1. Choose the right form of the verb / выберите правильную форму глагола.

1. Even virtual games play the certain role in (to get/get/getting) kids off the sofa.

2. Virtual gaming is a place (to start/start/starting).

3. Kids can (to feel/ feel/ feeling) a little better about actually (to try/try/trying) the activity.

4. It’s easy like a movement of the hand (to play/play/playing) tennis.

5. 60 calories can (to be burned/be burned/be burning) during video gaming.

6. People ought (to get/get/getting) outside.

7. Doctors recommend kids (to perform/perform/performing) an hour of physical activity per day.

8. You should (to think/think/thinking) of (to play/play/playing) real sport games.

Ex.4. Change the following infinitive forms of the verbs by the gerund forms if possible / Перепишите предложения, заменив инфинитивную форму глагола герундиальной, если возможно:

1. It’s a way to start physical activity. – It’s a way of starting physical activity.

2. Doctors recommend children to perform an hour of physical activity per day.

3. You can get some fun when you play real games.

4. Games can help to improve one’s confidence.

5. You can burn some calories during virtual gaming.

6. It’s not so easy to get of the couch.

Ex.5. Choose the right conjunction / Выберите подходящий союз.

1. Colleen Green, (that, who, whom) is a wellness coordinator for MFit, says that virtual gaming can’t replace traditional exercise.

2. Video games, (that, whose, where) can play an important role in involving kids in physical activity, can’t be a replacement for traditional exercise.

3. The calories, (what, who, which) can be burned during virtual gaming, are not enough for people to keep themselves in good physical state.

4. Kids, (whom, which, who) play real sport games, have some real fun.

5. The percentage of young people in the USA (who, which, what) are overweight has more than tripled since 1980.

6. Virtual gaming (that, what, where) can be the start point on kid’s way to real sport play a certain role in our life.

Ex.6. Make complex sentences with attributive clauses / Составьте сложноподчиненные предложения с определительными придаточными.

1. Colleen Greene disagrees with the statement that video games are a replacement for traditional exercise. Colleen Green is a wellness coordinator for MFit.

Colleen Green who is a wellness coordinator for MFit says that virtual gaming can’t replace traditional exercise.

2. Virtual games can help people get off the sofa. Such games play some role in our life.

3. Video games are the way of getting fun for some people. Such people usually don’t play real games.

4. Real calories can be burned during virtual gaming. They are from 60 to 70 per hour.

5. These games are interactive. They can require very little activity.

6. Greene writes about some games. These games can help to improve kid’s hand-eye coordination.

Text 4. Sport. Is It Good For You?

Everybody knows about positive influence of sport on people’s bodies and minds. Sport educates a strong will, discipline, ability to overcome difficulties. It helps to increase self-confidence and keep fit. It can even be a treatment: sometimes doctors prescribe going in for sport as a cure for people with certain diseases. The proverb of ancient Greeks says “If you want to be beautiful – you should run, if you want to be healthy – you should run, if you want to be clever – you should run”, and it is still the truth. So if we take this part of the sport life, everything is brilliant and suitable for you and your health.

But if we take off the pink sun glasses, we’ll see that there are some points that are not so fine.

Let’s look at the life of professional sportsmen. On one hand, they are full of life, energetic, strong people with good health and big sum of money in the bank. But on the other hand, the essential part of their life is the professional traumas. For example, I can tell you a story of one boxer, named Muhammad Ali. He was the winner of the Olympics in 1960, won 51 out of 56 combats and was told to be the real master of boxing. But the price for that was very high – he got Parkinson disease at the age of 40.

Another problem of the professional sport is so-called dope. It’s a helping hand for those, aiming the first places and gold medals, but no-one can truly say, that it will bring no harm or it will be no side effects in future. Everybody has heard about steroids employed by body builders to gain muscles. But have you ever heard that the steroids in very small doses have been used to treat people with mental disturbances, such as schizophrenia and maniac depression for over 50 years. Can you predict what will happen with the body builders in some years? I can’t.

One more trouble of professional sportsmen is that they are forced to retire young so there is great pressure on them. They must win everything they can so they are to keep the strong rules and have got no possibility to make a decision of their own.

If we speak about people who are not crazy about sport they’ve got different difficulties. Let’s imagine an average person who is not keen on sport but goes to the gym or swimming pool twice or three times a week. The very this average man is in danger of overdoing the exercises (because the load is too high). Let make alone extreme kinds of sport which can be really risky without the needed trainings.

(www.engtopic.ru/health/sport-is-it-always-good-for-you Adapted by Nekrashevich Nadezhda)