Lesson 13

1 Sport is the Way of Formation the Character.

• Reading and speaking.

Pre-reading task.

1). Check the meaning of these words in your dictionary.

Vocabulary

I. Use the words from the box to complete the sentences.

cricket	ritual	famous	ground	competitive
central	London	teams	game	club

1. The English are great lovers of ——————-———sports.

2. ———————————is the game peculiarly associated with England.

3. Nearly every village has its cricket club and its own————————-

4. It is a ———————————impossible to describe to foreigners.

5. At times it is not a game but a kind of dignified public———————-

6. Cricket is played between two ———————————of 11 players.

7. The best grounds are in———————————.

8. The most famous is the Marylebone Cricket———————————.

comprehension

I II. Scan for the details.

I 1. Football is played with a a/round, b/elliptical, c/plastic ball.

! 2. In the Middle ages football was played by teams of a/villagers, b/ sailors, c/boys.

i 3. The teams of hundred people struggled to a/ catch a ball, b/ score goals, b/fight.

: 4. The ball was made of the a/ gum, b/ wool, c/ bladder of a pig.

Lilia Podkopaieva from Donetsk became all-round Olympic champion in gymnastics. Kateryna Serebrianska from Simferopol became Olympic champion in women's free-style gymnastics. The Ukrainian school of gymnastics is recognized the world over. In wrestling - Viacheslav Oliinyk, in weight lifting -Timur Taimazov, in boxing - Volodymyr Klychko. Yachtsmen Yevhen Braslavets' and Ihor Matviienko became Olympic champions in sailing, Inesa Kravets in track and field athletics. At the Olympic Games of 2000 in Sidney Yana Klochkova became twice Olympic champion in swimming.

In 1999 Vitalii Klychko, the Wold Champion AVBO/ in boxing won in Germany the single battle with the Champion of Southern America /NAFB/ Ed Mahon. Referee stopped contest due to inability of Ed Mahon to defend himself. Vitalii Klychko proved again his title of the World champion. Among the prominent sportsmen who came from the Ukrainian diaspora are hockey players T. Sawczuk, D. Haverchuk and the American football legend W. Czizhowicz.

Vocabulary

l. Use the words from the box to complete the sentences.

champion	tournament	athlete	track and field	high jump
gymnastics	graceful	gymnasts	wrestler	pommel horse

LA gymnast from Lviv Victor Chukarin /1921-1984/ was first on the__________;____.

2. He was the first Ukrainian ________________.to win the Olympic title.

3. Yakiv Punkin at 31 he became the first Ukrainian _______________.to carry off a gold medal.

4. The outstanding athlete Larysa Latynina, the "first grace" of the_______________.

5. Latynina is one of the brightest stars in _______________.history.

6. The "iron" Shakhlin was idol of all_________________.a man of unbending will and power

7. Yurii Titov became overall World __________________.in 1962.

8. Journalists nicknamed Polina Astakhova, a ______________.gymnast from Donetsk, "a 9. Russian birch-tree». '

9. Volodymyr Holubnychyi. was the first of Ukrainian athletes to carry off a gold Olympic medal. 10 Valerii Brumel was a gold prizewinner in the_______________.

COMPREHENSION