Vocabulary to the text:

to sledge – кататися на санчатах

hopscotch – гра в класи

hide-and-seek – хованки

*Exercise 10. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the most popular summer sports?

2. What are the most popular winter sports?

3. What do you do during your Physical training lessons?

4. What kinds of sports do many students of our College go in for?

5. Where do they train themselves?

6. Where do they take part?

7. What games did you play in your childhood?

8. How does sport help people? Does it help them to keep in good health?

9. What are the most popular indoor games?

10. What are the most popular outdoor games?

11. What can you say about physical exercises?

Exercise 11. Which word does not belong to each group? *Explain why as in the example:

Example: soccer, cricket, table tennis, rugby.

Table tennis doesn’t belong to the group because the others are all played on a field or pitch.

1. Swimming, skiing, sailing, canoeing.

2. Running, motor racing, horse racing, sailing.

3. Tennis, volleyball, badminton, baseball.

4. Basketball, table tennis, rugby, cricket.

5. Tennis, volleyball, basketball, American football.

Exercise 12. Read and dramatize the dialogue. Make up your own using this one as a model:

A: What are the most popular sports in your country?

O: To my mind, football, hockey and chess.

A: And what kinds of sport do you go in for?

O: Well, as a matter of fact, I am fond of chess, football, basketball, tennis and a few others.

A.: Oh, are you? But what is your favourite kind of sport?

O.: Probably chess and football are the ones I like best.

A.: Shall we go to the football match next week?

O.: Sure. There will be a very interesting and important game. We really must go. What are the most popular sports in the UK?

A.: Cricket, boat racing, football, fishing, and swimming are the most popular in our country.

O.: Is fishing a sport?

A.: Yes, it is. Fishing or angling is very popular in the UK. There are over 1,000 official angling clubs in our country and their number is growing.

Exercise 13. Answer the following questions filling in the gaps in each line with one of the words given in the boxes:

1) Where do we do/play these sports?

a board a field	a rink a court
a track a pool	a ring a pitch

1. On the : tennis, volleyball.

2. On the : athletics, motor racing.

3. On the : ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating.

4. On the ____: swimming.

5. On the ____: cricket, baseball, soccer, football.

6. On the : American football, cricket.

7. On the : chess, checkers, draughts.

8. In the ___: horse riding.

2) What equipment do we use to play these sports?

a bat a piece a net a racquet a puck a stick gloves

1. We use to play baseball, ice-hockey and to do boxing.

2. We use to play volleyball and tennis.

3. We use ___to play tennis and squash.

4. We use to play ice hockey.

5. We use to play chess; checkers and draughts.

6. We use to play ice hockey.

7. We use to play cricket and baseball.