- •Football
- •Gymnastics
- •Wrestling
- •Weight lifting
- •Winter sports
- •Skating
- •Aquatics
- •Swimming
- •Yachting
- •Boating
- •Shooting
- •I. Translate the vocabulary into Russian or Ukrainian.
- •II. Discussion point.
- •III. Read the text and answer the questions after it. Sport and games
- •Fill the gaps in the texts with the suitable words or phrases.
- •V. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- •VI. Choose the correct answer.
- •VII. Reading comprehension (1).
- •The football match
- •VIII. Complete the sentences with the suitable words or expressions.
- •IX. Choose the correct answer.
- •X. Discussion point.
- •XI. Read the text and answer the questions after it. The olympic games
- •XII. Discussion point.
- •XIII. Choose the correct answer.
- •XV. Reading comprehension (2).
- •Record-breaker
- •XVII. Reading comprehension (3).
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- •Arizona claim world series place
- •McNish completes toyota line-up
- •Lara fit for sri lanka
Gymnastics
An outdoor gym (gymnasium)
An indoor gym
Free calisthenics
Side horse
Long horse
Parallel bars
(flying) rings
horisontal bar
balance beam
rope climb
a complicated exercise
to balance
BOXING
Were you at the boxing match?
Who is in the ring now?
He doesn`t even know the ABC of boxing.
He knocked out the well-known boxer N.
He captured the middle-weight title of the European champion.
He made a splendid showing in the All-Russia championship.
He is good in a close fight.
He has a powerful punch.
He defeated a much more experienced boxer.
He is a knock-out specialist.
He confidently won the country title.
He won by (on) points (by a knock-out).
It`s a ten round match, isn`t it?
How long does a round last?
It was a hard blow (punch).
He delivered a series of blows.
He dealt a crippling blow that sent his opponent to the floor.
He floored him in the second round.
He went into a knock-down.
The referee is counting.
The gong struck, and the battle was on.
It was not a fight; it was a slaughter, a massacre.
The first and second rounds were tame.
In the seventh round N., under a heavy blow, dropped.
The referee caught M.`s gloved hand and held in aloft.
Bout
Referee
Second
Clinch
Break!
Below the belt
Uppercut
Straight right (left)
To batter (hammer)
To parry
To attack
To avoid
To give the ropes
Boxing weights:
Flyweight
Bantamweight
Featherweight
Light weight
Light welter weight
Welter weight
Light middle weight
Middle weight
Light heavy weight
Heavy weight
Wrestling
He floored (put him down) in five minutes.
He has got a good hold of him now.
How heavily they breathe.
The one in red is exhausted.
The other one is just like an eel.
He threw him down rather hard.
The referee is trying to break them.
It`s a clutch.
Who is the champion in free style wrestling?
He won by (on) points.
His technique is much higher than M`s.
Classical wrestling
Free-style wrestling
A hurl, a throw
A bridge
Weight lifting
What`s his own weight?
He turns the scale at (to) 120 kgs.
What`s his total?
He lifted half a ton in three goes.
Did he take the weight?
What was his press (snatch, jerk)? (How much did he press?)
He couldn`t take 150 kgs in a press.
He is clever at two-hand press.
He was unable to complete the press.
Winter sports
Skating
skating-rink
speed skating
The speed skating national champion
Figure skating (cutting)
Figure-cutter (figure-skater)
A skating figure
The technique of figure cutting (of speed skating)
A pirouette
A dance on the ice
The track
To skate in pairs
To race the 5,000-metre distance in…
To cover the race for the 1000 metres in … min. …sec.
Skiing
a skiing race
a skiing relay
a cross-country skiing race
downhill skiing
ski jumping
slalom
a ski-jumping board
accurate (inaccurate) landing
to land in a fall
to lose a point because of a fall
skiing gear
bindings
Ice-hockey
To roll in the ball
To throw in the chuck
To throw a ball up
To hock the chuck
To block up
To score a chuck
To let a chuck through the goal