V. Work with the dictionary to find the proper form of the words in capitals. Write the

whole text:

All work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy

Many kinds of sports 1) ………… from England. The English have a proverb, “All work and no play 2) ………… Jack a dull boy”. They don’t think that play is 3) ………… important than work; they think that Jack will do his work 4)………… if he plays as well, so he is 5) ………… to do both. Association football, or soccer is one of the games which attracts great 6) ………… . There are plenty of amateur and 7) ………… soccer clubs in every town. Professional soccer is big 8) …………. . The Cup Final played in London is the 9) ………… event of the football season. It takes place every May at the 10) …… …… Wembley stadium. Some of the 11) ………… known clubs in England are Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. In Scotland either Rangers, Celtic or Aberdeen usually win the cup or the 12) ………… .

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VI. Speaking. What sports do they play in Russia? Tell your friend about sports in Great Britain, the USA and Russia:

VII. Prepare the following topics for a discussion:

• People practice sports for at least for two reasons: first, they enjoy it, second, they feel a need to keep fit.

• British like sports especially on TV. They prefer to be fat rather than fit.

• The most popular sport nowadays in Russia / in the USA / in Great Britain / in the world.

• Sport is not for women. It is too dangerous and takes much time. Women’s real sport is chasing men.

VIII. Write a composition on the topic “The importance of sport in our life”.

IX. Translate the piece of text into Russian:

Sport is not just for participants; it’s for spectators too. Millions of people all over the world spend hours every week watching sports events on television, or at stadium. People enjoy being “fans” or supporters of one team or one particular sports personality, and many professionals are now as popular and famous as the greatest Hollywood film stars.

The most popular spectator sport is football. Football is played on a Saturday afternoon in most British towns and the fans of a particular team will travel from one end of the country to the other to watch the match.

The British are great lovers of all competitive sports; and when they are neither playing nor watching games they like to talk about them, or when they cannot do that, to think about them.

X. Translate the text into English:

Многие сегодня согласятся, что спорт играет огромную роль в нашей жизни. Спорт стал не только увлечением, но и способом сохранить себя в форме. Поэтому, многие люди начали заниматься такими видами спорта, как аэробика, бег трусцой, плавание, горные лыжи и др. В каждом городе сегодня можно найти спортивные центры и оздоровительные клубы.

Люди, которые регулярно занимаются спортом, правильно питаются, проводят много времени на свежем воздухе, отказываются от вредных привычек и сидячего образа жизни, надолго сохранят хорошую физическую форму и останутся по-юношески энергичными.

Olympic Games

Olympic games are the greatest international sports games in the world.

The Olympic Games have an interesting and long history. The competitions of athletics took place in Greece in 776 B. C (до нашей эры) and were held every four years for nearly 1200 years at Olympia. So, the most important competition in Olympia were named the Olympic Games. They were only for men.

The Olympic Games were a holiday. They included many kinds of sports: racing, boxing, jumping, horse racing and wrestling.

The Olympic Games became the symbol of Peace and friendship.

In 394 A. D. (нашей эры) the games stopped. Fifteen hundred years later, in 1894, a Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertain, persuaded people from fifteen countries to start the Olympic Games again. The international Olympic Committee was set up and began to work in 1896 and the first of the modern series of games took place in Athens. There were competitions in many kinds of sports: jumping and running, boxing and swimming, football, basketball and others.

At the IV Olympics, in 1908, in London, there were more than two thousand competitors, from twenty-one countries. Since then, the number of athletes competing has increased each time. The International Olympic Committee at Lausanna, in Switzerland, decides where each Olympics will take place.

Summer and winter games are held separately. Winter Olympics first took place in 1924. There were competitions in skiing, skating, ice hockey and etc. Since 1936 the opening ceremony is celebrated by lighting a flame, which is called “the Olympic Flame”.

The Olympic Games were held in the cities of Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Our country joined the Olympic Movement in 1952.

The 22d Olympic Games were held in Moscow in 1980 (from July 19 to August 3). Many athletes, guests, journalists came to Moscow, it was for the first time that the Olympic games were held in our country. Our Russian sportsmen won 80 gold, 69 silver 46 bronze medals during these games.

The 2012 Olympic Games will probably be held in Moscow again.

Answer the questions:

1. Are the Olympic Games the greatest international sports game in the world?

2. Have these games got a long history?

3. What competitions did the first Olympic Games include?

4. How often are Olympics held?

5. The Olympic games became a symbol of peace, didn’t they?

6. When was the International Olympic Committee set up?

7. Where were the Olympic Games held?

8. Where were the 22d Olympic Games held?

9. When did Russia join the Olympic Movement?