Урок 10

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Being very popular from earlier times and having considerable support among Russians – were Russian folk games with various-sized balls, sticks, bones and stones, including the following popular games.

Gorodki – is a popular game which needed a 50-sm stick which is hurled at a square containing wooden pegs. The aim of the game is to knock with a stick, to various configurations of pegs out of the square.

Lapta – is a game similar to rounder or baseball.

Lunki – is a game in which a ball is rolled along the ground to a hole in some distance away.

Shariki – is a game similar to marbles.

Babki – is a game using bones; one bone is used to knock two or more configurations of bones out of a circle. There are some 40 versions of the game which are currently practiced in Russia.

Kila – is a game played on the left-hand side of a yard. Usually there are 8 or 9 men who play kila. Kila is a leather hair-filled ball, the size of a man’s head. The two sides, the participants and opponents compete with each other. So called “wall-to-wall” game; where a player kicks the ball and tries not to lose it while running to the other side of the field. The aim of the game is to force to put the ball into a “gorod” which is marked by a line. Anyone who breaks the rules has his neck “soaped”. The players shout kila “when the gorod is taken”. This game was evidently a primitive version of a modern football. It was played both in summer and in winter (on ice).

Vocabulary

to hurl a ball	вбрасывать мяч
various-sized	различных размеров
pegs	колышки
rounder	лапта
the size of a man’s head	размером с голову человека
wall-to-wall	стенка на стенку
to have neck soaped	намылить шею
marbles	мраморные шарики

1. Составьте предложения по образцу.

Образец: Gorodki – is a game in which a stick is hurled at a square containing wooden pegs.

football	to get a ball through the net
volleyball is a game in which you try	to knock a ball into a hole
tennis	to kick the ball and try not to lose the bal
kila	to knock a ball into a goal
golf	to knock a ball through some hoops
criket	to hit a ball that your opponent cannot hit

2. Раскройте скобки, употребив соответствующую форму сказуемого.

1) I (to see) a very interesting old game.

2) He (to live) in Spain when he was a child.

3) What you (to do) when Ben phoned?

4) How long you (to know) him?

5) Ann (not to recover) yet.

6) The player (to win) gold medal last year.

3. Вставьте предлоги, где это необходимо.

1) They went … the stadium.

2) We’ve been invited … the sport club.

3) People all over the world are fond … sport.

4) I’d like to learn much … Russian games.

5) Rugby can be called hand football … England.

6) I usually run … the morning but sometimes I (to have) no time.