IV. Answer the following questions.

1. What forms does sport in England take?

Sports in England take a lot of forms: organized sports which attract huge crowds to encourage their favourite team to victory, athletic games played for recreation and others. Some sports are called spectator sports when the number of spectators is greater than the number of people playing the game. Other sports are called participant – sports attracting large crowds only on special occasions such as tournaments.

2. What game is associated with Great Britain?

The game peculiarly associated with England is cricket.

3. What kind of game is golf?

Golf is played in the countryside.

4. What are other spectator sports popular in Britain?

Next to football, the chief spectator sport in Britain is horse-racing. A lot of people are interested in the races and risk money on the horse which they think will win. Britain is also famous for motor-car racing, boat-racing, dog-racing, and even races for donkeys. The famous boat-race between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge attracts large crowds of people.

5. What forms of athletics are wide-spread in England?

Various forms of athletics, such as running, boxing, jumping, swimming are wide-spread in England.

V. Read the dialogue, act it and then try to make a dialogue about popular kinds of sport in Ukraine.

• Good morning, Charlie!

• Good morning, Mike!

• Are you free today?

• Yes, certainly. Today is Sunday and I have nothing special to do.

• In that case I suggest going to the court and to play a game of tennis.

• And in the evening I invite you to visit my parents.

• Thank you very much! I know you are good at playing tennis. When did you begin to play tennis?

• Let me think. I was eight years old when I started to play tennis and now it is my hobby.

• I hear tennis is very popular in Great Britain.

• Oh, yes. Tennis is played all the year round.

• What other outdoor games are popular in Great Britain?

• Football, rugby, golf, cricket.

• What about horse-racing?

• It is one of the most popular sports in Great Britain, then comes swimming and boxing. Are you fond of swimming?

• Yes, I am. I began to swim when I was a little child.

• I think all children in your town are good swimmers because you live on the coast of warm sea.

• Yes, you are right. Almost all my friends are fond of swimming and diving.

VI. Speak on the following:

• What do you think is the most popular sport activity in Great Britain? Why do you think so?

The most popular sport activity in Great Britain is Traditional football or soccer. Nearly 49 million spectators each year attend matches between the great professional teams organized by the Football League. The biggest event in England is the Cup Final played at the Empire Stadium, Wembley, in a London suburb.

• What do you think is more important: to develop professional sports or to pay more attention to the physical culture of all people?

To pay more attention to the physical culture of all people?