012 she was ranked World No. 2.
· In the summer of 2004, seventeen-year-old Maria became the first Russian player to win Wimbledon.
· Since 1994 she has won 27 WTA singles titles, including four Grand Slam singles titles.
· She became the World No. 1 for the first time in 2005.
· Sharapova won her first junior championship title at the age of thirteen.
· She has also done some modeling. She reads fashion magazines, and has even helped to design some of her court outfits with Nike.
Vocabulary to the text:
to be ranked – отримати статус (ранг)
Wimbledon – Уімбелдон (щорічний тенісний турнір)
Grand Slam – Гренд Слем (ряд найважливіших змагань року з певного виду спорту)
WTA (Women’s tennis association) – жіноча тенісна організація
single titles – одиночний титул
outfits – образ. одяг
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