2. Answer the questions:

1) Are there any games or sports that you watch but don’t play?

2) Are there any games or sports you play/do yourself?

3) Are there any that you are good at?

4) Are there any that you hate?

5) Are there any that are not played much in your country?

6) Which game or sport is the most popular in your country?

7) Which of them is the most dangerous to your opinion?

8) Which game or sport requires the most strength?

9) Which one has the biggest crowds?

3. Discuss various sports (see Unit 1). Use adjectives to act out dialogues, as

In the example.

Exciting fastmoving challenging thrilling relaxing

Competitive dangerous frightening

Risky exhausting demanding

Tiring interesting difficult

E.g. Dialogue 1

– I’d love to try hang-gliding.

– Really? Why?

– I’m sure it would be exciting. What about you?

– No, I wouldn’t like to try hang-gliding. I think it would be too frightening.

– What would you like to try then?

– I think I’ll try tennis there, because….

4. Read and translate the texts. Text 3

Badminton

Badminton is a game where players hit a light ball, called a "shuttlecock", with

a racket over a net. The shuttlecock looks like a small ball with feathers around it,

and the racket looks like a tennis racket, but is smaller and lighter.

In Badminton, there are singles and doubles matches. A Badminton match is

played as "best-of-three," which means that the first person or team to win 2 games

out of three, wins.

One team sends the shuttlecock over to the other side to begin the game; this is

called a "serve". Players then hit the shuttlecock back and forth over the net. They

are only allowed to hit the ball once to get it over the net.

Players win points if they send the shuttlecock over the net, and it lands on the

ground on the other side.

Equestrian

Equestrian is a sport where people ride horses and is the only sport in the

Olympics where men and women compete against each other. Equestrian is

divided into three disciplines: dressage, jumping, and the three-day event.

In the dressage event, the riders have their horses perform certain moves. Some

moves make the horse walk, others make them spin, for example. Some of the

moves even look a little bit like dancing.

In the sport of Fencing, two athletes have a sword fight. The athletes

involved are called fencers and they score points when they touch each other with

their swords. When one fencer touches another, it is called a "hit".

The competition begins when the referee yells out, "En garde!" The fencers use

three types of swords.

So that they don't get hurt, the fencers wear special suits and helmets to protect

themselves. These suits have electric wires in them so that a computer can detect

each hit. The fencer that gets 15 hits first wins the competition. In the team event,

the team that gets 45 hits first wins the competition.

Handball is played on a court with a net at each end. The court is 40 meters

long by 20 meters wide and there is a line dividing it in half. Each team has seven

players who try to score goals by getting the ball into the net. The winning team is

the one with most goals.

The ball itself is pretty small, although it is bigger than a baseball. The players

pass the ball up and down the court by throwing it to each other. Players may run

with the ball, but only if they are bouncing, or "dribbling", it.